Dead Tired.

First things first:
I am sure you noticed that I redecorated. You like it?

I signed up for the October Go The Distance Challenge and I am excited! It is a challenge where you pick a distance and an exercise and try to meet your goals for October! My goal is to run/walk 50 miles throughout October. This means an average of 1.61 miles per day. So far I have been right on track. Ran 1.9 miles yesterday and the same today. I’m feeling really good about this month and recommend you check out that challenge for yourself.

I’ve been eating a lot of meals that look like this:

Simple and effortless.

If you look there, on the left, you will see some kind of white substance behind a makeshift tater-tot fence (to keep it out of the sweet potato fries). This was a dip made out of tofu. I didn’t like it, but I really just kind of threw it together based on a few online recipes. I also attempted to make pudding with the rest of the tofu, again based loosely on a few online sources but primarily my own experiment. That was disappointing as well, though it looked delicious. 


Today I took a trip to Office Max and Best Buy and bought myself: 8 new pens, speakers for my computer, ear buds to work out with, and a wireless headset. I was most excited about the headset, because I have been mute while playing World of Warcraft for a few months now. Turns out, after charging it for three hours and plugging it in, the headset was crap. When trying to talk to my online friends, I sounded like a static robot. So I’m taking it back tomorrow and going to try a good old-fashioned wired headset.

Bummer.

And to make my day EVEN BETTER, Work was completely slammed. I was working, hard and without any rest, all night. I know that sounds normal, working at work, but the pizza kitchen gets hectic and I really wasn’t built to be moving and on my feet for hours at a time. My knee mysteriously started hurting at the end of the night and now I am walking with a kind of limp due to the pain.

Don’t worry.

I am sure I will be fine.

Now I know how Doctor House feels ._. I hope people don’t start calling me ‘gimpy’.
‘Til next time.

Did you have a good day?

Easy Peasy

I haven’t really COOKED anything in the past few days. I mean I have, but they have all been easy things, with very little prep. I have just been feeling lazy. This could be due to my recent “re-addiction” to World of Warcraft. I haven’t played much all summer but now the fire has been lit in me once again.
In related news, my headset broke, which means no voice chat for me until I get a new one. Just randomly stopped working one day :(
Now, on to what you’re REALLY interested in (I think): Food.
Recently my mother cracked open a can of pumpkin to make a smoothie. She used probably 1/16th of the can and told me to find a use for the rest of it. One use I have found for the leftover pumpkin is Ohsheglows’ Pumpkin Pie Oats. The first time I made them, I forgot the syrup, so they weren’t sweet enough! I was frustrated, and since it was a reader top rated recipe I knew I had done something wrong. So I revisited the recipe and corrected my mistake.
It was pretty awesome, and it DID taste like pumpkin pie!

I took a picture of my new running shoes (I LOVE pink).

I also discovered a few delicious things at the grocery store yesterday. One of these delicious things was a box of Thai food.
Me and Thai food have a rocky relationship. I don’t usually like Thai food, but it always LOOKS tasty, so I try it and then I think “Eh, why did I try that, I knew I didn’t like it…” I have the same problem with cheesecake (At least I did, before I stopped consuming dairy. I guess there’s still vegan ‘cheesecake’ though). However, this box of Thai food was an exception.

I wasn’t a big fan of the peanut topping (I didn’t like having ‘crunchy’ on top of my soft noodles), but the flavor was excellent. I actually grabbed two boxes of Thai food, in different flavors, but I didn’t read the ingredients thoroughly enough and discovered when I got home that the other flavor wasn’t vegan. It had anchovies in it. Don’t make the same mistake I did! Different “flavors” of foods have different ingredients!
Item number two:

Throwback mountain dew. Made with REAL sugar! No HFCS in this baby. Still not healthy, but oh so satisfying.
I saved the best for last.

Smoked Jalapeno and Garlic Hummus. It tasted SO MUCH like Nacho cheese bean dip that (even though it had “vegan” written right on the container) I had to re-read the ingredients several times to make sure there was no cheese in it. I have been chowing down on this stuff like crazy, I can’t get enough. Danielle at work also tried some and loved it so much that she went out and got some for herself that very night! I am very eager to try and make this from scratch, because the little tub was pretty spendy!
I have not done much else, but I have recipes I want to try so I have to convince myself to do some cooking before the week is up! Until next time :)
What is your favorite chip dip? Veggie dip? Dip that is good on ANYTHING?