new laptop and yummy oats!

July 17, 2009 by 2 Comments

I am posting from my new laptop!  Yipee!  The top pretty much fell off of the old one and the keyboard completely comes off.  It was time to bite the bullet and get a new one!  My old laptop still works and I will probably keep it, but keep it stationary and on the desk in the office until it just completely disintegrates.  Can you tell I don’t like to throw stuff away?  I tend to be a bit of a packrat sometimes, lol.  Plus my new laptop is a netbook and its kinda small so I want to keep the old one around in case I need to do something that requires a bigger screen.

But my netbook isn’t just any ole netbook!  Most netbooks have only about 150GB hard drive and 1G memory but this one has a 250GB hard drive and 3G ram!  Woot!  It’s about the same as my old laptop storagewise but it’s SO much faster!  So I will be able to run Office for any papers that I will need to write for school as well as put all of my music and pictures on it!  PLUS, I will be able to carry it around in my bag at school because it only weighs TWO pounds!!  And the school has wireless internet all over campus so I can just pull it out any time I need to use it and hop on the internet.  Can you tell I’m really excited?  I have something I can carry around with me and I can start saving up for a full size laptop for when my old laptop finally completely falls apart.

My new laptop!

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Compared to the size of my hand.  Little, huh?  It’s not quite as small as most netbooks, though- the screen is 11.2 inches, most are 8-10 inches.

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Anywhoo… I pretty much spent all afternoon playing around with the new laptop, then Justin and I went put for dinner to use a gift card that we got for our birthdays.  It was for Applebees.  I’m not a huge fan, but a free meal is a free meal, right?  And it was a really thoughtful gift!  I got some grilled tilapia.  It was actually pretty good, I was pleasantly surprised.  I don’t necessarily like the chain restaurants and I envy all of the people that live in places that have really cool local restaurants.  We just don’t have stuff like that around here.  Those local little restaurants just don’t last around here, so we’re stuck with stuff like Chili’s, Applebees, Red Lobster, and every fast food place you could ever think of.  It gets really frustrating that there aren’t any places that we can go to get a really good healthy meal!

So that brings us to today!

This morning was OATS!  And they were awesome oats at that! 

In my oats this morning… 

  • 1/4 cup oats
  • 1/4 cup oat bran
  • 1/2 cup vanilla almond milk
  • 1/2 cup water
  • 1/2 banana

Toppings…

  • spoonful of almond butter
  • sprinkle of coconut
  • sprinkle of chocolate chips

yum yum yum!!

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Time for lunch- I’m starving!

Later!

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gah!

July 15, 2009 by Leave a Comment

What a day!  I typed out half of this post earlier today about how nothing was going on and life was boring, etc…  But then crazy-ness ensued!  lol, well not really, but for as little as I have going on right now it was my version of crazyness.  So it turns out that my financial aid was approved after all for school next year!  Woohoo!  I thought that I wasn’t going to be able to get anything at all and some money came through after all!!!!  What a total relief to have school taken care of.  Now I won’t have to worry continuously about money next year and I can focus on school.  Now we won’t have to be stressed and Justin won’t have to get a second job (he’s been talking about it, but I won’t let him.  His job is hard enough and he works such long hours as it is) and I won’t have to try to work and  go to school full time at the same time.  I can just focus on studying and getting kickass grades so that I can get into the internship of my choice and the master’s program that I want.   Whew! 

I’m soooo excited for school to get started that I feel giddy!

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I had a fun little field trip yesterday- Sam Moon!!  I had never been, but there’s been one in Fort Worth for like 2 yrs.  It’s just purses/costume jewelry/kitschy type stuff, but I don’t really like to spend a ton on jewelry and the likes so it’s right up my alley.

Look at what I got!

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A thingie to hang my purses on.  They’re all shoved in a corner in the back of my closet and I honestly don’t even know how many or what I have!

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Can you even believe I got this little lunchbox for $10.95?!  These are almost $30 on the BUILT website!  When I got home I was looking at it I realized that it was priced wrong, which is why it was only 10 bucks.  The price tag said that it was a camera case.  Oh well!

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Clippies!  I lose these things so fast it’s not even funny.  It’s like they just disappear!

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Fun earrings!  And also that little pair of studs in the background- I needed some for every day wear.

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Another clippie!  This one has a little decoration on it- fancy!

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Fancy elastic hair band thing.  I forsee lots of poytails seeing that some days I will be getting up around 4 am to make it to a 8am class (stupid commutes in stupid rush hour traffic!)

That’s all, I found a couple of purses that I really wanted and they were extremely reasonably priced, BUT I decided that first I should take inventory of what I already have and see if I actually need another purse or not.  I can always go back and get one, but their return policy isn’t that great- store credit only. 

