Newlywed, Newly Veg!

Nope, unfortunately I’m not taking a California vacation anytime soon.  But I am headed for warmer climates in less than a week, so that’ll do. 

I had a delicious lunch around 1:00, and the Soap Network was playing…the very first episode of The O.C.!!! It totally made my day.  When I was in college, my roommates and I LOVED The O.C., especially that first season.  Gotta love that Phantom Planet theme song, right?

This morning, I did work for a few hours, then hopped on the treadmill for a 7 mile run.  It was a good one!  Right when I was ready to quit, Pandora pumped me up with some old school Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “Higher Ground,” which totally made me think of this:

…and pushed me on for another mile.  You KNOW I love me some Jodi Sawyer.

My run was fueled by a lovely purple monster that I whipped up for breakfast this morning, containing: spinach, strawberries, half a banana, frozen blueberries, almond milk, and chocolate Amazing Grass powder.  Yum!

After showering and cleaning up, I got started on some lunch.  I wanted tacos, but I wanted them to be different..I’ve been eating a lot of tacos lately!

I decided to saute up some veggies to have inside my tacos.  In some olive oil, I cooked up zucchini, yellow squash, red onion, and orange bell pepper (taste the rainbow challenge—what, what!), along with a shake of garlic salt and chili powder:

As I cooked, I snacked on some Kashi crackers, and I was SUPER excited to find this GIANT cracker:

Yep, that’s what gets me excited.  Giant Kashi crackers.

Once the veggies were done, I threw them into a few blue tacos, along with some lettuce, avocado, grape tomatoes, and white cheddar.  YUM!

Enjoyed with a side of Seth Cohen:

The original emo kid.

Now I’m trying to decide what I want to do with the rest of my afternoon.  I could get some more work done on my gradebooks…or I could take a nap. 

See you tonight!

Evening, everyone!  I hope your Sunday was nice and relaxing…the way all Sundays should be!

A bit after lunch, the sun came out in full force (yay!), so Ryan and I got motivated and took the dogs out for a walk.  BUT, around mile two, it started snowing again…and getting really windy…and basically turning back into the weather that I am SO SICK OF!!!!  I spent the last half mile of our walk basically just bitching about how sick I am of the Pennsylvania weather.  Sorry, Ryan! It just puts me in such a rotten mood—I am not someone who is happy in cold climates! Ugh. Ugh.

I was watching the local news tonight, and they said that we have gotten FORTY inches over the usual average snowfall for February.  Geez ums.  What a way to spend our first winter here, right? 

Okay…enough of the complaining.

Well, actually, just a little more!

We decided to do a hot yoga podcast.  We turned up the heat, got the space heater going, and started the podcast.  But…I don’t know.  I just wasn’t feeling it.  I ended up just laying on my mat for a while, staring off into space while Ryan continued on with the yoga.  Do you ever have one of those days?  I think I’m just ready for this day to be over.  Actually, I’m ready for this WEEK to be over, because on Saturday, we’re flying down to Shreveport, hopefully to be there when my very first niece is born!  I can’t wait!  Katherine, if you’re reading this—tell Sophie to HOLD OFF until Saturday!  You don’t mind waiting another week, right? 

Anyway, after my yoga fail, I decided that at least dinner could be good.  I snacked on a leftover corn muffin as I pulled together everything for black bean and sweet potato burritos with spicy corn salad.

Basically, I cut a sweet potato into small chunks, covered them with spicy Cajun spice and popped them into a 350 degree oven for about 25 minutes. 

While they were cooking, I threw the salad together: corn, red onion, cilantro, lime juice, grape tomatoes, chili powder, and garlic salt.  Yum! Easy and delicious!

With our burritos and corn salad, we had some Garden of Eatin’ blue tortilla chips…I accidentally bought the no-salt kind—doh!

In addition to black beans and sweet potato, my whole wheat burrito had cilantro, avocado, and lettuce.  Yum!

Pre-fixin’s:

Here she is, in all her glory:

And after I dug in:

I wasn’t feeling yoga or the weather today, but I was definitely feeling this burrito! 

And now, my first official TASTE THE RAINBOW challenge tally:

I can already see that I’m going to really get into this challenge.  I love a good competition—even if it’s just with myself! 

Night, kids!  See you tomorrow for another Monday, Monday.