If yesterday was successful, today was lazy and sleepy. And it was perfect. Seriously perfect.
Tomorrow is the first day I’ll be teaching at my evening job. (Last week was training.) I’m a little nervous, so I decided to spend the day having fun to take my mind off of work.
There will be more than enough time to think about work tomorrow, I decided.
You guys already know I’m obsessed with oatmeal for breakfast.

Tried out a “new” breakfast this morning. PB & J oatmeal. I just cooked up my 1/2 cup of oatmeal with 1 1/2 cups water and added in a tablespoon of peanut butter and about 2 tablespoons of grape jelly.
It was so tasty. The flavor wasn’t really strong, but the jelly gave the oatmeal the perfect amount of sweetness.
Ate the bowl while watching Glee, of course. I’m afraid I may be addicted. I finished episode 4 this morning. The girl who plays Rachel has the most amazing voice, seriously!
New obsession, for sure. Too bad it’s still season 1, so there’s not a ton of episodes out yet.
I tried to go back to bed, but after laying there for half an hour and never falling asleep I gave up. That’s my second nap-fail this week! I used to be an expert napper… I’m down on my game!
I fit in 15 minutes of upper body strength training after I got up.
My ST routine today included two sets of the following:
- close-arm wall pushups
- tricep dips with straight legs
- reverse plank
- two-part pushups
- one arm side pushups
I got in a good workout without the gym… I’m a fan. Do any of you use wall pushups? I’ve always kind of looked down on that exercise as a “wimpy” version of the real thing, but man my arms were burning when I finished those today.
I finally peeled my p.j.’s off around 12:30. Real clothes and lunch time were in order.
Yog-mess for lunch and man was it delicious.

I used some of the sample I received from Kashi of their Oat Bran and Wild Blueberry Clusters cereal.
In my bowl:
- a little over a cup of plain low-fat yogurt
- 1/3 cup of granola
- 1/2 sample package of Kashi
- 1 tablespoon of Hodgson Mill Wheat Germ with Cinnamon and Flax
- 1/2 cup of pomegranate arils
Can you tell I’m obsessed with my new find? I love the taste and texture of the pomegranate. And it doesn’t hurt that each 1/2 cup is 5 grams of fiber!
The Kashi cereal tasted really good in this mixture. I tried a blueberry cluster before stirring it all together and I liked the taste. I don’t know that I would buy these on a regular basis, though, because I like my Go Lean Crunch.
But now it’s time to get to work on today’s bit project: Christmas cards
Ideally, I would like to have these ready to mail tomorrow, but that may not happen. I do know we have to go back to the store and buy another set of cards because these aren’t enough for our family and friends.
(P.S. Isn’t the Santa card adorable?)
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My husband’s empty jar of chunky Skippy made breakfast a no-brainer.

Oats in a jar=my favorite breakfast.






I’m calling these Happy Thanksgiving Oats because they tasted just like ‘fall’ to me. Unlike my usual method of just dumping everything in the rice cooker and letting it go for about half an hour, this afternoon I used a pot and my stove to cook up my oatmeal.



Our apartment only has a 2-range stovetop and a small microwave oven. It would have taken a miracle to prepare an American-style Thanksgiving meal and still have hot food by the time we were ready to eat. We talked it over a few weeks ago and decided to go out to eat.
Dinner=lunch because we’re eating ramen with our adoptive Japanese family tonight.

J had the chocolate cone and I chose the chocolate/nut cone. 