I’m taking part in the digestion process, so later on today i can have Turkey Day leftovers! yum yum!
I hope everyone enjoyed their day with amazing friends and family with the most scrumptious food!
I’m workin black friday a little later, so wish me luck! If your going shopping today be careful!!!!!!
I love that it feels like Friday, but really its Wednesday!!!!!
I’m in such a good mood, an its only 8:47 in the a.m an i’m the only one up besides my mom, and i haven’t even talked to anyone yet! I am in love with the holiday’s and i wish it was Thanksgiving and Christmas season all year round!!!! Anyone else feel the same way??
Per yesterday’s morning video, i mentioned that my camera is pretty much in the shits (sorry for my french) so yes pictures will be far and in-between. I apologize to the max! I’m hoping to improve my writing skills and describe all the scrumptious meals that i sunk my teeth in yesterday.
Breakfast went a little like this. A rich creamy strawberry yogurt with chunks of real fruit inside, mixed in with a subtly sweet crunchy Fiber One cereal. I mixed it in and spooned it straight into my speaker!
Lunch was not even speak worthy, since it was thrown together in a mere 3 minutes. Dinner though, was a salad creation! We had a leftover chicken breast from the other night, so what i did was cut it up in chunks and threw it on top of my bed of crisp romaine lettuce, gorgeous red peppers, crunchy cummbers, and spicy red cabbage (yes i do think that red cabbage has a slight spice to it). I dressed this fab salad with red wine vinegar and a little bit of EVOO! I assure you i shoveled it into my mouth, and enjoyed it MUCHO!
Yes i looked like this after! My skin has a healthy glow..NO? hehe
So let me tell you a little story (as if i haven’t overloaded this post with words already) Yesterday while on my way to my last class of the day, i was talkin to sissy on the mobile, and she had told me that she had a surprise for me. I got all giddy cause i LOVE surprises! She was babysitting and i new she was going to be late, so i new i wasn’t going to get it till this morning. Welllllllll, to my surprise the second i walked into my living room where the TV is, in my spot (i have my “certain” tv spot where i sit EVERYTIME) was THIS!!!!!
YES YES YES!!!! thats right! its the new issue of O magazine with ELLEN on the cover! i had been looking for this forever and had no luck finding it! I actually squealed and gasped when i saw it! Reason number 234985047 why i love my sissy!!!
THANK YOU!!!!! (she’ll probably read this later today!)
Alrighty, i believe i’ve rambled on enough!
I want to know Thanksgiving plans from each of you!!? Give me the Dish!?
xoxox
I’m not lying, but come monday every week without fail, i always long for friday to come so that the weekend begins, but this week i’m only thinking about Thursday!
This weekend was awesome!!! It was my sissy’s BIRTHDAY (Fri Nov 20th) She turned the big 25!!! (let me please note, i began writing this post on friday, but WordPress was giving me trouble an being all weird, so i gave up, which is the reason this is going up now!)
My sister is very important to me. Her and I are 3 years apart, but sometimes i feel like we could be twins (people tell us we look like twins, so why not) We’ve shared a room since i was born, and seriousy have only been apart for 2 years while she was away at college. I couldn’t imagine not having her around. When she’s not at home or away for a period of time, i miss her. We do basically everything together and i wouldn’t have it any other way!
She is my muse and inspiration. She inspires me to push myself in school, she was the one who inspired me to run a half marathon and my first 5K race, and the one who tells me to go for my dreams!
I want to share a “look back” of some of the stuff we’ve done together this past year!
To start off, here is a picture of the 2 of us from her 24th birthday from last year
This is pre-drinking, so we both look normal..heheh
here we are at Chili’s restaurant taking part in all you can eat chips and salsa while watching our basketball team The Pistons. They lost that night. lol
This is our 5K race group. From left to right we have Sissy, Laura, Eddie (my cousin), and myself! This was my first race ever back in May.
Here are a few photos from an event that we attended in June. It was the Capuchin Soup Kitchen event that was sponsored by my aunts family jewelry store that her family owns.
Do ya dig the face i’m givin. Lets just say i had a few beers in me so far!
We attended a baseball game together this year and got the chance to stair at an amazingly hott boy, to watch the game from amazing seats!
