This morning started out with a serious pain in my butt. Literally. While heading out to scrape the snow and ice off my car, my clumsy self got the best of me. Me + Ice = No Good Can Come of This!

slick stuff

I slipped on some ice and fell hard on my tush, along with a bang on my elbow and arm too. Not the best way to start a day, but I didn't let it get me down. Once I got back up off the concrete of course. 😉

After regaining feeling in my arm, some breakfast, and renewed vigor, I headed off to the gym with Miss M. She played with her favorite helper while I did a quick light walk on the treadmill and hit up Group Power. This is the first time I have done the lifting class but I really liked it. It is perfect for my current situation and I was hurting in a good way in no time. 😀 I definitely plan on continuing with the class atmosphere for the time being.

After class, the hurting part of my day stopped and instead turned into some hankerings. My first one was an urge to down something post workout. Enter a green monster smoothie. I have only recently tried these and quite enjoy them. I'm behind the times I know...but I always wait to see if something really sounds appealing to me before jumping on the bandwagon. I gave in because who doesn't want to get in more veggies?

Green Monster Fuel

Plus it is very delicious and energizing. And yes, I have given some to M and she has downed every sip right along with her momma. 😀 Yay for healthy eats!

At around 12 I got a call from a dear friend that I haven't seen in awhile asking if I would like to meet up for lunch. Definitely! I have been missing this gal for awhile and you could say I was hankering to get out of the house and have some girl time. 🙂

I ordered a California Salad that had spinach, spring mix lettuce, oranges, strawberries, cranberries, pecans, blue cheese, and grilled chicken with balsamic. This salad is perfection and is my all time favorite. Coupled with girl talk = more perfection.

Party in my Mouth!

• What are your favorite salad additions?
• Have you tried a Green Monster? What are you favorite ways to mix one up? I used the basic banana, unsweetened vanilla almond milk, couple big handfuls of spinach, and about 1/4c greek yogurt to thicken it up.
• What's your most embarrassing crash and burn moment? Today's pales in comparison to some of my falls. I once tripped over a snag in the carpet in front of my class and faceplanted. Doing that in a room of almost 30 highschoolers is not the most gracious moment of my life, that's for certain.

How was everyone's weekend? Did you do anything fun for Superbowl Sunday? Like I mentioned in yesterday's post, we went to my friend Nikki's new apartment. Her and her fiance moved in together about 2 months ago and decided to have people over for the Superbowl to see the apartment and also to celebrate their new engagement. It was a pretty fun time. I was happy to see her...even if she told me I would be wearing a watermelon colored dress for her September wedding. Oh, good gracious! I can only imagine how that is going to look, especially considering by that time I might actually have a watermelon belly filling out the watermelon colored dress. 😉

I didn't end up eating too many of the goodies at the game last night, because none of them were really all that delicious. I had one small cookie, like 4 or 5 buffalo bites (they were literally one small bite a piece), and 3 or4 little tortilla scoop bites of a black bean salsa. Makenzie enjoyed the black bean salsa....and a few licks of the icing from a cookie.

Don't worry - this is her normal favorite food. 😉

her beloved na-na

Also, this weekend I finished a book. All We Ever Wanted Was Everything by Janelle Brown.

This book started off much better than it ended. The story is about a mom and her two daughters and how they are each struggling in their own way after the father left them. It starts off where you are very sympathetic to the characters, but then things just keep going downhill and the book sadly turns frustrating and then suddenly ends with no real answers, good or bad, for how each of their issues are going to be resolved. I don't think I would recommend it.

Today was simply running a few errands (bank, post office) and then I have 1.5 hours of tutoring to do in just a bit. So I gotta get going. Happy Monday!

PS - I refused to join a sorority. At that time I had a mindset of I wasn't going to pay money to make friends. I had to put myself through school, so I had to save every penny and found ways to party on my own. 😉