i don’t know what possessed me- but let’s just say…i know how time can get away from you.

i was like 0___O from 745-9 pm..sitting in front of my comp, clicking back and forth, struggling, fixing, creating…..MY NEW BLOG!!!!! as much as i love this site…my baby: Trayn Harder…I wanted to merge my workout blog and this blog into one- blogging hilarious shit, and the tumblr platform rocks- i like how you can just write short little things- i don’t have to save all my funny pictures for one day, or keep showcasing the same food. i want to move from just simple fitness blog or life blog to just being me- spontaneous, showing you what i want to show you in my daily life.

There are so many memories with this blog- the guys i’ve met (B, D, R, and JC) and the comments you all have written- Fitjerk, L, Gen, Rebecca, Averie, Paula…., the food i’ve eaten…and the LAME ASS POSTS i wrote in the very beginning! I’ll have to delete it one day, but right now, i just want it to stay around…because it has a lot of meaning. and memory.

but…join me in my new place- a phoenix rises from the ashes…

http://burpeecity.tumblr.com/

posting on workouts, foods, quotes that inspire, and just being that feisty b*tch you know and love. (ahem fj)

i’m in the process of figuring out where to go from here- to blog more? or what to do.

i’ve toyed with the idea of just stopping blogging. hasn’t everyone?

as of right now, i’m experimenting with Tumblr, but i don’t like how you guys can’t comment! boo!

$$$ is an issue because i feel that my blog isn’t THAT popular to justify buying a blog domain or purchasing more space. this is a quandary.

hugs and kisses, and i thought i should keep you updated on what was going on- i.e. no postings lately.

MADE IN CHINA.

especially if it’s on a food product. She went to china for a week to visit some mountains my gramps (RIP) adored. She came back with horror stories of being ripped off for meals (umm meat was scarce there…if it was EVEN MEAT)…and there are no stray animals ANYWHERE….and traffic sucks there. Oh, and apparently they’re still having that milk crisis thing…and they’re reusing oil…pumped out of the sewage.

now that i’ve sufficiently scared you and grossed you out…the soy ban i instigated lasted like .02 seconds when confronted with leftover tofu stirfry in the fridge.

there was a turkey burger 'neath all that.

lately tho, i think the tofu jerky is giving my digestive tract a ton of problems…mostly acidy reflux…and others. my tummy hurts. a serious reason to put that jerky DOWN.

I don’t know how i’m gonna stay strong to eating healthy when my mom comes home everyday with a new pastry. today’s was a cheese danish. you have no idea how bad i wanted to eat the rest of it. i talked about getting it ‘later’ (hahhaha like my pal eat:watch:run) which probably will never happen if i hope to become a better athlete

tempting.

in other news, i backed it up like a tonka truck squatting 100 times with 33#. if you think that’s light, then supplement that with bar dips, slightly assisted. mmhmm. not to mention my left arm is out of commission due to a horrible Td shot. it didn’t hurt..just at night when i laid on it. (i’m so lazy i just dealt with the pain instead of rolling over.)

I used my new present from china on it (not food, and my mom deemed it SAFE for purchasing) on it:

the chinese graston method implement.

you press that curved edge- the conVEX side against the place in question, and scrape toward your heart (so on it band….going up from the knee.) it HURTS. but it’s helping break up scar tissues and shit. getting the graston method DONE to you can rack up the bills, so this is a RELATIVELY cheap way to do it. one time i tried using a yard stick. not a good idea. maybe pvc pipe is better.

im sure you all see from my posts and random talk about mobility that i’m really taking this quite seriously. tight = recipe for disaster. i’d like to preserve my achilles tendon as much as possible, and i do a lot of movements that require FULL range of motion- my flexibility limits me in certain areas, so by working slowly on that…hopefully i will reach a new level next year.

