Time for a winter break edition of a day in the life! It’s been a while since I’ve done one, plus I usually show you busy days, but I thought I’d switch it up a little. And, of course, I’ll be back with a winter quarter day in the life (or two) once school picks back up.
6:30 am – Wake up way too early for the time I fell asleep. Can’t go back to sleep
7:00 am – Go downstairs and lie on my parents’ bed. Complain to them that I haven’t slept properly since coming home, so I clearly need to go back to school tomorrow. I’m sort of kidding, but I’m really not sleeping and it’s the worst.
7:15 am – Wander down to the kitchen and ask what my dad’s plan is. He says he’ll eat and walk Pippa and then we can go to the gym. I consider whether or not I need food before that, and decide that I’ll be way past hungry after my workout if I don’t. Usually I’d offer to walk Pippa, but the boot on my ankle makes it hard to move suddenly if she decides she wants to go somewhere or do something unexpected.
I eat a SquareBar (love love love) and drink some water while reading blogs and waiting on him.
8:02 am – Work out. Today I alternate elliptical intervals with upper body lifting. It feels good.
9:10 am – We get back home. I take a shower and for some reason unbeknownst to me put on makeup. I’m planning to go to a hot yoga class at noon, so the makeup makes little sense. Whatever.
9:43 am – Make breakfast.
10:01 am – Eat and read blogs.
10:38 am – Start drying and putting away the dishes my dad is washing.
10:45 am – Pack up a secret santa gift I need to take to the post office. Use way too much packing tape because I am the worst at packing and/or wrapping things.
11:16 am – Eat a Health Warrior Chia Bar because my dad just made lunch and I feel myself starting to get hungry, but don’t want a full meal in my stomach for yoga.
I won’t get home until at least 2:00, though, so I need something.
11:22 am – Head to yoga. Repeatedly ignore Waze because I actually know where I’m going. Frankly, this is a surprise even to me. I might be in my hometown, but I never paid attention to how we traveled around when I was a kid, so I’m still learning my way around. Sad but true.
11:50 am – Get to yoga. Stay in the car because Keith Urban is on the radio and I like Keith Urban.
11:53 am – Go inside and toss my stuff in a locker.
12:00 pm – Yoga! I don’t know how to feel about the class. I wasn’t crazy about the teacher, but we actually spent a lot of time on headstands and handstands, which I’m too hesitant to work on by myself, so it turned out to be kinda fun.
1:02 pm – Chat with one of the other students about the boot. Head to the post office to mail my secret santa gift.
1:35 pm – Stand in line because it’s the season of sending stuff. Listen to a very awkward, rude encounter during which an older man bashed a total stranger and an entire religion because she was talking about Christmas gifts.
1:50 pm – Go to the grocery store next door to get Greek yogurt and sweet potatoes.
2:16 pm – Get home, pull the recycling bin up to the garage, get the mail, and unload my car. Eat a handful of dying baby peppers.
Immediately start making dinner. It’s a whole chicken in the crockpot and it’s the easiest and tastiest thing in life.
2:40 pm – Take a super quick shower. Laze around on my bed for a little bit.
3:15 pm – Eat something kinda resembling lunch, but smaller.
{Plantain chips, kraut, chicken sausage, ham}
4:03 pm – Eat Greek yogurt and a cashew caramel cluster. Oh, and a sixth of a Lily’s coconut chocolate bar.
4:15 pm – Get distracted by a bottomless inbox. Write most of this post.
5:04 pm – Try to help my mom wrap gifts. Fail, partially because I’m hopeless at wrapping gifts, partially because my dog wants to cuddle, and partially because my attempt at a small lunch was a mistake and I’m so hungry. I snack on Greek yogurt, pistachios, and about 5 cookies while petting my dog and watching The Crown.
6:05 pm – Toss broccoli in coconut oil, salt, and pepper, and roast it for dinner.
6:36 pm – Ask my mom to tear apart the chicken while I get the broccoli out of the oven.
6:45 pm – Dinner time. I swear I took pictures of my plate but they’re nowhere to be found. I assume you know what falling-apart tender chicken and crispy broccoli look like.