She helped me celebrate my 21st and 22nd birthday
That would be my sissy, my momma in the middle with her eyes closed, and yours truely. were at a bar drink a linkin for my 21st!
Obvi 22 i look more mature right?!?! haha
Here we are infront of the race trail for our big Half Marathon! (sorry for the photo being so dark)
You can read about that Here if you want to brush up.
There are so many other pictures that i could post and talk about, but i just wanted to give you the highlights. I love my sister more then anyone in the world! I’m not sure what i would do without that lady! Make sure to tell your brothers and sisters you love them!!!!
xooxoo
This title is the facebook status that I had put up almost 23 hours ago! (i edited the time because i started writing this last night) Truth be told, I was right, and yesterday really was a GREAT DAY!
Lets get started. After i left you yesterday morning i got very productive lazy and sat around the house doing various things. I mainly was waiting for sissy to get home from work cause i was sort of bored by myself. Her and I had baking planned for the evening so at-least i had something to look forward to! Sooner or later i started to get hungry for lunch, so i high tailed it to the kitchen.
I new i wanted a salad, but for some reason i was feeling adventurous and wanted to get risky! I was craving a banana, so i made sure i incorporated it into my lunch.
You might ask, “Did you eat it whole?” “put it on bread?” “smash it up?”…..well here’s your answer
yea thats right! i put that nanner right into my salad. If your gagging at the thought as your reading, i promise you i survived the meal and throughly each bite!
I love fruit in salads, from apples, to dried canberries, grapes, you name it i’m pretty sure i would like it! Bananas are something you rarely find in a salad, so i thought what the heck i’m going to try it out. As we all know, nanners have a very soft texture and will smash quiet easily, but that was ok with me. I love how it incorporated into the dressing and different spices that i had put. I used a mixture of red wine vinegar and Worcestershire yesterday and it was DELICIOUS! Try it for yourself and report back, i promise i wouldn’t lie! If you didn’t think i was weird before, i’m pretty sure you think so now!
After i enjoyed my lunch i pretty much went back to do the same thing. I am pretty much queen of vegging out on the couch and doing next to nothing. Don’t judge 
hehe
A little later on into the day, say around 3ish i think, I had been e-mailing my favorite Canadian friend Jocelyn. I had recently won a giveaway that she had and she was worried that i hadn’t gotten her package. well at the time i hadn’t, but seriously 20 minutes after e-mailing her, i get a knock on the door from the mail lady (yes we have a lady, not a man) and look what she brought
I seriously yelped with joy! I was sooo excited!!! I could smell all the delicious things lingering inside! This girl seriously spoiled me to the max, and i love her to death!!!!! Thanks again Jocelyn! xoxo…Let me show you whats inside so you can drool over your computer screens!
Let me note, that it took me a good 15 minutes to rip into the package, that girl really knows how to wrap! I did a number to it.
anyhoots.
(so excited to read this)
I’ve never been more excited to shower. When i was trying to open the package, i could seriously smell how amazing these were. If you thought that was it, your in for a treat. (i do need to note that my camera is a piece of CRAP (caps are totes necessary for this) and some of my pictures didnt come out so i’ll give as much as i can salvage)
umm yes i’m not lying. I’m still speechless. You might hurt me after this next statement, but i haven’t dried any of these bars before, so trust me i’m like more happy then EVER!
most excited about these! An i’ll for sure to write reviews as i try these, certainly because they’ll all be first timers!
Look how cute these little mini cliff bars are! EEEEK, sissy i know is jealous cause she LOVES cliff bars, i just might have to share!!!
Chocolate Brownie = yes please!!!!
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for the millionth time Jocelyn, i seriously am so happy!
If that doesn’t make your day good, then i’m not sure what else will. Because i new that there was more goodness to come, my happy high didn’t ware off. Momma called me on my cell at around 4 to tell me that she was taking me and sissy out for dinner for my sissy’s Birthday that just happens to be tomorrow! (more on that tomorrow of course) She took us to our favorite middle eastern restaurant Sahara. Most amazing food ever! We ordered a small hummus for the table, and i ordered a fattoush salad with grilled chicken. Lets just say i left with a smile on my face, and a belly full of awesome food!