I was contemplating getting a hair cut- i know i LOVE my long hair…but i think it has to be trimmed at least since it looks so straggly:

because bad asses wear fit marker wristbands.

i’m a fitness model! jk. man my hair is like..a  horse’s tail. long and straggly . however, just for your enjoyment..here are pictures of me with SHORT HAIR. GASP!

2006

short hair- no need to tie it back for pho-eating.

and no, i don’t think i made it work LOL.

i hate having a hair cut gone ROGUE. takes forever to grow out. and then you feel self conscious. haha.

i do NOT like red cabbage.

after being stumped with braised cabbage recipes that called for ingredients NOT IN MY HOUSE (nor did i feel a need to buy them- um yeah still trying to figure out how to use all of that ‘minced onion’ i bought for a failed ribs rub), i decided to just be a freakin’ rabbit and just eat it. doused in hummus. that shit was a wonderful hummus scoop (TAKE THAT TOSTITOS!!!!!! screw your way too salty addictive chips that taste good with guacamole…..) but it was so bitter. and left little purple streaks. purple and brown should only be together in like hair or something. (yes i want to get streaks in my hair despite the fact i’ll have to BLEACH IT FIRST)

frightening. It was SO HARD TO FINISH THAT DAMN CABBAGE.

weirdly i devoured shreds of red cabbage in this:

because i was XTRA hungry after a 5 mile walk and CFLA.

but there were few shreds of that cabbage. this is my favorite salad from Trader Joe’s. possibly because offffff

this is the dressing of the gods.

i had already put it in my salad and shook it like  polaroid picture. i licked that container too. don’t get between me and food when i’m extremely hungry!!! it’s so weird how my hunger just comes and goes. haha. FEAST! FEAST! and then food coma/not hungry is how i roll.

the only thing bad about that salad..is the fact they put scallions in it. i despise scallions.

Last night i picked up mom- and she brought me back TONS of tofu jerky- after eating  a paleo breakfast (beef chili, mushrooms)…i negated it with 2 packs. hehehe. delicious and toothy!

Of course the day after she gets back we hit up major grocery stores! look at the thing we picked up from Trader Joe’s (and mom tasted. she likes it and think i would like it.it had a TON of almond paste in it and not too sweet) She’s been eying this thing for WEEKS (a la waiting as told by : Eat Watch Run) and finally bit the bullet to buy it after comparing prices for other danishes we get. mom’s head is a calculator.

gonna beast some of this REAL soon.

aka tonight. it’s a rest day and i need to carbo load for a cardio intense tomorrow. justification, my friends.

Highlight of my mom’s day. Mine was the deliciousness of tofu. from taiwan.

Other than a bunch of errands run- two banks, smart n final, costco, costco gas station, trader joe’s….i got in a mini workout (today is my rest/active day) i didn’t have time to hit up the hill this morning (filling out transcript shit) but I DID do my pm intervals, which i happen to like better than the hill. however, my achilles/calf insertion hates it, so i’ll be spending a LOT of time with my foam roller and stretching. man.

One thing I’m really bad about is CARS. Following my treadmill fiasco (all my workouts are pretty crazy) my mom asked me to switch the wiper blade on the RX.

enigma

Usually i’m good with my hands (HAR HAR) but this one stumped me for a bit (fyi, my mom calls me whenever something gets stuck or it’s like mechanical related- like when she shoved too many tv dinners in the ice maker box (don’t ask) and the drawer wouldn’t open. i figured out how to get it out. lol)

Thank GOD i have seth for a buddy- he looked it up online and i (visual learner) figured out how to do it- it took awhile and i almost poked myself in the eye..but i did it. mom was proud.

a celebratory dinner was necessary.

greasy.

followed by a big ass hunk of that danish. like look at that picture and minus the bottom right part. YEP. in my tummy. which is doing somersaults. WORTH IT. back on paleo tomorrow (the soy plus grains = sad but full tra ;D AND bloated..thanks TTOM AND this shit) i wish there was more almond paste in it, but it’s pretty tasty- the pastry is buttery without being greasy, and isn’t too sweet. it’s not dry at all. GO PURCHASE AND EAT!