7:13 pm – Blog. Finish The Crown – too soon.
7:53 pm – Start watching the Blue Jackets game. It started a while ago, but now we can fast forward through the commercials.
8:14 pm – Get a simple snack of sweet potato and apple and almond butter.
Make myself some tea. Watch hockey.
9:18 pm – Be a bad hockey fan and go to bed, even though the game isn’t over, hoping I can actually get a reasonable amount of sleep.
Crispy broccoli, cookies, puppy cuddles, and @corepoweryoga. #wiaw #SweatPink Share on XYour turn:
One big cookie or a bunch of little ones? I tend to make little ones to give myself the option of having just a taste… and then occasionally have a bunch anyway.
Three things you did yesterday? Three things you ate?
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Little cookies. If they are little, you can have more 😀 I love that you included your lay down in your parents bed, lol (Hope you sleep better, btw). You should talk to Erica about square bar, I believe she has the hook up!
Volume eating for the win ? Ooh thanks. I’ll have to talk to her!
I rather have little cookies but hate making cookies so I usually make cookie bars.
LOL I understand. Making cookies can be quite time consuming.
Thanks for reminding me I haven’t made a whole chicken in the crockpot in awhile. I love how easy it is!
It’s the best! Almost easier than even a storebought rotisserie chicken!
Ok, so I sometimes love a HUGE cookie, but most of the time I love making small cookies for my family. 🙂 It sounds like you had a really low-key blessed day at home.
Praying that you might be able to sleep. <3
My FAVORITES are those big ol’ cookies in a skillet covered with vanilla ice cream, but those are a once-in-a-while thing. Little cookies are perfect for more often. 🙂
I love those little mini sweet peppers!! They’re so yummy. And I need to try those Square bars! Hope you’re having fun in Ohio! 🙂
Baby peppers are my faves 🙂 I highly recommend SquareBars! They’re probably a little higher in sugar, but they’re oh so tasty!
Boo to not sleeping well! I often find when I’m sleeping somewhere different (even if it’s at home after being on vacation), it takes me a while to adjust and really sleep well again. Jesse has this theory that it’s your body’s defense mechanism – because you’re in unfamiliar surroundings it doesn’t let you sleep fully in case you’re attacked or some such yadayada 😛
Little anythings are always better in my opinion. Cupcakes, cookies, muffins – you name it. Why? Probably because you can eat a bunch and don’t have to worry about them falling apart 😛
I like Jesse’s theory ? I mean, it makes sense from a scientific standpoint.
YES to mini baked goods. They’re so cute 😀
A lot of little cookies for sure! I feel like they last longer that way 😉 . Yesterday I went to school, went to my track meet, and got to bed wayyy to late. Can’t wait until my winter break starts! The best thing I ate yesterday was Honey Love Grown O’s with almond milk in a mostly-empty jar of Crunchy Barney Butter. AMAZING combo!!
xxMeah
That cereal jar/bowl sounds amazing ?
Seems like a nice kinda day. Today I watched lots of TV because I’m feeling sick 🙁 I also made Christmas cake for my mum and did laundry. What a day 😛
I hope you’re feeling better now! The happiest of new years to you!
Little everything – from cookies to pancakes – is always better. More the merrier 🙂 And yesterday I: wrote a blog post, went for a long hike in the snow and played far too many games of Words with Friends. I ate: a smoothie bowl, lots of avocado and roasted veggies!
I only learned about little pancakes when I started making them myself. My dad always made HUGE plate-sized pancakes, but I’m not skilled enough to flip those 😉 I agree about mini food, anyway!
Sounds like such a lovely day!
I feel like I missed something. Who did you go to the gym with?
Sorry if that wasn’t clear! My dad 🙂
Ahh, sorry it was probably me! 🙂
No worries!
Little cookies for sure! That way I can snack on them throughout the day (and pretend like I’m only going to eat 1 or 2 and then end up eating half the batch because.. cookies.) So glad you liked my bailey’s cookies.. your drizzle game is ON POINT.
Hahaha I might’ve made that “eat half the batch” move with your cookies 🙂