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Sunday Is A Good Day

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I don’t know about you, but I love Sundays.

sundaydog

Especially when you can wake up to this face. Annie is the best little snuggler…. she may be a lab, but she’s only 40 pounds and has the lap-dog mentality.

Another reason is because usually Sundays means grocery shopping. Call me crazy, but I really like grocery shopping.. I mean really like it. Maybe it’s a form of retail therapy? I’m so methodical with it, I wouldn’t doubt that there is some kind of therapy-effect going on.

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As if I weren’t already crazy about my meal planning and shopping strategy, I found this fun template for weekly meal planning (what’s wrong with me!) from This Week For Dinner. I swear I’m not usually this organized, maybe I’m finally starting to, gasp… grow up.

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How cute is that? Help me.

Side note: I don’t know if I ever mentioned this before but I like to try and make “heartier” dinners. This is mostly for Andrew’s benefit, but I also tend to eat lighter lunches most days. When I’m at the hospital getting free lunch, everyday it’s a giant salad… what can I say? When you give a foodie free vegetables…

Anyway, the one thing I don’t like about Sundays is the beginning of to-do lists for the week. This afternoon was dedicated to finishing up my case study from trauma ICU that’s due by tomorrow morning. I hate wading through journal articles to find references. Just 5 more months Em… 5 more months! So close, yet so far.

What do you love about Sundays?

Sunday Mish-Mosh

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Good morning and happy Sunday my lovelies!

 

I actually love Sundays, especially this one because, thanks to having MLK day off tomorrow, it’s really like ‘Saturday’ all over again.

Also, Sundays always makes me think of the U2 song ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’ (which by the way, the anniversary is coming up)

 

And yes, on Friday’s I commonly think of ‘Friday I’m In Love’

 

Anyway, I wanted to recap on my workouts for the week. Typically this happens on Fit Fridays but I had an afternoon appointment for allergy retesting and I thought I could workout after but, well I was wrong, and then my whole day was shot.

Sunday: OFF

Monday: 2.5 mile run

Tuesday: Nike+ Kinect fit test and random bonus drills

Wednesday: 4 mile run

Thursday: two round of Nike+ strength training (45 minutes total)

Friday: OFF, as my back looked like this…

Yes, every black marker dot you see is where they stabbed me with a needle.

Saturday: 5 mile run! Building up the miles again.

 

In case you were wondering, I’m still allergic to pretty much everything in the environment (no food allergies). A few years ago I was tested to get allergy shots in order to manage my symptoms. I decided to do the re-testing because it’s been about a year and a half since moving to Florida, a totally new climate for my poor allergies. Turns out ragweed is one of my top offenders, and as opposed to being in season only in the Fall in Michigan, it is year-round here in Florida. Wonderful!

 

What’s your favorite ‘day-of-the-week’ song?

Do you suffer from allergies of any kind?

Sunday Funday

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Thanks so much for all your comments on my post yesterday regarding iron, I knew I could count on you guys for some solid input!

As for now, I’m going to play around with my diet a little more rather than taking a supplement. If my symptoms of fatigue continue, Ill definitely see a doc and run a blood test but I do truly believe it’s low iron. Also, vitamin C is a huge support in iron absorption and after dissecting my recent diet a bit more, I realized that I’ve been pretty low on that too.

A thick and hearty bolognese sauce over whole wheat pasta was my quick-fix for beef last night. I usually use a half pound lean ground beef when making pasta but I used a whole pound this time. Beefy.

Anyway, today I slept in even later than yesterday.. 10am! It’s so sad, in college I thought that was waking up at a decent time on the weekends, now it makes me feel like I wasted the day! What has happened to me…

When we were finally up and moving, we set out to run some quick errands. But of course, had to stop at Einstein’s for some coffee first. Pumpkin latte please! Andrew was also craving a bagel sandwich.

He called me a weirdo for taking a picture of our coffees, so I snapped a picture of him stuffing his face. HA. Punk.

After running around to Target, Publix and CostCo… (which, by the way, remind me to NEVER go to any of those places the weekend before Thanksgiving.. what was I thinking?) we head back home for a hefty day of cleaning. Along with everything else, we cleaned out the fridge and, well, it was bad. On the bright side though, I now have much more tupperware to use.

Now I’m working on a batch of baklava.. my signature dish for the holidays.

But that’s perfect for me to share tomorrow for a Monday Munchies post…

Have a good night everyone!

How did you spend your Sunday?