February 2010
21 posts
5 tags
3 tags
Procrastination
Totally browsing mec.ca instead of reading for my seminar tonight. awesome.
For the record, the following assignments are due in the next 30 days
1. Development ethics refelction paper
2. History of development papers (2)
3. International Development Term Paper
4. Sociology globalization project
5. Women an gender studies project
/headdesk
6 tags
Breakfast Blah's
Seriously, what’s with oatmeal? It sucks. Why do we end up choking it down in the morning instead of some tastier breakfast alternatives? Here’s a small list of those alternatives so that when you’re reaching for pasty greyish stuff you can do better!
1. Quinoa with milk, cinnamon and almond or vanilla extract. (I posted the recipe awhile back) 1/2 cup = 3 points
2. Half an...
3 tags
The watchers are watching.
I started tracking points again today, it seems like it’s the only way I don’t over eat. Today is a long day of classes so hopefully I don’t slip up.
Last night I used the fancy scale at the gym after my workout and I weighed in at 231lbs which isn’t terrible but it isn’t awesome either. I started at the beginning of January at 237 and have been fluctuating between...
3 tags
4 tags
Things I have noticed
Since my decision to eat healthy and exercise:
1. It takes way more alcohol than before to get me silly drunk. More than I’m willing to drink. (this is probably a good thing)
2. It only took 40ish days to get my soccer player’s calves back.
3. I STILL crave McDonalds despite all the gross crap in their food and how shitty I feel after I eat it.
4. If I don’t do some sort of...
4 tags
Homemade Furikake
For all the non bento enthusiasts/japanophiles who read this blog I will give a short intro to Furikake. According to Wikipedia:
Furikake (振り掛け / ふりかけ?) is a dry Japanese condiment[1] meant to be sprinkled on top of rice. It typically consists of a mixture of dried and ground fish, sesame seeds, chopped seaweed, sugar, salt, and monosodium glutamate. Other flavorful ingredients such as...
4 tags
"Flat Hair is Sad Hair" Bento with Weight Watchers...
This is my first time using my new Hello Kitty Wagara box and I quite like it. Way more room than my last one and very sturdy!
Contents and WW Points Values
Right Tier:
Almond Dessert Tofu with craisins, a lemon slice and a heart shaped jello cube (hard to see with all the yellow) - 2 points
Moro/Blood Orange slices - 1 point
Left Tier:
Brown Rice and Veggie Stirfry underneath. - 4 points
...
Life and Logistics
This morning I woke up 90 minutes before my trainer session with H. at 10:30, this was sufficient time (or so I thought) to wake up, eat, caffeinate and great ready to be there on time but of course I was wrong. I am consistently 5 minutes late for my sessions, which I feel pretty bad about but H. is a pretty low key, understanding trainer so I tend to get away with it. The problem is that...
Shifting Focus
So I’ve been feeling pretty terrible this week and I woke up yesterday morning with a full blown cold. I didn’t make it to work last night and have been fighting the worst perma-headache for the past 24 hours but it didn’t stop me from going to the gym this morning.
For those of you who don’t know I started working out with a trainer twice a week at the beginning of...
Sho-yu Tamago (Soy Sauce Eggs)
A few days ago I mentioned this amazingly simple and super tasty recipe to my friend AJ, who along with Tal is pretty much the cooking master in our group of friends. Late Friday night, I had already gone home to attempt to sleep and AJ found himself at the OPP (ie: a friends house) and the only thing he found in a mostly empty fridge to feed a few hungry (and possibly inebriated) boys was a...
“Don’t go to Haiti. It’s close to the US, it’s a disaster area, and we all want...”
– Nobody wants your old shoes: How not to help in Haiti. By Alanna Shaikh for AidWatch.
Related: Baptists Say They Were Trying to Do Good in Haiti
Americans arrested taking children out of Haiti
5 tags
Something Blue
In September I was in a wedding planning frenzy. Dress shopping, venue scouting and countless hours looking online at ideas and pictures. I was OBSESSED. This obsession combined with my month long flu episode and subsequent anxiety/insomnia issues led to the dreadful month where I dropped all my classes and postponed our wedding till the following year. Let me tell you I was not in a good place in...