Ever have those days where you just want to eat? You know you’re not hungry, but feel like munching? That was me today. After grabbing a small bowl of cereal, a pear and a handful or two of trail mix I made some popcorn and decided this would be my last snack of the day. I used to be obsessed…
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Happy Friday!
I don’t know if I mentioned it earlier, but this week and next I am working for my old job from California. They needed some help and I can telecommute, so I have been a busy bee! I worked for a recruiting company in CA through most of college and stayed on board full time for a while after graduating…
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Beans and Sweet Potatoes
I finally combined my two loves beans and sweet potatoes! My mom says sweet potatoes were my favorite baby food and I have been raised on beans, so it only makes sense. Caitlin has sworn by this combo, but I was hesitant to try it since I didn’t think I liked baked beans. Well, turns out I LOVE this combo!…
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Diet Coke and Red Hair
How the heck does Natalie Dee manage to create cartoons exactly for this red-headed blogger with an obsession for Diet Coke? I am once again amazed by her awesomeness… This one is titled: “Nooo Don’t Drink It” nataliedee.com The second pic isn’t working, but it’s here: http://www.nataliedee.com/archives/2010/May/ Lunch: Massive Salad!!! Because I am in love with them right now. Look…
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Banana Bread French Toast
What do you do when you baked a delicious loaf of banana bread, but know it’s just going to “disappear” on the counter with countless “little” bites? Make Banana Bread French Toast! This way you can actually savor it. Plus, it’s an excuse to pour syrup on something. I dipped the leftover bread slices in an egg mixture of: 2…
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Cinco De Mayo ‘10
This post title has nothing to do with anything I did or ate today. I feel ashamed that I’m not celebrating my people’s remembrance of the battle of Puebla. This is not Mexican Independence Day (Sept. 16). Ha, I just found this website Mexonline for more info. I want to change my website to MonicatheMexonline… What do you think? I…
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Boxing Before Work
This morning I hit up LA Boxing for a Kickboxing class. I was excited to finally put my gloves to use! So far all I’ve done with them is put them on and jump around… I met a few reps from LA Boxing at Fitbloggin and they offered to let me work out for free if I blog about it….
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Banana Bread
I had four super ripe bananas that were screaming to be made into banana bread. Actually, one of them abandoned ship and fell off my banana hammock it was so ripe! This is an old pic of my banana hammock with ripe naners, to illustrate the fact that I like saying banana hammock… Even though my banana hammock is not…
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And that’s okay
Yesterday I hit up the Starbuck in Target for an iced tea. I have said this before, but I have a drinking problem – I chug everything. I really should have entered more beer chugging contests in college because I would have created quite the reputation. I need to be careful with calorie filled drinks because of my chugging problem….
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