OMG what a day!!  This may have been one of the longest days ever.  I left the house around 6 this morning with a to-go breakfast in hand…

PB&J!  (The Bees Knees PB with strawberry preserves)

and an apple

This did NOT keep me full for very long. :(  I was hungry again by the time I got to school.  I spent most of my day with my stomach growling (I blame the hormones araging right now).  I hate those days where you feel like you’re hungry all.day.long.

So I had Chemistry lab at 8:00.  I do NOT like my schedule this semester.  We were done around 9 so I ran some errands and went to have coffee/do some reading at Panera.  I just kindof hung out there and read until lunchtime (my next class didn’t start until FOUR O’CLOCK!  See what I mean about my schedule sucking?  And I can’t really afford to go home in between with the commute. )

Lunch was a salad from Chipotle (tomorrow I’m going to start bringing my lunch/snacks.)

Look at this yumm salad!

On my salad I got…

• black beans
• corn salsa
• pico de gallo
• guacamole (I took off most of that guac, it was waaaay too much!)

The salad was really really really good.  Buuuut, I was hungry again in about 2 hrs.

Then I had more time to kill until my next class.  So I went to the library and read in my textbook and printed out some powerpoint stuff for my food prep class tomorrow.

Then I went to Intro to Nutrition.  It was good; I think I’m going to enjoy the class!

I’m just so exhausted I think I’m going to just call it an evening.  I have a story to share from my nutrition class but I’ll wait till tomorrow since I’m so exhausted.  I’m running off just a couple of hrs of sleep.

It is now time for bed!  Night!!

Well, today was my first day back to school as a full time student again!  I got up sooooo early to get to school this morning (I’ve been so lazy this summer that I forgot what it feels like to be up and at em so early).

I started the day off with a filling breakfast.  This always keeps me full for a good 5 hrs.

Strawberry Chobani with chia seeds, flax seeds, 2 T granola and some strawberries.

Then it was off to school.  The commute already sucks, and it’s just the first day of school.  The drive is somewhere around 1 hr to 1hr 10 mins.  But with a coffee stop and the parking nightmare that this school is I was glad I gave myself 2 hrs to get there because I ended up walking in just as class was starting.  Yeesh!  It took me a good 20 minutes to find a parking spot for crying out loud!

Anyway, I had statistics and chemistry today.  In statistics, he pretty much just read the syllabus to us and then let us go.  But in chemistry she was raring to go and she flew through the first TWO chapters today!  I’m surprised there wasn’t a fire started from the pencils and pens scribbling on paper as we frantically tried to write down all the information she was plowing through.  I also found out that I bought the wrong book.  Oops!

After that I was done.  A two hour trip for that. 

Next I headed to Panera to have a salad and to use their wi-fi.  I left my camera at home this morning so I don’t have any pictures, but I got the asian chicken salad and it was so pretty.  It was a shame I forgot my camera!  I also updated my microsoft word (upgraded to 2007), checked on the status of the rest of my textbooks in transit, and bought a cool memory card for my camera that will upload my pictures right to my computer through my wireless internet.  Pretty sweet, huh?

Then there was a quick Target run for a new calculator and then on to the house!

Once I got home I was a good student and did a little reading for chemistry, then started a new fun book.  The next in the sookie stackhouse series.  Oh what fun!

Then DINNER!!

I tried a recipe out of my new Hatch Chile cookbook.  It was called August Pasta- what a fitting dish for the last night of August, right?!

It was basically a sauce of pureed hatch chiles with a little garlic, some bell pepper and some half and half(not much, just enough for a little creamy-ness).  Topped with a little grated parm cheese!

Served with a slice of toasted

sourdough- delish!

Now I’ve got some cleaning up to do and I’m hitting the hay super early because I have a 4:30 am wakeup call tomorrow- eek!

Night!!

Holy moly, these last couple of days have been so busy!  I haven’t had time to post at all!  Instead of catching up I’m just going to start fresh with today.  BUT before I do that, I have to talk about chile fest day uno!

So after I spent about an hour peeling, de-gutting, and storing about 5 pounds of roasted hatch chiles I was ready to try to cook with some of them!

I have a Hatch chile cookbook, but I kidna decided to branch out on my own this first time.

So I took some lean ground turkey, cooked it up and let it cool off just a tad.  Then I stirred in some big spoonfuls of salsa and a big handful of red. fat cheese.  Then I stuffed it in the chiles.  Then sprinkled a little more cheese on top and put it in the oven till the cheese was all melty and yum.

The result…

So simple and SO delicious!!  If you don’t have access to the Hatch chiles, you could do this with a pablano pepper(they’re very mild).  Try this, it’s awesome!!!

So that brings me back to today!

This morning I whipped up some AWESOME french toast.  My best so far!  Then we topped our frenchy toast with strawberries, blueberries, and a drizzle of agave nectar.  SO.GOOD.

You should try this too.  It’s so easy to make french toast in a healthy way!

Then lunch is the best turkey sandwich I’ve possibly ever had! (I must be channeling my inner Julia Child lately, since I’ve been reading My Life In France, lol)

Look at this work of art!

Roasted Turkey Breast, sharp New York Cheddar, a little Olive Oil mayo, and a big handful of spinach!

