It’s a Beautiful Morning!

Good morning beautifuls! My morning has been rocking so far. More internet shopping perusal (must place one mass order tonight!), breakfast, workout, cleaning, lunch and more!

Breakfast was two slices of Ezekiel cinnamon raisin bread with earth balance and cinnamon. Dori wrote that she loves putting coconut butter (or oil? can’t remember!) and cinnamon on top of her Ezekiel cinnamon raisin bread, and it sounded so delicious I decided to replicate it with what I had on hand (Earth Balance). Delicious!

It seems like all the equipment in our apartment gym is broken or breaking, so I’m back to jogging and walks as my main form of cardio. Today I went for thirty minutes of run three minutes walk a minute. When I got back home I did a very light (for me) strength training quickie – crunches on the stability ball, standing oblique flexions, overhead tricep extensions, bent over standing row (everything with weights was with 20 lbs). Definitely not thorough and no where near my “normal” but it’s all I had time for this morning.

Now I’m quickly eating my lunch of more savory oats. New obsesssion! Today’s had 1/3 cup oats, eggplant, spinach, tomato, black olives, mushrooms, garlic hummus and vegan cheeze! So creamy when all stirred up!

Frugal Tip of the Day! (#8?)

AMAZON!!! Amazon is a gift giver’s best friend. I was planning on avoiding online shopping because I hate having to pay for shipping. Well, I should have ditched store-shopping much sooner! I’ve been BFF with amazon last night and this morning, and not only have I found much better deals (saving a total of $10, at least, combined on three gifts) but everything I’ve found (and most everything on there currently) qualified for free super saver shipping (i.e. free shipping if you spend over $25 which is easy peasy if you’re buying for multiple people). The only problem is that you may be tempted to add more things to your cart as uh, gifts for uh, yourself. I may or may not have had a debate with myself about adding a pound of chia seeds to my cart. I’ve never tried chia seeds, and I really want to, but for the sake of budget and focusing on gifts for others, I decided not to. One day! (although honey, if you need any other gifts for me, I’ll be happy to add some chia seeds to my amazon cart and still act surprised Christmas morning!! )

What are you waiting for? Get shopping! (And have a beautiful day!)