plus, danish makes good fuel for 530 AM workouts

chompppp

OHMYGOD I WANT TO EAT MORE OF IT but i COULDN’T- no mo’. : ( :’(

but I DID try something else later that day- a candy bar that got lost in the depths of my desk but i found yesterday! and…ate some of it

from like a LONG WHILE AGO.

i like to cut off one side of the bar and then devour. well, eat little bits. i ripped off a part and then chewed. and chewed.

that's a lot of coconut. weirdly, not a lot of coconut FLAVOR.

like i was expecting coconut POW in my face like a coconut creme pie larabar. Sadly, no. But it wasn’t too sweet and the dark chocolate wasn’t too bad. Wouldn’t buy this on my own, i got this for free with a coupon, but i just don’t like candy bars as much.

One thing i like about being alone- you can cook once and eat twice! Case in point, breakfast:

colors! eating a variety of colors i AM.

i got home from CFLA EXTREMELY hungry, so while i hopped in the shower, i had this heating in the microwave and then i threw three eggs on top (told you i was hangry!) If you ignore the eggs, you get my dinner last night. lol.

see, cabbage underneath.

the portion looks small, but i’ll have you know it was 1/2 a cabbage head. and 2 drumsticks, and 3 eggs. that’s a lot of food.

Sometimes i get on a fruit kick- yesterday i wanted some sweets (started from that cornbreaddd oh that cawnbread) and so i ate two oranges yesterday- highly acidic, sadly…but juicy and delicious. I had another one after breakfast and was crazy stuffed hahha

i think i have another 5 billion orange pictures like this

same pose and everything!

on a different non orange related note, does anyone get REALLY HAPPY when they complete all of their stopping at ONE grocery store? this never happens at Whole Foods for me, but today i stopped by Ralphs with the intent of going to Vons afterward to get humus…but low and behold, the same, better priced humus was at Ralphs! and i picked up meat too! SCORE FOR TRAAAAA.

The goods from Ralphs, one bag- sorry guys, forgot to bring a bag of my own :

you get a tussled version, since i dumped the bag on the counter

Again meat, fat, fat, and fat….and…fruit paste- AKA tomato paste. tomatoes are a fruit, right? anywaysssss i was really excited about that turkey:

HOLLAH!!! it's the asian frugality in me!

a) best buy date was tomorrow

b) that’s SO cheap! and it’s 93/7!!!!

This went into lunch prep (BTW i ate the rest of the bar before heading out to Ralphs. Delicious, but a little hard because i put it in the fridge. ouch!)

I make my meals simply- meat, vegetable, fat (this is optional, but i like having some satiety)

VEGETABLE:

i had my cabbage i made before heading out (i was just gonna eat that and tuna but my mind and tummy rebelled

that's a big ass load of cabbage

steamed, and salted. i don’t know why i used my hand to judge. next time, ruler. just know that this is one head. i steam this by boiling an inch of water, and slowly adding cabbage in as it all softens. Once it’s all in, lower heat, and cover. It’ll steam and you’ll smell cabbage in the house..careful, beyond this point, it’ll burn soon. very delicious and SOFT. i like soft, steamed cabbage.

PROTEIN

Ground turkey- 93/7, sloppy joe take 2.

it TURNED OUT SPLENDIDLY!

how i made this:

- start by heating up some olive oil, then add in onion (dehydrated, since i got no fresh), garlic clove (too lazy to chop, should have to add more flavor)

- when brown/borderline burnt, add in turkey in one fell swoop- watch out! oil is hot and it burns! and spatters!

- break up the big ass rectangle and start browning that mother- i added in chili powder, paprika, ground pepper, salt at this step

- watch as all that juice comes out. YUM. (sarcastic)

- when brown enough, and there’s some juice that has come out of the cooking, add in like 1/4 cup tomato paste- stir to dissolve.

