The Lazy Girl Dinner and Hot Yoga LOVE

First of all thanks for all the great advice about what to do for my alternative practicum.  Sometimes it really helps to get your stress off your chest and just vent, plus hearing your opinions really helped.  I decided to go to Tanzania even though my roommate is also going and drives me crazy.  After thinking about it I decided Tanzania was what I always wanted to do, I just stayed away from the meetings early meetings because I didn’t want to deal with her.  However this is something I want to do and I should not let her prevent me from doing it. It is going to be an amazing trip and the 6 other girls who are going seem really cool so that is good.  We all kind of feel the same way about my roommate (she is very controlling and talks down to everyone) so we have just decided to keep reminding ourselves why we are there and know that we are planning this trip for US not for her agenda! So anyway I’ll be heading to Tanzania for a month in March, how cool is that :)

The day started in the normal way: pumpkin oats, 3 Hershey kisses and a big blob of PB

Lunch was a plain ol salad made with spinach, feta, red peppers and balsamic dressing

Dinner was an after class regular: Subway 6 inch ham and swiss on WW, this happens way to often!

Hershey Kisses and some OJ in the background

        

Ok now to the Hot Yoga Review!

So just over 2 weeks ago I signed up for unlimited hot yoga at a local studio for all the weeks I am in Kingston.  After 2 weeks of practising 4-5 times a week I am hooked.  It took a few classes to get use to the 105 degree studio but now I can say I am in  LOVE with the yoga. 

I  LOVE  sweating:  sweating for 60-75 minutes a week is amazing, afterwards I feel really refreshed and my skin has never looked better

I  LOVE the stretch: my flexibility had improved tremendously with regular yoga practise

I  LOVE the workout: during class my muscles shake and my body screams and afterwards I always have that really good I just got an amazing workout feel!

I  LOVE the variety of classes: my studio has a bunch of different instructors and classes but even the instructors change up the class every time so it is always something new.

I  LOVE improving:  with each class I feel myself getting better at yoga, my form has improved, I can hold the posses longer and get deeper in the posture!

Really I just LOVE hot Yoga!!!!!

Alright I have homework to do and a 7am yoga class so I better get going, but tomorrow I swear I am going to get commenting on all your lovely blogs!

XOXO

Decisions, Decisions!

Ok so I need some help, my program gives us 4 weeks in the 4th quarter to do an alternate practicum, so basically volunteering somewhere outside of the traditional classroom.  Originally I wanted to go to South America with one of my guy friends but then that kind of fell apart and I got an opportunity to go to Tanzania for my practicum.  One of the reasons I am thinking of Tanzania is my aunt who works for the UN just got a new position there so I could visit her while I was on my alt prac.  The only issue is there is about 8 girls going from the program including my roommate who drives me crazy and I don’t know if I really want to spend the next 3 months fundraising with her and then 4 weeks traveling with her.  My other option is to go to the Canmore, Alberta with one of my really good friends and spend the time working at an outdoors ed camp in Banff national park.  Basically Tanzania is a really amazing opportunity but Banff would also be really cool!  So give me some advice people what should I do?!?!  PS also feel free to suggest other ideas of what I could do

Ok on to the food part of my life.

The return of pumpkin oats, 1/3 cup of oats and milk, 1/2 cup of pumpkin and water, dash of cinnamon and a blob of Justin Maple Almond Butter, Regular PC Crunchy Peanut Butter and PB&Co dark chocolate peanut butter.

 

Green Tea

 

Lunch: sun chips and lemonade

6 inch flat bread veggie from subway (the lazy girl’s lunch)

Dinner: Tomato soup with feta and a slice of WW bread

   

After Hot Yoga snack of a Boathouse chocolate mocha smoothy

And todays lunch: WW bread with a bit of butter and a spinach salad with red peppers, goats cheese and walnuts

Ok well I need to get my butt to class hope everyone is having a great Wednesday!  Don’t forget to give you input as to what I should do for alt prac

Surprise I am in Montreal!

After only 5 days at school I was ready for a break and since most of my friends were heading home to put snow tires on their cars and I kind of needed to go to Montreal for some family stuff anyways I bought a ticket on Thursday and on Friday I packed and hoped on a bus.

After 7am hot yoga I had some apple oats with dark chocolate PB&Co

and did some homework, aka decorated a folder I have to hand in at the end of this term.

Then ran to Lulu to pick up some stuff that I was getting altered and went to the bookstore to pick up a book. 

I finished this entire book on the ride!  Thanks so much to everyone that suggested a non-fiction book (or two) for me to read for my English assignment :)  I made a list and will be checking the rest of them out soon.  But everyone should read A Long Way Gone, it was sooo good the 3 hour bus ride flew by.  Thanks for the suggestion Britt!

Just before leaving for the bus I had some tomato soup with feta sprinkled on top

 

and 2 sliced of my mom’s homemade WW bread

and 2 4 min mars bars for desert

on the bus I had a pumpkin non-fat latte

and 1/2 a pumpkin scone I had leftover from a coffee date on Thursday

and then I had some pop chips while I read

When I got to Montreal  my dad and my sister came to pick me up and we went to a great Vietnamese place for dinner with a few of my sister’s friends and then had even more people back to her place for some wine before we went out to the bars.  No my dad did not come with us, he took the 1am train back to the suburbs when we were leaving to go out.  I do love going out here though, its always so much fun and my sister and her friends have really good connections so we never had to pay cover. 

