No More Comments From the Peanut Gallery

So remember how I was rambling off about doing the 30 days about me challenge?  Well my friends as you can see (by my last post at um day 6, that was a failure.)  But Allie has been successfully doing it for the last 30 days so I decided to steal (Day 25).  Your day in photos.  So today, I’ll only add snide comments in the caption area.  I’ll give you (and me cognitively) a break from all that jazz…

You knew I couldn’t do a blog without rambling off so I’ll just add my eats and swimming workout without snide comments.  I didn’t blog yesterday so I have a lot to say (but really nothing happened yesterday because I’m in a college town before everyone else has come back…)

But first Sunshine and Spice is having a giveaway.  Did you know I’m a bar whore?  Well now you do and she is giving away the perfect Bar.  So go enter (as me of course).

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Anyways like my title implies-no more comments from the peanut gallery, here is a combination of yesterday and today in photos.

At least when it snows it's warmer.

These babies were close to 3 feet long.

To do...yesterday...

I wish I was the practice group leader today. Either way this was an aweful double dose of practice.

Smoked Salmon Bagel nom nom nom

Peanut butter chip pancakes with pumpkin butter

Hot cocoa is what I live off of.

For our swim team party, I was asked to make cornbread.  UM…yeah I’m from the south but that doesn’t mean I specialize in that… (Or have ever even made it.)  I was pretty peeved because I wanted to make something decent but I mean who doesn’t love cornbread?  I love spicy things so I found one with a kick.

Ingredients

2/3 cup white sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup butter, softened
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 eggs
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
3/4 cup cornmeal
1 1/3 cups milk

Optional ingredient
1/2 cup chopped Jalapeno

 

Directions

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F

Lightly grease an 8 inch iron skillet.
In a large bowl, beat together sugar, salt, butter and vanilla until creamy. Stir in eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.

In a separate bowl, mix together flour, baking powder and cornmeal. Stir flour mixture into egg mixture alternately with the milk. Beat well until\ blended.
Bake in preheated oven for 20 minutes, or until golden brown.

Number of Servings: 12

I enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I would.  I was being a negative Nancy because I wanted to make something better.

Julie made Buffalo Chicken Dip

& Jen's Rice Kripie treats didn't make it past the house...

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Anywho my last point is actually about my blog. When I first started blogging, I didn’t really share my blog with too many people (besides ladies in the aerobics class.)  Throughout first semester, I shared my blog with some of my closer friends but I didn’t feel comfortable sharing with people I hardly knew or sharing a link on Facebook.  As this break has continued I have shared my blog with almost all my swim team and have been more and more comfortable sharing it.

Questions for you:

Do you share your blog with “the real world?”

Do you indulge in “bars”? Or have them for snacks?

 

On a side note-Have I mentioned it’s hell week in swimming and can’t wait to run again. More photos from Puerto Rico…

This photo shows my candid love of swimming and cold pools...

Junior Class (We are the smallest booo.)

Because ridding an airplane is like a rollar coaster

Spiced Pumpkin Protein Pie

Spiced Pumpkin Protein Pie

I have to be completely honest. I have made this recipe several times but have not thought of a good name-so haven’t posted it. I’m going to post it now I suppose and update it when I get my creative juices flowing. I have updated it a bit more for my liking by adding more pumpkin and Greek yogurt and hot cocoa mix.

Protein Pumpkin:

1 tablespoon egg substitute
1 packet hot cocoa mix (I use Swiss Miss Diet)
¼ cup pumpkin
1 scoop vanilla protein (You could use cinnamon, I use Vanilla Isopure right now)
Dash of water, baking powder, cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice and artificial sweetener.
Mix all ingredients in a microwavable dish and microwave for 50 seconds.

Spiced Pears:

1 cup of pear
Cinnamon and sweetener to taste.
Mix all ingredients and microwave for 75 seconds.

½ cup Chobani Vanilla Yogurt topping

300 calories/ 35 carbs/1 fat/40 protein/6 fiber/48% calcium

I’m Going To Turn Orange With All My Pumpkin

I am beginning to really enjoy these 6 am practices. No one bothers me and I feel so good just having it done and out of the way. I much prefer to swim than run at 6am. Yesterday, I failed to post a blog but for those of you who don’t know while running, I saw a family of bears. Yes-3 babies and their mother. Let us just conclude with I haven’t run the last 2 miles of my 5 mile loop so fast ever.

Happy Hump Day! Thanks to reading College Runner’s blog, I remembered this week to say it.

5:30am Cliff Z Kids Bar and coffee

5500 Yards of Freestyle
800 Warmup
600 Pull
10X50 Breastroke drill (two kicks per pull) Random. Yes.
500 Pull
400 Kick
5X300 Free Interval
3X200 Free Interval
2X100 Free Interval
400 Pull Cooldown
Today, I had an awesome practice. I was holding my pace and making my target times. I just feel in such a better mood now.

8:45am Breakfast

Pumpkin Oatmeal OATKINS :)

This is just as good as pancakes. Those of you who don’t know my love for pancakes-that is the best compliment form me a breakfast can get ha.

Insert a 1 hour run here. I had such a great swim practice, but my run left a lot to be desired. It was really windy and not too enjoyable weather so I’m not going to complain too loudly.

12:30pm-lunch with Shannon. She is also a cross country runner. I had peanut butter and yogurt on a cinnamon raisin bagel. It was quite delicious. I love the combination of peanut butter and yogurt. If you haven’t tried it, you should really get on that. I also had a pear which, the union seems to be having a lot of lately. The pear is just not pictured because he was not very photogenic.

3:00pm I mixed ½ cup Chobani yogurt, ½ cup pumpkin and 1 diet Swiss miss hot cocoa to make a pumpkin mousse type concoction before running.

Insert a slow run here. I ran on the same route I saw the bears yesterday but it was rather chilly so they must have been sleeping. I’m not too upset.

6:00pm-Dinner time. We went to Lehman because they were having a nutritional seminar at our dining hall. I didn’t really learn to much and I think they could have done a lot better but I mean not many people go to the dining hall to eat healthy. Hence why I can move through that salad bar. With proper guidance I’m sure people would have been more interested.

Today I had a flatbread sandwich with roast beef and turkey. I also had green beans and watermelon. Aram and I got a coffee cake type item, but didn’t realize it was coffee cake and so I had one bite and was not a fan. I like to drink my coffee.

Aram was eating healthy too. He had brown rice, green beans, chicken and mushrooms. He is addicted to mushrooms like I am pancakes. He is actually at the gym right now. :)

Well-I am off to watch Americas Next Top Model. It is the only show I actually follow besides Biggest Loser. What TV shows do you follow?