- it smelled nice, but then i added in little bits of vinegar- next time i’ll add more, it was tangy, but i wanted more tang. gimme gimme more!

stir and then take off the heat as you clean up a bit around the kitchen.

all dem spices and trash on my counter.

don’t worry i picked up after myself. I like to either clean up as i go along, or clean after i eat. Fun fun fun. But i’m learning how i like to live…so i can do this on my own.

but anyways, here’s lunch put together:

humus peeking over from behind

did that sentence make sense? or is it a fragment? i ate most of it un hummusified..but then at the end, when i ran out of meat topping (nowadays, i like to have the meat be a garnishing thing versus main event. more vegetables! woo hoo!)…i cracked open that athenos humus (original- very legume-y…more flavor of chickpea)

for you, leashieloo- undisturbed snowfall

i did the scrape the rim, lick the cellophane top, and then ate like a bunch of it (the lower rim part, if you’re curious)(the one part closest to you..okay that failed.)

naps, bringing in the garbage cans in, CHECKING the mail for possibly an acceptance letter from Midwestern….and now i’m ready for din din! featuring…cabbage. hahha. i WILL get new vegetation tomorrow…STAT! (possibly after my workout )

and true confession: i want that cornbread and oodles of it….and i am listening to NKOTBSB’s Don’t Turn out the lights…like a milli times a day. SIGH.

just thought all you people needed some greetings full of awesome-ness!

after a sad sad SAD weekend (familial issues! don’t we all get those..)- the week is starting anew! i miss my mommy. more like i miss someone that will get gas. i hate getting gas. BWAHHAAH. i’m just kidding. i miss my mommy.

How else to cope with the pain than to buy new things to try in the food world? (note: i do NOT recommend emotional eating- i really needed something to spice up my food.)

breakfast was sooo bland: eggs and a stirfry mix (blah blah blahhhh you’ve seen it a mILLION times not even counting the times i had it but had the grace not to put them in my posts. but it got the job done. sort of..)

but before lunch i put on real clothes (I LIVED IN MY PAJAMAS the WHOLE WEEKEND GROSSSSSS) and went to the whole foods down the street..i actually thought about going to a different grocery store…but here’s how my mind went:

- s s s s s em em em em em (what song is this? )

- oh you know what, let’s just go to whole foods, i won’t have to go that far.

- well…. whole foods might be expensiveeeeeeeeeeee

- BUT you just need a couple of itemsssssss (all this random thought is happening at a red light RIGHT BEFORE THE WHOLE FOODS)

- whole foods it is! and look! the parking lot is quite empty!

*pull in and adjust because my parking skillz suck. (i can’t parallel park, curbside is a nightmare, and i have perfected the .5mph out of a spot and the 198571950158 point turn to get away from said parking spot.)

i SPENT way too long dawdling in there- possibly because i was stuck on:

should i get this big hunk of carrot cake? (5$) or this big piece of cornbread? (5.53). But wait, the cornbread date sez it expires TOMORROW! if i’m going to buy a cornbread piece i want it to be FRESH! FRESH! and i don’t know if the carrot cake tastes good…why are they only giving out pieces that are as big as my face? i guess i could freeze it…didn’t i say i wanted to eat better? everything in moderation……

in the end i walked out SANS cornbread. :/ this makes me sad because i went today to go get FRESH cornbread and IT WASN’T THERE! I HATE YOU WHOLE FOODS

the LOOT:

humus to betsy.

guac, original tahini humus (sorry L- TAHINI), garden vegetable humus. i wonder how that will taste- i think i’ve tasted it before..i dunno. this was on sale for 2/$4 which i THINK is cheaper than the 2.99 trader joe humuses. hummi?

i made some cabbage (2.5 heads to go! bwahahha i will eat it ALL before mom comes back!) and cracked open a can of tuna (i told you, i’m a bodybuilder/lazy ass cook). and dolloped that aformentioned original humus on top.

ready for some humus lovin'

does anyone else like the look of the humus when you first open it?