When we got home, sissy and i got to baking. She wanted to make cupcakes for her little kids that she works with for her b-day! Isn’t that nice! We made vanilla fudge cupcakes with milk chocolate frosting! Of course we each had to have one to make sure they weren’t poisoned. ;) I was lucky to have a whole chocolate one with the extra fudge batter
I got this image from google, but mine seriously looked identical. It was AMAZING!
So while this all was happening, our Friend Aj came over to enjoy these little cakes and we talked for a while. After a while we all said goodbye and to the bedroom to slumber i went!
DAY OVER!
Can it be tomorrow again!? hehe.
No ladies, not my husbad Brad (which i forgot to tell you, i’m newly Mrs. Cooper..hehe)
But its this young lad
Mr. Johnny Depp himself.
Your welcome for showing you sexy men in the A.M.
I felt like i slept like a rock last night, which is great! Usually my bed is so uncomfortable (little secret, when my sissy isn’t home (her and i share a room) i sleep in her bed cause its so much more comphy..hehe) I think i’ll start believing that its hers and maybe that’ll do the trick!
This morning i slowly sipped on my java..per usual.
I think i’m going to use my smaller cups for mornings that i’m home, because for some reason i can never finish it without it getting cold.
Without a doubt i just got a bowl of yogurt and cereal
with a side of cell phone!
I’m watchin the Today Show and they just showed the most amazing brown over the knee boots and i want them, so i’m on the way to hunt them down! hehe.
I hope i don’t blow away today from the heavy wind, so hopefully drinkin my cup will help!!!
Hope everyone has a MARVELOUS Tuesday!
Today started off pretty blah due to my sour stomach issues, but it slowly but surely started to look up. I’m not sure what caused my issues, but whatever, i’m just glad its over!
I forgot to photograph lunch, but don’t worry it was just salad
I got sucked into watchin reruns of Project Runway, somehow i can’t get my eyes off that show once i start watching!! So you know, its my dream to make it onto that show! I can wish big right??
After i convinced myself that i needed to do something worthy with my day i decided that a run sounded like fun! It was only about 50 degrees outside, sort of windy and not even that nice, but i new i wanted to get out there, even if it wasn’t that long. So I pushed my booty off the couch and went and changed. It felt good to put my shoes back onto my feet
I’ve only been out on a handful of runs since the big half marathon, which you can read about here. The moment i stepped outside I was freezing, but i sucked it up and just started running. I didn’t have a specific distance or anything i wanted to reach so i just went for it. Because i’m a big baby, i ended up getting colder then i thought i would so i just went out for a short 2 mile run.
I felt amazing after. Yes even though it was a rather short distance, i didn’t care. From all the rest I have taken from running i feel such a difference with my legs. I no longer have as much discomfort with my knees like i was experiencing in the past, i now realize how great it feels to run pain free! I was feelin AWESOME. Check out this shirt i wore today
During the election last year, at my work we were able to make shirts for the things we believed in, so i chose to vote for TRUE LOVE! I thought it really fit! I wear this all the time and i smile each time because the message is just so comforting. Someday i hope to find true love Sorry i’m gettin so sappy! hehe
Dinner tonight was the normal chicken dinner with veggie and salad.
Check out this clump of fresh garlic that was left on the salad bowl
Yea, you bet i put that on my plate and put it on a piece of bread and ate it right up!
I had date night with one of my best friends tonight. We’ve been bf’s since high school and we’ve always been close. I haven’t seen her though for a while, but its that type of friendship where even if we don’t talk or see eachother for a few weeks, the second we do its like we just saw eachother yesterday! I love her so much, it was such a fun evening! She even gave me a new brand of popcorn to try out tonight
Have you ever had this brand before?? Its endorsed by Weight Watchers and is only 1 point per serving. I ate the entire bag and according to my friend it comes out to 2.5 points for the entire bag. I’m the type of person who can’t just eat one serving of a bag of popcorn, never have never will. What about you?? Can you have just one serving, or are you like me and have the whole bag?? I usually just have the 94% fat free popcorn but this was an awesome change and i really liked it!
To top off the evening, about 10 minutes ago I finished half off a banana that sissy didn’t finish from breakfast.
Well girls. Jon and Kate is on, which i shouldnt even watch because its going to make my blood pressure rise, from all the ridiculousness of the whole show anymore, but because i’m addicted i must go watch!!!
