Recent eats

Some recent delicious eats:

Hard boiled egg in my vehicle on campus. I promise I wasn’t driving and eating and taking a picture–I’m not that skilled!

Tuna sandwich! Just tuna, mayo, lettuce, and bread. Easy peasy.

A little side salad of spinach, cucumbers, tomatoes, sunflower seeds, and raspberry dressing.

Chicken station! I was going to fry chicken for my family’s dinner one night but my mom wanted me to bake it instead, so I did. Boo-hoo. I just dipped the chicken in milk and then in bread crumbs + flour + salt.

This was after I assembled the chicken. I forgot to take a picture after it was baked though. Bummer!

Shrimp! They were frozen and thawing in the sink. I combined them with homemade pesto, gnocchi, and asparagus. Pretty legit. The recipe is pretty simple.

I <3 gnocchi because they literally cook in 2 minutes! So easy.

This would be homemade pesto in the making. In the food processor: basil, parm, garlic, pine nuts, lemon juice, and olive oil.

Panera Bread! I usually get the fuji apple chicken salad but I heard the Thai chopped chicken salad was pretty spicy so I decided to try it. It IS spicy, but in a good way! I couldn’t taste anything for like an hour after though :p.

Plain old Swiss Miss hot cocoa! Perfect on a chilly night.

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What’s the best thing you’ve ate lately?!

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Insta life

Instagram is a free photo sharing application that allows users to take a photo, apply a digital filter, then share it in a variety of social networking services. 

I thought I’d post a few pictures of my life lately from my Instagram account. Since the weather has been fairly warm in Pittsburgh (for February), I’ve been more into taking pictures outdoors because my fingers don’t get cold!

The sunrise on Wednesday February 22nd, 2012. I took this after a morning run.

This was taken around 4:00pm on Tuesday. It was raining on and off. The clouds looked pretty sweet to me. The people in the car next to me were looking at me so strangely because I was taking a picture of the sky!

This is Eddie, my family’s dog. I have no clue why he was sitting with his arms out, but it made me smile. So I took a picture in color and then edited it to be in black and white too. I liked both so I put them together in Picnik.

Jimmy’s younger brother got a street bike! He decided to make an excited face I suppose?!

I took this on Wednesday morning. I couldn’t believe that the grass was green.

Pink Brooks. Sweet life. I wonder if these will last me until the marathon I plan to run in June. My wallet sure hopes they last me until June …

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Recent eats

First, some of my favorite scriptures that I have hanging around my bedroom. 

I love having encouraging Bible verses around me!

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Eats:

Peanut butter and jelly has been making a daily appearance in my life lately.

I wish I had the money to have Starbucks make a daily appearance in my life ;). I was sipping on a soy peppermint mocha with chocolate on top!I love the cups. So cute.

I took my little sister to get her nails done and ate peanut butter while I was waiting. I might have gotten a few strange looks.

Juice!! Love the flavors of oranges, peaches, and mango together.

Whole wheat blueberry muffins. I think I like blueberry muffins with white flour better :p.

I saw this on Facebook the other day and I was cracking up.

On Sunday night a mom from my church said she was creeping on my blog so I just wanted to say Hi Mrs. Neely!!! 

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Okay, I’m off to school and then a job fair! I’m hoping to talk to people from a local country club.

Have a great day!

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Vanishing Act

This post makes me:

  • Officially obsessed with peanut butter and jelly
  • A really big dork

;)

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Saturday fun

Saturday was a busy day for me. It was also really fun!

What I was up to:

  • Woke up @ 5:30, had breakfast, & packed a lunch
  • Drove 50 minutes to the fabrication shop that Jimmy’s family owns
  • Worked (cleaned the toilets, etc.) from 7-12
  • Ran on a lovely trail for 7 miles while Jimmy rode a bike next to me
  • Showered and had dinner at Eat n Park
  • Went to the Pittsburgh International Auto Show
  • Headed home and watched 1.5 episodes of “Who the (Bleep) Did I Marry?”

Now it’s Sunday and I have church and not much else going on. Sweet!

Pictures from this weekend:

Early morning commute through tunnels.

Yay for cleaning toilets!

Jimmy’s dog came to work :)

The auto show was packed. I was feeling claustrophobic but it was still a nice time.

The Lexus LFA!!!!

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What did you do on Saturday?

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In my zone

Sometimes I get in the zone. I would consider my zone to be any time where I forget everything on my mind and just do something I love.

What is something I love? Baking!

I even got out my pastry bag!

I made strawberry cupcakes with strawberry frosting. They weren’t perfect because I did them about an hour before I left for school but that hour of piping icing from a pastry bag and messing around with cupcakes was pure bliss. I’m so weird.

Decorating cupcakes reminded me of the time I was practicing my baking skills and made slutty cookies. Fun stuff!

Before I go, here’s a photo of Hannah and I. We were out and about on Tuesday night and a lady in a store we were in couldn’t believe we were six years apart. Good times ;)

Have a great weekend!

When do you get in the zone?!

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Hey!

Just popping in to say hello. With messy hair. And Lily.

Hope your day is going well!

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