it's flippin me off!!!

and THAT is the reason why i get along with FJ. we have the same dirty ass/crazy humor. speaking of which i should really get onto his little weight lifting challenge- MEHHHHHHHHHHHHHH it features things i hate- deadlift, hip thrusts?, and back squat. i wish we could do the snatch or something.

after eating my whole cabbage bowl con tuna…i wasn’t finished. oh no i wasn’t.

x2.

and then a couple of spoonfuls plain….

yeah. more than half in my full tummy.

man. it was pretty tasty. i like how t’was SMOOTH. lemony, tho. it was an interesting taste.

i ended up finish that tub by the day’s end. did you think i would just leave it? hell no.

Today, i tried the other flavor. (do you know, my dad calls different deoderant smells- flavors? HAHAH)

next up!

i tingled with excitement. more like hunger, tho.

for a controlled experiment, the same meal i had last time.

more like laziness, okay?

huh?

picture fail. i like the look of this humus- darker..and little vegetable specks.

coz i need another flipping the bird picture on this blog.

SEE! it looks like a third finger!!!! SEE!?!?!

the taste was delicious- still chickpea-y, but had this vegetable background taste. better than like vegetable cream cheese vegetable taste. i ate 3/4 of the tub. the rest is saved FOR LUNCH bwahaha. or maybe snack. ahha.

[insert a workout in the park. fail, since i didn't plan that the equipment wasn't made for 5'4" people!!! ARGH im going back to the gym after this one.]

As per the 1 tub of humus per day rule established by MOI..i give you LUNCH

almuerzo!

drumstick meat

thank you mom for stocking the freezer with stuff OTHER than chicken breast (after eating them so much, as she prophetized, i am SERIOUSLY sick of it!). these are soy braised!

i dunno, 2 pounds? it was a lot.

steamed in some water. okay the water leftover that cooked the cabbage this morning. going green. literally and shit. these are the stirfried vegetable massive bag from costco. picked out the baby corn again. don’t like that shizz.

i finished off the humus with some of the vegetables (yeah i got seconds.) and then after an INTENSE gaming session in Chrono Trigger, i finished off the rest of my pot…

snack time! seriously 1 hour after lunch...

yep. sometimes i eat humongous amounts of vegetables. hope this helps. unfortunately..or maybe it’s a good thing…i really REALLY REALLY don’t like this guacamole. It has: tomatoes in it…and humongous chunks of onion….and CILANTRO. I of course did not read the ingredients carefully (scanned for sugar and that was it). I do not like tomatoes in my guac. i just realized that. And the avocado taste in this is LACKING! LACKING! time to finish this stupid jar and then get my beloved Wholly Guacamole. ARGHh.

ANYHOO, dinner was at my friend Nina’s house- Paleo Seafood tacos- and then a dessert of cinnamon apple. quite delicious. She sent me home with cabbage…and what’s that next to it?

it's square. yellow...

thick...

I GOT IT!!!!

this one’s from bristol farms and i will let you know how it tastes! toodles!

i actually slept from 830 pm to 8 AM! CRAZY!!! i guess i needed some sleep like BAD.

if that wasn’t a random start to a post, i don’t know what you’d call it. bwahaha.

Today i decided to make something new using that beef i got from Trader Joe’s:

Ingredients:

96/4 ground beef, 1 lb (xtra lean, just the way i like it! baby i like itttt)

minced onion powder (no onions and might as well use this)

cayenne pepper

cumin

ketchup

diced tomatoes in juice

result:

burned my iron tongue!

a little soupy even with ketchup- i think either i’ll add ketchup OR diced tomatoes..not both because it still is watery. I like beef tho- different meatier flavor than turkey. TASTE.

i finished out my meal with 2 carrots…and these!!!!

date balls!

my friend lily makes these for snacks, and sent me home with 2. i love her. they are….so sweet, so coconutty! and just the amount of sweetness! she is an awesome chef!!!!

