Three Weeks

Hey blog-a-linis! Happy Friday!


Personally, I'm pretty excited (: I know I don't have like, real school anymore -- just my Senior Search -- but the weekend just gives me such a good feeling! Even if I do have an extra three and a half hours of work tomorrow. Oh weellll. Anyways, I hope you guys are having a good Friday!
For me, Friday afternoons have always translated to some pretttty good TV watching! Vampire Diaries & Community -- my two favorite shows -- are on at 8 on Thursday nights, so I usually don't get to watch them until Friday (: But it's all totally worth is to see Ian Somerhalder. God I'm obsessed. 


Anyways, onto the activities of the day! 
Working with the little kiddies this morning was a total blast! It was a fairly easy day, save for a few tears from a four year old. My physics teacher from last year came to do a presentation for the kids and it was hilarious because I totally failed at making the experiment work when she explained it to us like adults... but when she explained it to preschoolers, it totally clicked for me. Sorry college, I'm gonna go to preschool next year instead. They get nap time. (:


Actually, get this: graduation weekend is only three weeks away! WHHHAAATTT?! I'm so freaked+excited+ready-ish at the same time!! Alumni induction is on Friday and then graduation mass is Sunday. At my school, we graduate in floor length white dresses, but I don't wanna show you guys a picture until the actual day! HAHAHHAAA secrecy. 

I also managed to squeeze in a workout into my suuuuper-unbusy day (: I love having these now! I got to sit outside & read The Thrive Diet for like ever! I'm loving it, by the way! It's super interesting and totally clears up a lot of the questions that I've had about veganism+healthy eating. Anyways, I hit up the ellipticizzile (sup making up words) for a really easy thirty minutes while I watched some of an episode of House! Since it was so nice, I also took my puuuuppyy for a quick twenty minute walk! I love sunshiiine


Now for some eeeaaaats!
I didn't post yesterday, and I probs won't on Thursdays just cause they're so busy for me (work+other daily stuff), and I didn't snap a picturrre of any of my food. Maybs that can just be my like, chill-no-blog-worries day? We shall seeee.


This morning, howeva, I was a good blogger & had my little morning photoshoot! 

SUCH a tasty breakfast! The bowl was a variation of Wednesday's, with 1/3c oat bran, 1/4c wheat bran, 1T peanut butter, ~1/3c almond milk, + 1 scoop Amazing Grass Chocolate Drink Powder (I think I made that name up... I kinda forgot what it's called for real.) & I topped it with a fudgie a la Carrie! It was so good I had to tweet about it (: AND OH MY LORD that tea was the best one I've ever had. I picked it up at WF cause I ran out of my other stuff and it's a rooibos -- orange creme & VANILLA. Get at me. I was like... floored by how this good was! I craved it the rest of the day! 
After I left the preschoolers, I was jonesing for some salad bar action. And I caved because, what the hell, it's Friday (FRIIIday gettin' down on FRIIIday). Check out this monnnstaa:

So. Frickin. Tasty.!! And massive... spinach, romaine, roasted corn salad, quinoa, blackbeans, chick peas, red peppers, cukes, chipotle tofu (TOO spicy! had to pick it out!), carrots, & WF's Cucumber+Tomato salad (the best thing they have. Seriously.) And I topped it with the uuusual Annie's Light Honey Mustard. If it ain't broke, don't fix it! After I threw together the salad, I somehow ended up in the freezer section... How did that happen? (; I found this little gem...

How did these end up in my basket?! Oh right. I couldn't resist (: I seeecretly may have had one as my lunch dessert... and it was strawberrybananachocolate bliss, I tell you! So yummm! While I was checking out, I also snagged a KIND bar, which I've never tried before! 

Please ignore my horribly unpainted nails (: it's on my to-do list as soon as this post goes live... along with graduation announcements.... le sigh. Back to the KIND bar! It was super tasty! I ate it with a microwaved+mashed banana+about 1T peanut butter. I cant believe I've never tried any of these before! The coconut was so good in here! I was impressed to say the least (:


Around six, my tummy started grumblin' for dinnnn, so I got to cookin! 

Baked Tofu + Roasted Broccoli + Brown Rice

"Magic Toast" from Chef Katelyn

OH MY GOD. This toast was so. Damn. Good. Seriously I didn't want it to end! Hah it totally outshone my main dinner! I'm thinkin' I know what my dessert is gonna look liiiike!

Alright sweetie pies, I'm gonna peace out for the night. I've got a date with Brendan Brazier (: 

And graduation announcements. Sorry Brendan.

See yall tomorrow! 

Samantha

My questions of zeee daaaay! 

What was/is your graduation like?

I still need to get my dress hemmed... sup 5'2" frame.

Do you have a special 'personal day' of the week?

I just like my weekends! OH. And summer is just one lonnnnng ass weekend!

Have you tried KIND bars?! 
Do I need to try any other kinds?! I loved this one!

Flow-Tastic

Haaaay gangaroos! 


