Just For Fun

I don't have anything interesting to show you in terms of meals today because I basically have no groceries.  I'm going to make an early morning grocery run to Whole Foods tomorrow so hopefully I'll have some fun new eats to show off next week...as well as my ingredients to bake for my giveaway winners!

I participate in a photo group on facebook and one of the assignments was to show something that we did that day so I took a pic of my boxing gloves and gym bag.

Check out those pink gloves! For all inquiring minds, the gloves are made of synthetic material.  I also have a pair of pink MMA gloves and use both pairs frequently (depending on the workout my trainer has in mind).  The best is when I'm hitting pads in the parking lot and everyone who walks by inevitably stops and stares...I guess a 5'2 girl with pink gloves that can actually hit is something they hadn't seen before ;)

Anyway, I know that is random but I figured why not. Oh and I want to show you some insanely cute pics I found :)

This is one of my fav pics ever. 

Isn't he precious!!?

Maybe it is a photographer thing, but I think this is awesome! I bet it works every time!!

Anyway, sorry for the randomness, more food tomorrow!!

Wedding Day Eats

I'm working another wedding today so I'm just going to be posting what I've eaten (breakfast), what I will eat (lunch and snack) because these are the only meals I have control over.

It's been kind of a rough week, I feel very out of sorts with all of the disruptions from the hurricane and to top it off I was in a little fender bender yesterday. Everyone is ok, I banged up my knee a little and my car is going to be in the shop for a while but it was just a really scary experience (I've never been involved in an accident). After that I was called to work today and then I had to cancel my training session for tonight and then Monday is canceled because the gym is closed for Labor Day.  It's all kinda bumming me out.  I plan on taking this weekend to try and relax, do some vegan baking for my giveaway winners (!!!) and lots of yoga.

Anyway, sorry to be such a bummer, I'll show you some yums now.

Breakfast was some fruit I was supposed to eat yesterday.

Last night my friend thought I needed a good meal and a margarita to calm my nerves. I got a delicious strawberry margarita and a really amazing, delicious meal. It is brown rice with veggies and sesame crusted tofu in the most delicious and slightly spicy orange sauce I've ever tasted. The orange was so bright and fresh! My pre-wedding lunch is the leftovers from dinner and it is a perfect balance of grain, veg and protein to start a long day :)

Bringing a lemon larabar as snack.

Gratuitous shot of Eddie because he is so photogenic :)

Sorry to be a bit of a downer today, once I get through work I'll feel better and get to relax. Yoga tomorrow will help too. Hope all is well on your ends!

Yummy Eats and Fur Children!

Hello again everyone :) Lots of craziness over the past few days! We still don't have power at work (!!!) so yesterday I got to work from home.  On a whim I called my gym to see if my trainer had a 45 minute slot open for a bonus session and sure enough someone had canceled so I grabbed the slot! I'm so glad I did because the workout felt amazing yesterday and I've been feeling really good in general lately. I have another session tomorrow and I finally got my yoga dvds so I can't wait to give those a try too!

I've been at my brother's house pet sitting this week and it is so nice to be around animals again.  I figured I'd introduce to you them because they are awesome and cute.  My apologies for the funky color in the pics but I'm sure you'll get the point ;)

This is Tyler! He's a bit neurotic and needs a lot of attention but he is so sweet you can't help but love playing and cuddling with him.

This is Jack. She is a rescue kitty. The vet said she was a he hence the name. THey found out later that she is a female but kept the name.

This is Eddie, another rescue kitty. He used to be super anti-social but now he is such a mush and loves to be pet...he purrs like crazy!

They are so cute I had to show them off :) Now onto the eats!

Breakfast: Big ol' bowl of watermelon and blackberries. Super refreshing.

Midmorning: Coffee...love that my name is on the cup, too bad it's spelled wrong ;)

Lunch: Another chopped salad.

Dinner: Broccoli with olive oil and garlic, carrots with unpictured hummus and this amazing cucumber salad I got from the same place as the salad.  

There were also some un-pictured snacks. Pretty yummy day!