YUMMY:

praise jeebus.

no words. there are no words. she even put dried fruit in them! WHOA!!!!

gone baby gone

gone in 60 seconds.

i got antsy sitting in the house (it’s REALLY quiet ever since that big blow up fight at my house with my sister) so i took it outside and walked a bit- just letting you know, flip flops might be great walking around to places, but don’t take flip flops out for a walk up and down a couple of major hills. it’s hard. and slippery! and you look weird.

A while back, i wrote a comment to WHOLLY GUACAMOLE about how my first taste and bite of their guacamole— was an avocado pit. YEAH. totally gross. I received a bunch of coupons in the mail a couple of weeks ago…and then yesterday:

oh look! more coupons.

yeah, let’s feed the guacamole monster in Tra. FREE GUACAMOLEEEEEEEE~~~  hehehe.

Pushups and burpees later…i decided to just eat dinner. I don’t know if it was boredom eating or just eating for habit’s sake…but i just ate. My appetite came back in the middle of this.

simple dinner for an undecided stomach/appetite.

canned pumpkin (dregs), sloppy joe (i put away the whole thing today! haahahha i am a beast. yikes.) with 3 scrambled eggs on top (the last bit was like 1/8 of a cup or something.)

and yes, i love ketchup. it’s back! acid reflux be DAMNED!

nina just invited me to a dinner party tomorrow! hope it’s fun!

sigh. it's been a long week..

(picture from pal carlos)

hey all! hope your thursday is going FANTASTICALLY! lately this week has been kinda a downer!!! anyone else have a bad week?

reasons why bad week:

- fights with sister (tis her spring break and she’s home for the week) [just made her cry. god. i am a bitch]

- she’s mad because i refused to drive her to the mall (okay, maybe i’m a bitch, but i don’t feel like driving her all the way to a specific mall just so she can find a dress, and i’m kinda just tired in general of her passive aggressiveness as in ME having to plan the trip..when she is perfectly licensed to drive.) i DO know that my sister is going to complain to my mom and my mom will yell at me for not helping family. must develop counterargument. [update, this just happened! (mom calling me)]

- saw ex on wednesday AND TODAY ARGHHHH- it’s always a little awkward to see someone that, as my best friend puts it, treated me horribly and is the biggest douchebag on the planet.

- craving cornbread and cashew butter like it’s going out of style.

i miss you. love tra

bad idea to go through my archives to look for a picture. i ended up with cravings for pb, cashew butter, and cornbread. hmm. haha.

- not running a lot this week

but! let’s not be a negative nancy ( no one deserves negative energy) so let’s try to think of some positives:

- amazing weather. like shorts and tank top tanning weather. i love it.

AHHHHH HEATTTTTTT

- a cold diet drink.

- good GOOD workouts. like i felt strong during them. HOLLAH_ i got my first deadhang pullup! and with 3# between my knees!

courtesy of my friend carlos!

- chatting with friends. texting.

- guacamole in salads.

so yeah, i’m feeling a little bit better chatting with you guys!

as promised- i used my tj buys asAP! (like the guacamole is kinda like almost well GONE. oops

meat platter. sorry vegans and vegetarians.

breakfast after CF was a chicken salad- i planned on eggs- but that plan went out the window when i realized i’d have to a) saute cabbage to go with it and b) cooking takes longer and c) my stomach was growling all during my shower. LOL.

HOWEVER, lunch, i had more time to play in the kitchen. Along with clean up. up top is turkey burgers (somehow they always seem to take a FREAKIN” long time to cook, i’ll have to ask my friend Lily how she makes hers!) and i baked up so more chicken breast. this time with paprika on top. a little bland but hey, i don’t really care. that’s what mustard is for!