Served with some baby carrots.

Not sure what’s on the agenda for the rest of the day, but I know it will involve lots of my allergy eye drops!  My eye allergies have gone haywire.  There was something in the air last night at my cousin’s wedding (which was super cool, btw- they had a mashed potato bar!  It was set up like a sundae bar, really cool!).  Anyway there was something I was allergic to (besides the aggies, lol- the wedding was in College Station)  My eyes are so puffy and killing me, bah!

Anyhoo!  I’m thinking we may do pizza for dinner tonight.  It may involve some more of our Hatch Chiles!!

It’s that time of year again!  The Hatch Chile’s have arrived from New Mexico and it’s a pretty big deal (at least in our house, lol).  It only happens once a year (they’re harvested in late July), so we have to stock up whilst we can.

So we got some roasted Hatches.

As well as some fresh ones.

And some other products with Hatch Chiles in them…

Salsa

Sourdough bread

And the piece de resistance…a cookbook!! 

I’m going to go back this weekend and get more chiles to stockpile in my freezer because there are TONS of recipes in there that I HAVE to try!

While we were there we grabbed a  few more things that struck our fancy.

pretty gerbers!

Some awesome juices (they juice them right there in front of you!)

Orange/pineapple

Orange/Carrot

And a few other things I didn’t take pics of.  (a pineapple, some pears, and some blueberries)

We also went SHOE SHOPPING!  Hubby was desperately in need of some new shoes for work, his were starting to look pretty ragged.  And I snagged a pretty cute pair of boots!  Slouchy and comfy and way cute!

And a trip to Borders for another book (the next in the Sookie Stackhouse series).  I think I keep them and Barnes and Noble in business.

Then HOME for dinner.

Leftover turkey burgers (from last night) on our new hatch chile sourdough (toasted of course!)

Delishhh!

Whew!  I’m beat.  This morning before all of the shopping madness I drug my booty out of bed around 4:45.  I had to take my grandmother for a colonoscopy.  Who schedules something like this so early in the morning?!  I haven’t gotten up that early in a loooong time and I didn’t sleep well at all last night.  I’m beat, I think it’s time for bed!

Night!

Like this!

Holy freaking crap!!  That’s not even that many books and I’m only taking 4 classes.  This is ridiculous.  I am taking four of them back though because I ended up finding them on amazon.com for much cheaper.  I’ll be saving about $200 this way.  So $800 for books this semester.  It still seems redic!  I haven’t ever had to pay this much for books before, it blows my mind.  I’m now glad that I went ahead and got financial aid instead of paying for everything out of pocket.  There’s no way I could afford this otherwise.

Sooooenyways…

I woke up early this morning, but I didn’t really feel like getting up so I read for a while.  I was reading the third book in the Sookie Stackhouse series.  And I couldn’t put it down.  I ended up finishing the whole thing this morning (and I bought it at 5:00 last night!)  I DEVOUR books, it’s like a disease or something, lol!

Then I got up and had a quick little breakfast.  I didn’t really have an appetite, but I was shaking and my tummy was hurting so I knew I needed something to eat.  Does anyone else get weird symptoms when they get too hungry?  I shake like mad and feel like I’m going to barf, which really doesn’t make me want to eat anything.  I try not to ever get too hungry because I know that will happen, but sometimes it just happens.

I tried out this new PB that I picked up at the grocery store this weekend.

I put it on half of an Orowheat thin and topped it with some banay-nay.  That was about all I could handle at the time.  This PB is goooood! 

Then I was off to D-town to get my textbooks.  I wasn’t really keeping up with the prices so I had a mini heart attack at the cash register and went into shock.  (like I said I’m taking some back, so my heart is feeling a bit better, lol).

Then there was the trek across campus with around 50 lbs of books (parking was a nightmare with all of the students moving into their dorms today).  At that point my arms were shaking and I was feeling really sick.  It was 105* today, I think I got a bit overheated.  My body isn’t handling the heat well this summer for some reason.  I usually don’t have a problem with it, but for some reason I just can’t take it this summer.  It’s not any hotter than a typical Texas summer.  Weird.

Anyway, I decided to stop by this little health food store my awesome sis-in-law told me about (thanks Katherine, you rock!).

Cupboard…

And I got a few things.  Some veggies and whatnot.  This is a neat little place and it’s not too expensive. 

They also have a cafe so I had an awesome sandwich!  Chicken and basil sammy- boarshead chicken breast, pesto, feta cheese, and roasted peppers.

Holy crap.  That’s all I have to say.  This might be the best sammy I’ve ever had.  This place is going to get so much money from me over the next few yrs, haha.

Wild blueberry iced tea.  I didn’t even know it existed.  Apparently it does and it’s delish!

And some chocolate.  (I know how good for you dark chocolate is, but I just don’t like it.  I’m a milk chocolate girl through and through)  This was not the best chocolate I’ve ever had, but I just couldn’t resist seeing that they give 10% of the proceeds to protecting endangered species.  It was still pretty good though!

Well, I think I’m spent for the day.  My hands are still shaking and I don’t feel so great, so I think I’m retiring for the evening.  I think I’m going to send hubby out to pick up some food for dinner.

Adios!