Wednesday, July 29, 2009

AAAAAAAAAGGGHH! I’ve had the WORST sinus headache for the past 2 days. My head feels like it’s in a vice; my eyes and ears hurt and my nose is stuffy. Other than making me feel yucky, it also makes me feel very tired, but now is the wrong time for a siesta!

Then we ran into a snag with our new house today; there’s no current cable service there! Well, it’s on the road but it’s never been in service at that address. The house is 3 years old and the owners only used it as a summer house with satellite TV. So, now we have to wait an extra 7-10 days just for them to do a “service request”, which is basically them measuring the distance from our house to the nearest pole. The entire road only has about 10 houses and they said 6 of them already have service, except for ours. How lucky! lol So we’re looking at a possible 2+ week wait for our cable to be turned on. This might not seem like such a bad thing for most people, but keep in mind, we do almost all of our work online, plus my blog. So this is a major problem for us. We’re hoping that they are overestimating the time it will take, but otherwise we’re going to have to make the best of it and frequent Starbucks for Wifi access lol. *sighs* Who knows, maybe it will be fun hunting down Wifi and having some unexpected time off. I’m still going to do blog updates as often as possible though.

Due to all of the packing and moving madness and sinus hell, cooking, eating and exercise has been limited to what I have time and energy for. I can’t seem to get enough of these tortilla pizzas though!

This one was made with 1 Tumaro’s pesto & garlic wrap (120 cal), 2 TBSP Franceso Rinaldi no salt added tomato sauce (20 cal), 1oz fresh mozzarella (80 cal) and 1/2 al fresco roasted garlic chicken sausage (60 cal)

Baked on 425F for 8 minutes. Totally delicious thin crust pizza for only 280 calories.

Yesterday morning I recreated a healthier version of an “Egg McMuffin.” I made it fairly low in sodium, too. I used:

• 2 slices Trader Joe’s sodium free whole wheat bread (140 cal) that I cut the crusts off of and tried to make into a round shape
• 1 scrambled egg cooked in the microwave (75 cal)
• 1 Morningstar Farm veggie sausage / maple flavor (80 cal)
• 1 slice Sargento reduced fat Swiss cheese (60 cal)

1 sandwich, 340 calories, 340mg sodium (I deducted a little for the lost crust)

With 8oz OJ (110 cal), this was a fast and yummy way to start off the day.

My head is throbbing, so I’m going to sleep now. I’ve been doing my obstacle course every other day and surprisingly enough, it actually makes my head feel better. *shrugs* Hoping for a less stressful day tomorrow. I cannot wait to be fully moved!!! I’ll post pics in the next week. I’m REALLY excited about the new walking paths the community has! This is going to be awesome. As long as my sinuses cooperate.

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