Picnic Antics.

When the weather is beautiful, I want to LIVE outside.  Which is why I jumped at the opportunity for a lunch picnic with Christie today after Express Spin (sweat FACTORY!)

Vegan Chocolate Coconut Scone (say that three times fast AND without drooling.) Strawberries, and some Siggi’s!

Do we even need to TALK about how good this was?!?!  Seriously.  If food is a drug which I sometimes believe, then I want to melt this down on a spoon…and inject it into my body on a thrice daily basis.  (A bit graphic, but you get the general gist)

Siggi’s was great as always!

Christie thought it was funny how my Yogurt varieties were broadening.  First Greek, now Icelandic…where to next?!?! 

It was the perfect picnic date!

Good food, good scenery.

After some lunch, we headed down to the Starbizzle, which I am fully keeping in business by purchases of Passion Fruit Tea, and Iced Coffees.

Sipping Starbucks while tanning AND laughing?!?!  Sounds pretty ballin’ to me.

Headed back to the YMC-izzle for a much needed shower! (Did I mention my water has been out at my house for 2 days?!?!  Yikes.)

Once work had begun, it was time to snack pre-dinner:

That is some pure, chocolate, chia, lovin.  (sorry for the blurriness.)

Other than that…the night was purely un-eventful.  Worked on more stuff for Eight To The Eight’s, and munched on this Taco Salad BEAST from Salsarita’s for dinner:

PS, I love their idea of “light cheese”  ahh well.

Friday is IN SIGHT bloggies, let’s hold it together. 

Paper….Plastic……..BOX!

All the cool kids get their groceries put in boxes these days, I mean come on now people.

I forgot my plastic bags this morning, so I just had the girl put my stuff in a big box they had lying around.  Reason #45676 that I love the Earth Feezy.

Did I mention they had my fay-voh-rite chocolate on sale?!?!

AND my favorite booty!

Score!  Lucky day or what?!  I also picked up a scone to have later for lunch.  This was a new one at Earth Fare, and all I had to see were two words to know I was instantly sold:

Coconut.  Chocolate.  I don’t even think I read the rest of the description before snatching one up (notice the empty spot up front….that one became MINE!)

Check out the loot:

Now it is time to rewind a bit, before grocery fun-time…I had 6:00am spin!  Great sweat sesh as always, and Kimmy was there which made it even better!  Check out this sunrise as I was leaving the gym:

Pretty groovy, huh?

We headed to our favorite Mermaid for some caffeine:

Now *this* is my idea of how to drink coffee.

Comfy chair = good times.

After the gym/grocery session I headed back to the casa to throw together some Triple Chocolate Oatmeal!  With two Spin classes to teach today plus a 3 mile run with Steph…it was carbo load time (which I will find any excuse for)

1/2 Cup Oats

1 Cup Chocolate Almond Milk

1 Banana (nuked for 2 minutes prior to putting in)

2 TBSP Chia Seeds

Sprinkling of Mocha Madness Trail Mix

Drizzling of Maranatha Dark Chocolate Almond Spread

Sooooooo good.  Hands down my favorite way to make oats!

Also, I didn’t get a chance to update last night…work was insane!  I got to try a new probable obsession, Passion Fruit Tea! (with jealous on-lookers in the background…the tea is MINE…back off.  ;-) )

Snacked on some Chobani and Annie’s Puff goodness…

And had the classic Panera standby for dinner.  Fuji Chicken Apple Salad Sans Chicken.  ;-)  Anyone else craving salads/cold things like whoa now that is starting to warm up?!?!

Whole grain baguette goodness on the side:  (check out the millet/flax…looooove!)

So there is your quick recap for last night!  Sorry for the randomness of this post!  :-)

Also, we have finalized a logo for our city-wide weight loss program this summer:

Doesn’t it look fabulous?!?!?!  I am so excited.

The official blog for the program is now online, although with very limited information.  I am posting the application today…and we start promoting it this week!  I was in the paper today!  woot woot!  (I will try and track down an online version of it for you guys!)  I am so beyond stoked.

Check out the blog! (Again…more information to come soon)

Eight To The Eight’s

Have a good one bloggies!  It’s time to prep for Express Spin, and get ready for a looooooong day.  Bring it, Wednesday.  ;-)