I cut one up after checking to make sure it was done, and topped my salad- like at Hole in the Wall Burger.

burger and chicken salad. i like variety. and i'm hungry.

i put on some guacamole, and drizzled mustard to complete the burger effect. can you believe i used to GIVE my avocado and guacamole AWAY?!! or say NO TO GUAC?!??!?!? wtf was i thinking?!?!? (possibly freaked out about fat, and then realized i was being stupid.)

i was still a bit hungry after this, but i think i eat a LEETLE too much protein, so i finished off a can i opened to eat as a breakfast cleanser:

topped with flax! see my shadow?

flax ain’t cinnamon, that’s for sure. kinda bitter. but i need some omega 3′s to combat the conventionally raised meat i am eating. mmhmm.

Sadly, that is my last can of Libby…i only have organic Farmer’s..which is more watery and i don’t like it…but i’ll eat it

i took a nap- coz i got really dizzy- i think i was like heat stroked or something…and then out of boredom and craving nuts/nut butter-and having to fix my time sheet, i headed out to UCLA and walked to the whole foods in westwood. SWEAT-Y.

burger= delish. cashews= heart burn inducing :'(

why do my beloved cashews give me heartburn?!!?!?!?!!!? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. i still ate a lot tho. BWAHAHHA.

aight, imma turn in early to get ready for ANOTHER early gym day (beast status…) and hanging out with Nina and Lily tomorrow.

ugh. bed head.

yeah, that’s what i’m looking at in the picture. the left funky ass BUMP coming out of my head. lovely.

it's kinda funny, if you think about it

smirking at my own hair bump!

so. fashionistas:  (leashie, hollie, EVERYONE BUT ME!) question: do you think that a) my shoulders are too funky to carry this off b) i need a belt to give myself a waist despite being straight (nina told me this- i’m straight up and down lol) c) my bicep looks humongous d) i need to take a picture showing more of the front of the dress before you make a decision.

i’ll wait while you bubble in your answer with a number 2 pencil.

in other news..sadly i deleted it before i remembered to take a picture of it…i received my first booty call text in like a year! (I KNOW!)

and…it was from….HIM. you know. right? w.t.f. seriously? SERIOUSLY?

if you want deets, let me know.

yesterday i hit up Salsa and Beer-

mmmmm shrimmmmmp.

all i had left of my carne asada and camarones combo. The carne asada was BEASTED and kept me full from 2-7 pm. hahah. and through a 12 minute workout! hollah for protein!

i had the leftover shrimp with tuna and carrots and pumpkin and almond butter (last two things unpictured)

surf and..more surf?

i like almond butter. but it makes my stomach hurt, so looks like it’ll be a fight, but i’ll give it up again. I got through weird periods of not eating it or needing it. Looks like i just need to get guac back in my life!

another place i went to yesterday was Urth Caffe- a) that place is expensive! b) atmosphere is really nice. I had a medium ice coffee of the day and was pleasantly surprised at how NOT CRAZY bitter it was. delicious. I was also buzzed for the rest of the day. HEADACHEEEE ;D

the rest of the day was spent lounging, doing pushups, situps, squats, burpees, and watching too much law and order SVU (the only good one, according to my sister). I peeled myself off the couch and away from the computer to actually get some more EXERCISE- walked for like 45 minutes (built up a sweat) from UCLA to Trader Joe’s and BACK! got some exciting shit:

meat meat meat. and fat.

left to right: trader joe guac- i think it HAS to be wholly guacamole- same taste, same ingredients?!??!, turkey burgers!, and 96/4 ground beef. Might make beef sloppy joe stuff. EXCITING.

i rested for a bit checking my mail, going through the supermarket flyers..and then made dinner- i wasn’t hungry HUNGRY, but better to eat before getting really hungry and then eating EVERYTHING in sight.

ensalada con pollo!

with the weather slowly SLOWLY heating up, and a milli hearts of romaine staring at me- i finally had the cojones and guac to make a nice salad! kinda reminds me of a TENDER greens salad!

in my salad- romaine heart, guac, and some nice oven baked chicken! i finally made nice, juicy chicken IN THE OVEN

pros to making things in the oven:

- make a lot at once

- not dirty the range and get grease everywhere

- no need to use oil (i just put it on a foil sheet)

- no need to stand and watch it like a hawk and hope it cooks (SET IT AND FORGET IT!)