Hopefully we'll have power in the studio tomorrow.  Today we were running off a generator...it was so hot in there because we were afraid to try to plug in the AC! Excited for another training session too :)

Giveaway WINNERS!!! (and a few meals!)

Hey guys, just back here with the giveaway winners!! I was only going to do 2 winners but since only 3 of you commented on the post (well three of you that weren't making weird comments about colorful abs??!) I figured what the heck, you are all winners!!! Congrats to Shen, Food Feud, and Michelle!!! I'm planning on a few goodies for you, so please e-mail your address to me at sarah_shmuel@hotmail.com.

Can't wait to bake some treats for you ladies! The power situation threw a little wrench in the plans because  I don't have the kitchen to myself anymore but I'm going to try and get everything made this weekend and have them in the mail for you by next week.

Yay! first giveaway in the books! :)

Now some updates. Today was sort of business as usual.  We had no power at work still (and we still have no power at my house...yikes!) so I had the day off...if it still isn't back tomorrow I'm gonna bring some work home though.  Can't afford too much time off.

Had a sick workout at the gym with my trainer today. Been feeling pretty good lately :)  And I love every minute of it!  I can't wait until I get the 3 yoga DVDs that I ordered in the mail so I can get back on that train and re-gain some of the flexibility and balance that I had worked so hard on before!

Onto some eats. Breakfast was a big ol' bowl of watermelon which wasn't too interesting so I didn't photograph it.

Lunch was some delicious vegan hot and sour soup. I LOVE this stuff, my mouth was on fire!

Ask and you shall receive! Another chopped salad for post workout dinner. 

Un-pictured snacks and coffee :)

See you all tomorrow. Maybe I'll be able to introduce you to the furry crew I'm caring for this week. And I think I see some Thai food in my future. YUM!

Irene Aftermath and a Random Meal

Hey everyone, thank you so much for your concerned. I'm kind of shocked I just got my power back already and feel incredibly lucky to have gotten through this with little interruption and damage. I just read about Shen's experience and we had the exact opposite, very little rain and LOTS of crazy wind.  Trees down and some damage to the neighborhood, but I didn't experience anything personally except a few branches from a tree came down.

In the hours after the craziness everyone in the neighborhood was out surveying the damage.  I guess it gave us something to do while waiting for the power to come back.  I took a bunch of pics to show you.

About 100 feet from my house a tree was uprooted and leaning on this house. So scary!

Front view

Huge part of tree in the middle of the street a block down from that first uprooted tree (2 blocks from my house)

Down the block from the first house with the leaning tree, this tree completely fell over and took out the power lines.

Same tree as above, you can see why we have no power. I'm at my bro's house with the animals, my parents still have no power.

That's the craziness that happened within a 2 block radius of my house.  I feel incredibly fortunate to have been spared of any significant damage.

And now for a random Irene meal of random stuff I had around...

Watermelon, dolma and snapea crisps. Random but good.

I hope you are all ok!

Brief Hiatus

Hey everyone, just figured I'd give a heads up that I'll be going on a brief hiatus until things calm down.  I'm not necessarily panicked about the hurricane but I'm located on Long Island so I figured I should at least not be a total idiot and take the warnings somewhat seriously. I have a wedding to work tomorrow so I'm just trying to take my time now to make sure everything will be as safe and comfortable for the animals (I'm pet-sitting for my bro through next week) as possible.

Hope everyone remains safe over the next few days and I'll be back next week with more vegan yums and the giveaway winners!!!

No natural disasters today!

Yay no natural disasters today! Although a hurricane is on the way, which caused my friend to postpone his visit up here :( Major bummer! I'm pretty upset about it because I haven't seen him since April and don't know when we'll be able to reschedule. I'm sure it will also have an impact on my margarita consumption :(

Only took pics of lunch and dinner today.

Lunch: WF's prepared yumminess - golden sesame tofu and quinoa/zucchini/chickpea salad.

Dinner: Dolma, carrots and garlic and herb cashews.

There was plenty of food consumed between all these meals, just none that were noteworthy.