Monsoon!!

Happy Monday. (is that an oxymoron?)

I started my day off at 7 AM spinning. I’m finding it to be an interesting experiment going to a spinning class whilst still half asleep. This is partly a good thing because before I know it the class is over (and I’m only just starting to be fully alert). But it is also potentially not so good if my rate of exertion is directly proportional to my level of awakeness, i.e. not so hot…… For some reason, when I do strength training in the AM, or yoga, I don’t mind so much. Tuning out mentally doesn’t really matter. But huffing and puffing on a bike feels exceptionally more difficult when my body still thinks it’s in bed.

Here’s hoping this old sack of bones gets used to it.

Breakfast was so… watery? But delicious, thanks in so small part to my homemade pumpkin butter.

 

• 1/3 c. rolled oats
• 1/4 c. buckwheat groats
• too much water..
• 1/2 banana
• 1 spoonful peanut butter (TJ’s pb + flax)
• 1 spoonful pumpkin butter

The pumpkin butter is a lot thicker than the Trader Joe’s stuff I demolished last week – it’s actually more like the consistency of unwarmed caramel sauce or thick hot fudge, dense and a little sticky. It’s also spicier, which pleases me much.

So yes, the verdict is: AWESOME (and much cheaper than TJ’s!).

For lunch I had one of those salads that, when the topping is being mixed in, makes the most unpleasant goopy sounds (which was kind of embarrassing back when only a foot of air and a short cubicle wall separated my face from the guy’s next door).

A random, goopy mix:

• romaine
• 1/2 spaghetti squash
• hummus + nooch + salsa

But so good.

And for the sweet quotient -

Monster Oatie! Made with walnuts, apricots, and cranberries. Mmm.

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**THIS POST IS BEING INTERRUPTED BY THE MOST INSANE & FRIGHTENING STORM CURRENTLY WREAKING HAVOC ON MY NEIGHBODHOOD**

A MONSOON of hail and thunder and lightening just finished pillaging Brooklyn…. Honestly I thought our windows were going to break in because of the golfball sized hail bashing into it. It was BOOMING down on our roof… my roommate and I were literally dancing around screaming our heads off, quite sure our old brownstone would crumble under this freak weather bomb. I am shocked our internet/electricity/cat are still alive.

I tried to get some pictures of the deluge…

…yeah not the greatest shot, but if it looks kinda like hell, well that’s pretty close.

And now it looks like it snowed:

INSANITY.

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Aaaaanyway, back to less exciting things.

A pear.

Dinner of steamed broccoli and red cabbage, with garlic hummus and raisins (I don’t know why but I love that combo).

And a very autumnal dessert jar of greek yogurt, applesauce, some pumpkin butter, and TJ’s ginger cats (yummm!)

(Times deux.)

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This all seems so inconsequential after the apocalypse of a few minutes ago. :p

So what’s the freakiest weather you’ve ever seen? This was honestly one of the craziest bouts I’ve ever seen (and heard!!)…. and I’ve seen tornadoes in Oregon, aka where tornadoes do NOT happen.

Let’s hope things calm down before I have to walk around out there tomorrow….

Nighty night!

x

 

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