by Jenn (j3nn.net) on February 25, 2009
This week my husband and I set out to start the new daily/weekly agendas that we planned on Sunday, but we have failed miserably thus far! 
We’re attempting to adjust our current schedule to get back to a more normal set of hours and actually keep it at that, but it’s not going as planned. We wake up with good intentions, but sometimes we’re easily distracted and run off course or just using whatever it is as an excuse to procrastinate lol. 
Yesterday our reasoning was Mardi Gras! 
And of course, we had to finish watching the last 3 episodes of Six Feet Under in our DVD set. *sigh* So, I started the day off with my pre-workout snack:
1 Honey Graham Clif Zbar (130 cal) with 9g Naturally More peanut butter (45 cal) = 175 calories and actually kept me satisfied for awhile, but instead of exercising, I decided to tackle our bedroom closet that was very unorganized and driving me crazy. So, I did accomplish a few things on my agenda — go me! haha But after that, the rest of the day/night was all downhill. 
We went to the diner around midnight, I had a chicken salad sandwich on a croissant with swiss cheese. It came with fries, I ate like 5 of them and all of the sandwich. It was delish. Other than that sandwich and my earlier snack, that’s the only thing I ate all day, other than 1 cookie. 
That sandwich REALLY filled me up though! Wow, it was fantastic.
The night before we went grocery shopping at Hannaford at like 2:00AM (remember, weird schedule), I came home and cleaned out the fridge, which was another thing on my to-do list this week. I found a lot of yucky things in there, but also some really wonderful things that I didn’t want to waste. One thing was a pound of ground turkey breast that I didn’t feel like cooking, so I left a note for my mom to use it for whatever she wants. When we woke up the next morning, mom made something spectacular out of something very ordinary, that would have otherwise ended up on a bun with some ketchup if left up to me lol.
She made stuffed red bell peppers with lean pork chops in the sauce. They were AMAZING! I do not know the exact recipe, but I do know that the peppers were stuffed with cooked white rice, bread crumbs, ground turkey breast, herbs and spices and then cooked slowly in a huge pot of tomato sauce. DELICIOUS!
It was HUGE! I cut it in half and sprinkled grated pecorino romano cheese over it. So tasty! My mom is a really, really great cook. <3
I have no idea how many calories were in this, but if I had to guess, I’d say around 500-600 cals.
Today I woke up before hubby and had my morning, pre-workout snack. 1 Matthew’s multi-grain English muffin (140 cal) lightly toasted with 18g Naturally More peanut butter (90 cal) and 1 TBSP Whole Foods Everyday 365 Forest Berry Harvest fruit spread (30 cal) with a cup of iced tea made with Truvia that I made a whole pitcher of last night. It comes to about 260 calories and totally YUMMY!
I flipped through a real estate magazine while I munched. We’re starting to look for a house! YAY! (And I guess that counts towards something else on our agenda hehe)
So, another thing on my daily/weekly to-do list is doing multiple blog updates each day, instead of just 1. I’d be doing 3 or 4 mini updates throughout the day instead of 1 big one everyday or every couple of days, what do you guys think? The main reason for my updates being late is that by the end of the day, I’m exhausted and not always in the mood to spend 2 hours doing a very big update, but if I do multiple updates, it will only take a few minutes at a time. Good idea? Bad idea? You don’t care? I’m nuts? lol Let me know what you think!! 
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by Jenn (j3nn.net) on February 22, 2009
I finished the 4th and last book in the Twilight saga on Wednesday and suddenly became very anxious to see the movie that’s been out for a few months now so most theatres stopped showing it already and it doesn’t come out on DVD until March 21st. So, hubby surprised me by searching for all theatres in a 200 mile radius and he found one that still had it in Poughkeepsie, which is about 50 miles from where we live now. I’m actually very familiar with that area because I lived nearby for 20 years. So, we decided to make a date for it the next night, even though it would be a 100 mile trip. That’s one of the many things I love about Dustin; if I want something and he can do it, he’ll do crazy adventurous things to make me happy. We’re more like Lucy and Ethel instead of Lucy and Ricky! LOL
I woke up before hubby on Thursday morning and I was sooooooo hungry and craving tuna and crackers. I was actually thinking Ritz crackers, but I don’t buy them anymore due to nasty ingredients, but I do buy Late July organic Ritz-like crackers for hubby. They’re high in calories and sodium, though, so I went with Kashi Honey Sesame TLC crackers.
I made the tuna with 1 whole can of Bumble Bee very low sodium tuna (138g, 172 cal), 3 TBSP Hellmann’s olive oil mayo (150 cal), 1 diced plum tomato (15 cal) and white pepper. I ate the tuna like a dip with 40g/1.3 serving Kashi Honey Sesame TLC crackers (170 cal):
I’m sure most people are like, “EWWWWWW! Tuna for BREAKFAST?!” Haha, not me! I love lunch/dinner food as soon as I wake up. The tuna and crackers came to 507 calories and worth every cal!