- clean up is a BREEZEEEEE

Cons:

- uses up more energy?

no matter what, i did like the whole JUST LET IT COOK AND DO YOUR OWN THANG:

food prep for the WIN!

so exciting to have ready made protein! more salads to make!

especially in mixing bowls:

ghetto fab.

one day i will have nice mixing bowls- stainless steel ones. and i will eat humongous salads from them. Until them, plastic will have to do. Plastic YELLOW ones.

now i’m chatting with seth about hilariousness known as overachieving students…and cheating in college. who’d athunk?

not mine, from google

it kinda looked like that. twins!

TIGER BLOOD!

of course, the egg cracking happened during breakfast, but who wants to see boring egg whites? full scrambled eggs for lunch. laced with tapatio. charlie sheen is crazy. also, chris brown is messed up. seriously? the eggs were my protein/fat to complement this:

i just can't get enough.

yeah. i picked out all that baby corn. ew. not a fan.

work lunch! more like..gaming lunch!

because i’m in the midst of beating CHRONO TRIGGER. aka the best game ever. i have a simulator for PS on my computer so i just boot it up and go to town. Seth likes to listen to my gaming woes “WHY IS THIS BOSS SO HARD?!??!?! WHY DO I HAVE TO FIGHT ALLL THESE BAD GUYS?!!!!??!?!” of course, i was still hangry after that (the side effects of CFLA at 6 AM) that i had seconds:

seconds!

that’s a lot of guacamole. hopefully i don’t get chubby off of that lol. meh! i did have an impromptu fashion sesh- i was seeing if jeans would go well with a jacket (we’ll think about what to wear UNDER the jacket later)

7 jeans. for Fweee.

my friend gave them to me. jeans are supposed to be snug, yes? just making sure. these are my only pair of jeans. i’m still trying to get used to skinny jeans- i keep thinking my hips are big. yikes.

glamor shottttt.

maybe i’ll wear a red tank top underneath. who knows. of course, this is TOOOOOO dressed up for tea with my gal pals today, so i stripped and got into cargo shorts. or maybe i should have went with it. however, this jacket makes it hard to move. it’s like soooo tight. (second skin, yo) possibly due to musclessss ;D i might wear this out on a date tho. schweet. i can actually put together something better than workout clothes combos. hollie- holler out me with fashion suggestions. i’m short and squat. help. haha. and leashie loo and everyone else.

i had tea (coconut banana bread!) with my friends Nina and Lily- where Nina took pity on my fashionless soul and gave me more clothes- a cute summer dress, more pants ( i hope they fit after this month’s guacamole adventure lol) and a couple of shirts. hmm. i think a fashion show will be in the works

before my mom left for her sabbatical in taiwan- she stocked up the fridge with TONS of cabbage- friday before the dessert party i was heading out to i had a bunch with ketchup, and today, for brunch- me and seth spent way too long figuring out where we would eat breakfast- rain checking that- i made napa cabbage. i told seth about the party, and during part of it, it was really nice- he actually texted me and said, hey, how’s the party? me: it’s GREATTTTTTTTTTT (sugar high) him: hah enjoy! [somehow things like that from friends make me very happy.

nommy.

i doused this with ketchupppppppp.

i had napa cabbage with guac (no picture, forgot after i ate it.)

so like i said before, i was out and about late at night, with my CFLA peeps..dessert and I WAS ALL UP IN THERE.

i had a late night!

aforementioned skinny jeans. hand me down clothes…and running shorts. yeah. my life is a MESS.

i slept for 4 hours in the middle of the day and missed like a REAL lunch. i hate when that happens!!!!!! so now i’m gonna try on the dress and take a picture for y’all tomorrow and am feasting on almonds. YUM-O.