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Straight off USS Cray Cray

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Since I believe my last three Monday titles have been that oh so fabulous song by Fleetwood Mac, I decided to give you guys a little breakski and not really talk about my Monday because it was boing a lame. 

So I’ll talk about Sunday instead.  Last night aDuBs came over for some one on one chatting and she ended up staying for dinner.  Why she would want to put up with my family, I’m not really sure because we are straight off the cray cray boat. 

The daddykins grilled burgers, sweet potatoes, veggies and hot dogs which is one of my favorite meals.  Well actually true life: I love hot dogs-not so much burgers but that is another story.

Yes I put chedder cheese in my hot dog and you should too. We were out of cheesedogs.

I was taking pictures and the dad thought it would humorous to mock me. I seem to do everything rather strangely not limited to making faces while I take photos.  (Um does your father do this?  Is this normal?)  I told him perhaps he should get a blog because the blogging besties would lurrvee to hear about his adventures.

And then that led to why I was so freako (by using the term blogging besties along with aDuBs and the daddykins.  All of which I frequent), making up words and giving people nicknames.  Here we are at the dinner table, chatting about my blogging besties (yes all of you), my mother posed the question of what would happen if someone actually didn’t like the nickname I had given them and why the hell I couldn’t use normal words in the English language.

None of their silly questions  I could answer.  Oh well, I have a week to figure out a good comeback since the father went to San Diego for a work trip.

So long story short you are all welcome to my house if you can accept how weird the familia is.  Or if you can accept I basically have my own language and will make up a hella sweet nickname for you.

Incase you wondered, but you all probably know already….  I kind of love my family, my parents and I are usually close and my day is not complete without them telling me how retarted I am.

This may be the only family photo in the last decade.

Who knows why my dad runs with Matt and I.

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Questions for you:

Are you  close with your family?  How often do you see them?

Because I love to wake up at 5:30 for no reason

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So I finally got my lazy butt up yesterday (well not really, besides leaf raking and my run, I was sitting or laying the entire day) and ordered some more protein off of netrition. The theme this month was more cake batter. I loved this flavor. I will be the first one to tell you, it is just an ultra sweet vanilla-but delicious it is.
I also ordered some PB2 and some carbquick baking mix. I love my PB2 and we will see how this carbquick goes.

I didn’t blog about last night’s dinner because I just was feeling lazy but I must add it to today’s blog. I went to the dining hall and discovered they had…GNOCCHI! This is where I first found out about my love for gnocchi. Gnocchi for dinner is what pancakes is for breakfast. I must say the dining hall makes them slightly burnt in such a way that it is my favorite thing they will ever cook (even though I believe they do it wrong-that is why they are burnt). So needless to say after having about 1000 of those on top of those diner pancakes…I’m all carbed out for a while.

The weekend was pretty good. My swim meet didn’t go as well as I would have liked but after cross country season, I can just focus on swimming. The after party was fun though. Swimming formal drama! If you need a few good chuckles read about it here.

Don’t forget my Trader Joe’s Cookbook giveaway ends on Saturday. I only have 15 entries thus far so you have an awesome chance to win.

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Well let me tell you about my morning. I woke up at 5:30 which was incredibly hard to do. Shouldn’t it be easier with daylight savings time? Walked all the way to the pool and what happened? It was closed…they were doing work on the pool yesterday and the chemicals were imbalanced. They didn’t tell our coach and he was livid, not to mention us early morning risers were livid.

So what did I do? Go for a run? No, I just went back to bed. I figured with my biggest race coming up on Saturday-I should start my week off strong with lots of sleep.
When I woke up at 8, I decided I was craving more fruity pancakes again. I looked around and saw we had a lemon and a lime. I went with the lemon. Ever since Di @ Treadmill Diaries posted about using orange zest in her French toast, I have wanted to zest up all my pancakes!

Lemon Zest Pancakes!

1/2 cup flour
1/4 cup egg substitute
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup greek yogurt
1/4 cup water
4 tablespoons lemon zest

Then class. She canceled class on Friday. Too bad I’ll already be missing it since I’m going to my big race.

My run today was exactly what I needed (minus my iPod died at mile 1). I completed 7.1 miles in exactly 48 minutes. I was really excited about that-6:48 pace! I hadn’t had any good runs in a while so this really helped to pump me up for this weekend. I seriously stared out of my window for 30 minutes deciding if I wanted to run on the treadmill or in the cold.

To run outside or inside? So many choices.

I came back and made myself hotdogs. I hadn’t had them in a while either and it seemed like a good idea at the time. I added a slice of cheese and ketchup to top them off.
Why don’t I have these more often? Mysteries of my life…

For snack, I made myself another peanut flour protein muffin. In case you missed it,
2 tablespoons Hershey unsweetened cocoa
¼ peanut flour
¼ cup pumpkin pure
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla extract

First time in my ramekin!

Mix and put into a mug or ramekin and place in microwave for 1 minute. Yummy ooey gooey yum. I could eat these for every meal.
Then off to swim practice again…at least the pool was open.

6750 yards
1000 warmup
400IM
16X100 Pull
10X200 Free Interval
3X (400 kick, drill, swim)
400 kick

Practice was okay-it actually went by really quickly…perhaps because the clock was broken and I couldn’t stare at it every five seconds.

Then I went to the dining hall for dinner. I had enchiladas and a turkey and roast beef flatbread sandwich. I didn’t talk to many pictures because I’m having a somewhat rough day.

This sandwich is a hot mess

I’ll probably explain in later blogs but long story short-I borrowed Aram’s car yesterday and over the weekend, he doesn’t know when and neither do I, someone hit it. There is a rather large dent on the top of the car, almost as if someone dropped something on it or punched it. Either way, it just so happened it was the only weekend I borrowed his car.

But Anywho, I hope everyone else had a lovely Monday. It’s already 7oclock; this day has flown by though. What did you get accomplished this weekend?