Iowa Girl Eats

TGIF!
It’s a cozy warm freezing cold 62 degrees in the crib this morning! You guys are so smart. We totally have a programmable thermostat and I completely forgot to use it all winter long! Oh well, better late than never, eh? I’ve now got my house completely hooked up:
5am-9am: 65 degrees
9am-4:45pm: [...]

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I love the Internet.
As I was eating my lovely salad this afternoon, I kept getting slapped in the face by large, rogue pieces of lettuce. Which wouldn’t be too bad – but they were covered in dressing, you know? I couldn’t help but wish that the pre-washed & bagged lettuce I use for my salads [...]

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Dinner was epic!
First – a workout… I hit the gym after work to try a new treadmill routine incorporating hills (inclines) that I found on FitSugar. My abs have been so sore since incorporating an 8% incline in my Tuesday morning workout, so I knew it was going to be good! I made [...]

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Happy New Year’s eve!

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Not to be a Debbie Downer, but most New Year’s eves in recent memory have been epic failures. There’s something about the evening of December 31st that’s doomed to never turning out the way you thought it would. This year, however, my luck is going to change. Ben and I are [...]

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Hey-o! How’d your Friday go?
Talk about the perfect day…

Insane workout
Good eats
Leisurely afternoon
70 degree weather!

Seriously – it is June up in here! I had all the windows and doors open this afternoon to let the warm breeze in. It was the cherry on the day-off cake.
But let’s start with that workout! About an hour [...]

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