We were running late (as usual) because I had to fit in a workout so I’d feel slightly better about all the popcorn and candy I planned to gobble up at the movie lol. It started at 9:10PM, so we decided to just pick up a quick slice of pizza at La Bella’s in New Paltz. I had a slice of cheese Sicilian and a diet Pepsi:
Oh, and hubby did warn me ahead of time that the movie theatre was one of those past-their-prime ghetto theatres that still plays movies from 1973 lol, so I expected sticky seats and stale popcorn… but this… I wasn’t prepared for 
I’m hoping they just didn’t have enough room on the sign and that they didn’t actually misspell it. lol
The admission was only $2 per person! So, $4 bucks for the movie tickets and $9 for our pizza = cheapest date ever! hahaha It was SO MUCH fun though!! I absolutely LOVED the movie. 
My short review without any spoilers:
If you didn’t read the book(s) and just saw the movie, you will miss A LOT of what is going on. The movie is really, really condensed and true to book VS. movie form, the books are infinitely better but the movie did an excellent job of bringing the characters and story to life. Everyone looked and acted exactly the way you’d imagine from reading the books, except for Charlie. I imagined him looking a little longer in the tooth, but everyone else fit the part perfectly. My husband said he was surprised as he thought it would be a total “chick flick” but he said he enjoyed the action scenes.
Like I said before, this storyline is supposedly geared towards teenagers, however, I feel the characters in the story aren’t actually teenagers in the traditional sense and adults would relate to the characters and understand the story with a little more appreciation than a 13 year old might, so don’t let the age guidelines throw you off. That’s just my opinion though. I’d highly recommend reading the books and seeing the movie. I will also buy the DVD when it comes out and look forward to seeing the movie sequels. Yes, I enjoyed the story THAT much.
Out of the 4 books, I liked Twilight (book 1) and Breaking Dawn (book 4) the best. New Moon and Eclipse were good and of course, vital to the story, but I didn’t particularly care for some of the plot twists and continuous G-rated dialogue.
Well, it’s past my bedtime (whenever that is lol), so I’m heading to bed now. Nite nite
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by Jenn (j3nn.net) on February 19, 2009
Haha, corny! I did about 43 minutes on my recumbent bike today. I just wasn’t in the mood for HIIT or strength training, but hey, any exercise is good and it has been at least a week since I last got my heart rate up for more than a few minutes lol.
Before my 10 mile going nowhere bike ride, I ate a 28g serving of Banana Nut Cheerios (100 cal) with 4oz skim milk (45 cal) and 9g Naturally More peanut butter (~43 cal):
Yummy little pre-workout snack for just under 200 cals.
Oh by the way, even though I’m not officially counting calories anymore, I still measure probably around half of my portions on my digital food scale. I eyeball the rest, though.
After my workout, I made grilled turkey burgers for our breakfast/lunch — brunch, I suppose:
Turkey burger: ~4oz ground turkey breast on 2 slices Alvarado Street flax seed bread (100 cal) with butterhead lettuce, red onion, a plum tomato and a huge glob of Hellmann’s olive oil mayo
On the side: A handful of Kettle Bakes baked BBQ chips and 1 fat free Stonyfield Farm Lotsa Lemon yogurt (140 cal) topped with blackberries and 1 of the chocolate dipped strawberries from my Edible Arrangement
Odd combination, but really, really yummy!! This kept me full for several hours, so I skipped right to dinner later on. We decided to eat in the living room, which I am usually against, but it seemed like fun last night and it was!
I made us seafood pasta with: Mezzi Rigatoni pasta (they’re like half-sized rigatoni), 1 can of Trader Joe’s no salt added wild Alaskan salmon, 1 can Trader Joe’s tongol no salt added tuna, half a bag of Birds Eye mixed sugar snap pea veggies, half a bag of frozen string beans, half of a red onion, 3 diced plum tomatoes, and minced garlic:
Topped with 10g (2 TBSP) grated pecorino romano cheese and lots of crushed red pepper flakes!
I estimate this bowl to be around 600 calories, give or take 50 calories. First I boiled the pasta (6oz), then I steamed the frozen veggies in the microwave and then added 1 TBSP EVOO to a nonstick pan, added in the garlic and added in the onions and frozen veggies. Before I added in the tomato, I removed about half of the veggies from the pan because it was just waaaay too many. Then I added the tuna and salmon in with the tomatoes, WITH the juice from the can and sprinkled 3 TBSP pecorino romano cheese into it and stirred it all together, then poured it over the pasta and stirred it again.
It was FABULOUS! I ate all of mine, but hubby got full halfway through. There was over half left in the pot, even after I portioned out 2 very large helpings for us. SO GOOD!
Speaking of hubby, we’re going on a date tonight, so I need to go take a shower. I’ll post an update tonight from our date.
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