Why is it so hard for me to kick the habit!? Momma told me she was on the way to Kroger last night to pick a few things up and asked if i had needed anything. Before i could even think about what was coming out of my mouth, i blurted out SPLENDA! SAY WHAAAAAT!?? Will i ever kick the habit!!? Ok rant now over!
If you would like a cup of coffee, its over on the table getting cold, you better go grab it!
Um seriously??? This my friends is the kind of photography my camera is allowing me to take. Reason number 298375q98745 why i need a new camera! (Lo Siento, such an ugly photo)
This morning I for some reason am experiencing a real bad sour stomach. I’m not sure what it could be caused from but it sure isn’t doing much for me. Sissy also got sent home from work today because she had a fever!? So odd because last night she felt fine! I hope she’s ok! K didn’t feel well either this weekend, so i hope us Michiganders are not coming down with something. Fingers crossed!!
I was able to pull a few of the foodie pics I was able to capture in the past couple days, so i did want to share with you
Cucumber sammies that i had 2 days in a row. Made with TJ’s whole wheat pita’s, and mustard to top, and raw zucchini fries.
A veggielicious dinner with a side of chicken. Remember this sea creature??
yea it made an appearance again the other night and it tasted just as good! To note, i found out its name, Its called Kambucca (spelling i’m not sure is right…pronounce it “CAM-BU-KA” <——- I hope that helps and you understand, cause quite frankly i’m confusing myself!
i hope these pics make up for lost time! :)
Anyhooters, Ellen has been on for the last 16 minutes and i need to focus. I still yet to get the new O magazine but i’m still crossing my fingers that i get it! I want to do one last plead, but Ellen if your watching I NEED to come to your show! :) Thanks!
Alrighty babes, i’m going to go mend to my stomach problems (tmi perhaps), and have me a bowl of this
(note this photo was taken the other day when the sun actually wanted to come out, sadly today it is not 
)
Question: Has it started to snow by you yet??? MI has not had its first snow fall, and i’m both happy and sad about that because i have a love hate relationship with the white stuff. I love it cause its so pretty, but i hate it because i refuse to drive in it!
I know i know, another weekend that i haven’t posted, but again i’m going to blame that icky camera of mine. Camera Gods if your listening, Lizzy needs a new one for chirstmas and she would love you forever and ever!!!!!
How was your weekends? Please tell me the details. please and thanks!!!!
Aside from the lack of my picture taking i did have some good meals including dinner out at California Pizza Kitchen Friday night! Have you been there??
I had their Grilled Veggie salad!!! Grilled veggies in a salad is basically music to my ears, and i know you all know that about me! It comes with a balsamic dressing, but because the veggies are cooked with a little bit of oil, to me that provides enough of a “dressing” so i just get it on the side and don’t use it. Friday also was a huge shopping day for sissy and i(which i will show you what i got tomorrow). Her and i had been shopping for HOURS, and by hours, i mean like 6 hours, so by the time we sat down and ate we were STARVING! Needless to say i inhaled my dinner in a mere 10 minutes flat!
Saturday was a day full of nothingness and not worth talking about. As for today, i haven’t really done a whole lot, but I just got back from having frozen yogurt with one my of close friends who I would like to take the time out to talk about.
The title of my post is Better, and its that for a reason. This certain friend of mine and I lost contact for a couple months and it really just started to get to me. we used to be inseprable and it went from that to almost next to nothing. Well last night something clicked inside me and i new that i had to take matters into my own hands and fix a mess that i created. To make a long story short, we sat and talked for over and hour, and i finally feel like ME again. I feel all is good in the world, and i finally have my bff back! Have you ever had a “mini” falling out with someone but then fix the problem and you just feel on top of the world after?? I only hope for the best in the coming months because i have felt not like myself lately, and i know that having her back into my life puts that pep back into my world!
Ok have i bored you?? I had to get that out, and i feel better now!
Thank you everyone for being such great friends to me! I don’t think i’ve said it enough, but i appreciate each one of you so very much. If i had known i was going to make this many friends because of blogging, gosh darn i would have started a long time ago! I love you each!!!!
ps. i promise a regular blogging schedule will be in form asap!!!!
Salad.Diva