So what have yall done with your days? Cause thus far, mine has been niiiiice & lazy (: Just the way I like it! Lemme tell you, it was C-O-L-D in Cincinnati this morning! I was freeeeezing in yoga pants and a sweatshirt. Then again, I spent the morning with my preschool class walking around a park! It was fun to see the park with the kids, but I think we all could have done without the cold. One poor little girl couldn't even warm up on the bus ride home! She's the cutest thing ever though, I'm actually jealous of her eyelashes at age seventeen! Random tangent-- I have SUUUPER short eyelashes, but they're still longer & thicker than my mom's (her first words to my dad when I was born: "Oh thank GOD she got your eyelashes..."). They've gotten thicker & healthier since I started using Bare Escentuals Buxom Lashliner, and it's actually super easy to put on! I'll do a review post on this eventually (;

One of the preschoolers!

We decided just to eat lunch back at school instead of the picnic we had planned on because no one wanted to put up with the cold any more! Seriously Cincinnati, it's May. Please get your act together and GET WARRRM. Despite the chilliness of this morning's weather, I still had an overnight breakfast (: heheheh. And lemme tell ya, it was SO GOOD:

In the bowl (based off of Katelyn's Cookie Dough in a Bowl):
-1/3c oat bran
-1 scoop banana spirutein
-1/4c wheat bran
-1/3c rice milk
-1T unsalted creamy peanut butter
-topped with 5 sliced strawbs (yuuuummm)


Lemme tell ya, Katelyn is a genius for this combo. It was tasty & thick, but not so much like a Fitnessista Breakfast Cookie. Plus, cookie dough has always been more of my thing than the actual cookies (; Anywhizzle, this bowl kept me full throughout our frosty trek & made it much easier to tell the kids that we would be having lunch "super super soon!". (Which was kinda not true. But they started asking at 10 AM.) It was fun (for me, probably not for any of the moms) to see what parents were packing for their kids for lunch! I thought it was so cool to see how few kids were getting Cheetos and how many kids who were getting stuff like organic applesauce & carrot sticks! It shows that healthy eating is really starting to catch on! Lovin' itttt.


I had a pretty impressive spread for myself when I got home, plus all those kids with carrot sticks were making me crave some myself! I boiled some lentils for about 30 minutes, mashed em a little bit, and spread them onto two pieces of sprouted Ezekiel seven grain bread!

All the lentils didn't fit onto the sandwich, though, so I ate the rest on the side. Oh, and I stuck some spinach into the sandwich too, for some greeeeeens (: Strawbs & carrots on the side! After lunch, I was feeling a little antsy, so I decided to go out and do something. Since senior year is over (SENYAAAAS) I actually have free time now! I'm so not used to this, especially since I used to work Wednesday nights but my boss told me on Monday that the classes were small enough that I didn't need to come in! Anyways, the point is that I have free time now, which means I can read for fun again! Katelyn has talked a ton about The Thrive Diet by Brendan Brazier (ps when I googled him I decided he was WAY attractive. Just saayin.) So I went out & bought it for myself!

So far, I like it a lot! I've only made it through the first chapter, cause I keep getting sidetracked. #TypicalSamantha. The idea of nutritional stress is really interesting though, I can't wait to read more! But, Hugh Jackman for the intro? Didn't see that one coming! 


Of course, reading all about nutrition stirred up my appetite to eat something Mr. Brazier would approve of! Enter my green monster of the day!

Thrive-Approved Green Monster:
-1c unsweetened rice milk (and now my box is empty, sucks.)
-1 banana
-1 scoop spirutein
-1 scoop chocolate greensuperfood from amazing grass (on sale at WF!)
-about half a box of spinach, this was no joke
-ice
-xanthan gum
-2 chia seeds
-topped with a scoop of peanut butter!


This bad boy was maaaasive! And thick, delicious, & tasty. After I finished this, I peaced out for a little to go watch my brother's lacrosse game! He's a sophomore at my school & is a starter on the team -- they're actually playing really well this year! What I think is so funny about lacrosse (or LAX) is the culture that goes along with it! All the preppy clothes, the flow, the chill bro life. Yes, Branford Winstonworth, I'm looking at you. "I mean, D1 is D1." Oh, but what's flow?

That would be flow -- the outrageously long hair on boys. My brother is a champ at growing it. (This is a picture of he & I at pre-prom, his practice let out just as we were finishing taking pictures!)


I left with about a quarter left in the game, cause my belly was grumbliiiin. Time for my dinner! And you know what? This Mom has the best dinner ideas. I had the Strawberry and Roasted Chickpea Salad from Mama Pea, and even with my modifications, it was darrrrn tasty (:

Spinach, strawbs, chickpeas, & almonds -- dressed in Annie's Lite Honey Mustard because I was too lazy to make my own --> why is this a trend in my life?!


I've got a date planned with the elliptical at my Mom's house in about thirty minutes, and Modern Family starts at 9! Oh, and everyone should watch Happy Endings which comes on at 10! I love that show (:


I'm gonna try to settle in with my book until it's ellipticizing time! Have a good night, dears!


Is lax popular where you live?
It's so huge here! Taking the city by storm (;
What's your favorite make-up product?
Mine's either the Buxom Lashliner I mentioned (which is supposed to help foster lash growth, and I think it kinda does!) or Bare Escentuals Warmth Face Color. It's like a super-easy super-pretty bronzer that is tough to mess up!
What's your favorite book?
I'm still looking for recommendations! I wanna read a ton before I leave for Clemson!


(:Samantha