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Today’s breakfast was fun!  I’ve had this almost empty jar of Barney Butter for months but I didn’t want to throw it away because it seemed so wasteful (that stuff is like 10 bucks a jar!).  I saw on a blog somewhere that someone had put their oats into the almost empty jar and the PB melted right in.  Oh WOW was this a great idea!!  AND I didn’t have to waste any Barney Butter!

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In my oats…

  • 1/4 cup oats
  • 1/4 cup oat bran
  • 1/2 banana
  • 1/2 cup almond milk
  • 1/2 cup agua   

cuppa joe!

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It was so filling, I couldn’t even finish it all!

Then I worked on paying bills.   Blech!  And my internet was so awesomely slow that it took like two hours to get it all done/checkbook balanced!  Sheesh.  After that I needed a nice long bath.   After that I was feeling kinda lazy so I lounged around for a bit and watched some I Love Lucy re-runs.

Then it was lunch time!  My version of a “cheeseburger” salad:

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  • organic spring mix
  • radish
  • tomato
  • honey mustard
  • Amy’s Texas Burger, chopped up on top
  • sprinkle of sharp cheddar

SO GOOD!

Then the news about the financial aid came through so I had TONS of paperwork that I had to do.  It took forever and I’ve pretty much just now finished.

So much for the day that I had planned.  I was going to clean up and organize around the house today, but it didn’t really work out.  Ah well.  Now I don’t feel like cleaning.  My tummy is weird so I’m going to have some peppermint tea and see if that helps.  We shall see.

Later!

 

 

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Pecan Pie Cookies

July 12, 2009 by Leave a Comment

I have no idea where the original recipe for these came from.  It was one of those recipes that I randomly found on the internet one day and printed it off.  I’ve had it forever and have been meaning to try them.  This recipe I am posting I have adapted a bit from the original recipe and you can change it to fit your taste as you please.  These taste just like pecan pie Larabars!!

 

Ingredients:
3/4 cup pecans
1/4 cup almonds
1 cup pitted dates
1 tsp cinnamon

Directions:
Put nuts in food processor and grind until it forms crumbs.  Add dates and cinnamon and pulse until it forms a consistency that will stick together.  (You may need to add a tsp of water if it’s not sticking together).

Form into balls (I got 14 of them, but you can do whatever size you want and make them bigger or smaller).

You could leave them in balls or smoosh them flat to look like a cookie (up to you).  Put them on some wax paper and pop into the freezer or fridge until they are firm.

Enjoy!

Nutrition Information (for a batch with 14 cookies):

Serving size- 1 cookie
Calories- 88
fat- 5.6g

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Fa-fa-fa-riday

July 10, 2009 by 1 Comment

Happy Friday!

I could NOT sleep last night!  It’s weird because around 10:00 I started getting sleepy, so I read a little and headed to bed around 10:30ish.  As soon as I went to bed I was suddenly wide awake!  I tossed and turned for about an hour or so before I gave up and went to the living room.  I planned out some meals for next week and made a grocery list, then red some more.  By this time it was around 4:00 and I was still wide awake.  I just gave up and went back to bed.  I think I might have finally fallen asleep around 4:30 or so.  Then I woke up wide awake around 8 (I can’t usually sleep when there’s light outside).  I can already feel myself dragging, and not getting much sleep always upsets my tummy for some reason, so I already feel that coming on and a headache as well.  Sick

So I went ahead and got up around 8:30 or so and grabbed something to eat.  I was so hungry I didn’t really have the patience to wait to make something so I grabbed an awesome Blueberry Muffin that I made the other day (I’m going to have to make some more, we’re out!  Hubby declared this the best blueberry muffin that he has EVER had.  You should have seen his face when he took the first bite- it was like it was Christmas or something, LOL)

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Then I made a big ole pot of coffee Coffee-cup Coffee-cup Coffee-cup (I’m pretty sure I’ll need it today!)

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A little bit later I made a piece of Ez 4:9 raisin bread with BUTTER.  This bread is good without butter, but SOOOO good with it!  Mmmmmmm…butter!  (BTW- there’s nothing wrong with a little butter, so long as your not eating the whole stick like Paula Dean)

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I better ramp up the fruits and veggies later today cause that’s a pretty carb-a-licious breakfast! lol

 

Right now I’m about to grab the Duvet cover out of the dryer, finish changing the sheets, grab a little lunch (an Amy’s Texas Burger, baked chips, and a piece of fruit of some sort), then I’m going to head to the grocery store for this weeks groceries.  I usually go on Saturdays, but tomorrow we’re having lunch/dinner with Justin’s family so I won’t have time to go tomorrow.  No biggie, I didn’t really have much planned for today.

Laters!

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