Then yesterday we took the train all hangover and tired (the bars stay open till 3am here) to the lakeshore where my dad met us for lunch at second cup and we went to visit my Grandma for a little bit who is sick with the flu and really grumpy “because she is 89 years old and all old and creaky”  Hopefully she’ll cheer up when she gets better in a week or so.  After our visit with grandma we hit up an all you can eat sushi bar and proceeded to stuff our faces then took the metro back downtown for some much needed sleep.  Today my sister had to give campus tours so I just slept in, did some homework and wandered around the city.  I am definitely not looking forward to the bus ride back to school but its been nice to see my fam jam and enjoy all Montreal has to offer. 

Well I have packing to do, hope everyone had a great weekend!

XOXO

Busy Bee

Just 2 days of being back to classes and I am already super busy with school and life! My days two days here have been pretty similar

Start with a bowl of apple pie oats with Dark Chocolate PB&Co Peanut butter on top

 

Mmmmmm

Have a little snack at school on break, carrots and PB, usually with some green tea. Then after class I head home and have a yummy lunch, yesterdays was sweet potatoes cheetah style on top of some spinach with red pepper slices and goats cheese

 

Then I head off to a coffee shop for some home working with a green tea

and a pre yoga carby snack

Then I meet the girls for some hot yoga and afterwards we hang out watch trashy tv and snack before I head home for some sleep.

In the hot yoga note I am loving practising everyday, I love sweating out all my toxins and stresses from the day and I have been sleeping really well and I wake up feeling refreshed and relaxed.  This is definitely something I am going to continue while I living here.

In other news I am am loving One Note for keeping my life organized!  By using this program I actually know what I need to get done in every aspect of my life right now :)

QUESTION:

I have to do a book review/lesson plan on a non-fiction book that would be good to read with a high school level class.  Any suggestions?

Ok I have a ton of stuff to check off my list so I better go!

XOXO

Halloween Recovery

So my original plans kind of fell through as my entire group got way too drunk during an intense game of kings and only 2 of us were left standing.  Luckily I ran into some friends from home at the bar and still managed to have a blast!Me and my friend Lauren, I was a pirate and she was a coke can.

After the bar there were no cabs to be found so instead of walking home alone I headed back to Lauren’s with her and her roomies where we enjoyed copious amounts of Halloween candy and poutine. 

In the morning Lauren’s roomie made us all pancakes and around 11 I finally headed home… in a mini dress, black knee high boots and a Queens U t-shirt over top of my dress!  Definitely not a good look for the day time… or ever lol

For lunch I had some leftover goats cheese and fire roasted pepper pizza

   

Then I watched several hours of tv on line before heading to the yoga studio.  I signed up for 3 weeks of unlimited classes and my goal for the 3 weeks I am in class this month is to go at least 5 times a week.

My after yoga dinner was a spinach salad, feta, red pepper, walnuts, balsamic vinegar dressing with a slice of my mom’s WW baguette

Desert was some popcorn

AND

a spoonful of PB&Co Dark Chocolate peanut butter, this stuff is amazing!

Le Shopping

Yup more shopping!  I just got back to school after 4 weeks of teaching placement and spent some of my hard earned tip $$$ from that time I worked a wedding a few weeks ago!  Please note the ghetto fab background that is my student house

some new mocs since my old ones got destroyed last spring

wine and beer for tonight’s Halloween festivities and up coming dinners

dark chocolate PB&Co!!!!! I can’t wait to finally try this stuff and yes I have no food at school besides 11 jars of nut butters!  Definitely need to hit up the grocery store tomorrow

and my new Marmot soft shell ski jacket, I can’t wait for it to snow so I can break out my skis and try this baby out!

all right I need to go get my costume on for the party, have a great night everyone!

XOXO

Pumpkin Fries and Recent Purchases

I can’t thank all my bloggy friends enough for all the support and sweet messages you have sent my way in the past few days :)  Thanks a bunch your comments really cheered me up.

Moving on to what you are all waiting for: The Pumpkin Fries!

So apparently there is a cute young girl selling crazy pumpkins at our local famers market and that is the reason my dad is keeping our side porch is covered in hybrid pumpkin-squash just waiting to be eaten.

One night last week when we were running out of the normal ways to eat pumpkin and squash my dad suggested pumpkin fries and that's exactly what happened.

 

We just sliced it in half and gutted it before cutting the ‘meat’ into fry sized strips. 

Then we roasted it in the oven with some sweet potatoes fries for 30 minutes at 425 degrees with a little canola oil and pepper

Those pumpkin fries were amazing! We enjoyed our pumpkin fries with one of my dad’s lentil burgers on a WW bun with hot sauce and cheddar.

 

Now on to the shopping!!!!!!

blue plaid shirt from Roots, super cute and makes my eyes look really pretty and I apparently have a plaid shirt addiction!

New thermal top from Sierra Designs

And a sweet new running water bottle that even has a little pouch :)

yup that price tag is right just $3.95 for the water bottle, such a good deal!

XOXO