Impromptu Dinner

Started off the morning with this green green juice!!

 1    cucumber
 2    stalks of celery
 3    leaves of kale
 1    granny smith apple
 1/4 lemon
 1    inch of ginger




Y'all, this juice was GROSS!!! Phillip and I dreaded it! I think we had too much celery in it :-/ You know how celery has that stench? It was overpowering!!! I'll have to figure out a way to modify and make it better without defeating the purpose of the juice!

Absolutely gross!!! This one was hard to drink!! After work, my mom called and said she's swinging by to show me her new car. She got a BMW X3. It's absolutely beautiful! It's not too big, not too small. She looks so fancy in it :) I can't believe all the technology that can go into cars now. She has no excuse for anything in that car!



Look at my mommie <===
She's so cute with her new BMW!!
Phillip and I were in awe of how nice the car was! We could only say to each other "some day...." I know my dad worked super hard to get that so good for them!

On a completely unrelated note...LOOK AT THIS NASTY MOTH THAT WAS ON MY WINDOW AT WORK!!! ewwwwwwwww sooo gross!! I have never seem such a big 'ol nasty thing!






















So back to being the silly family that we are! Mom and dad came by to show us the car and we had an impromptu dinner. Mom brought over seafood salad. (shrimp and scallop) and Phillip & I made truffle salt salmon and a side of miso-grapefruit bacon brussel sprouts! It was so healthy and delicious! But the best thing is that we got to spend some quality time talking and enjoying a meal. With the wedding being around the corner we really forget/don't have time to be just a family without planning for something or meeting with a objective for the wedding.

Phillip and I can't wait to be married, but I think we are so ready to go back to our life together where we were not planning a wedding! It's the last mile stretch! So, I won't be blogging until probably Monday since I'll be gone with my so very special dear friends in San Antonio!!! I am SO FREAKING EXCITED!!! Hopefully I'll survive!!

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  Roo   (='.'=) 
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I'm Just SO Hungry!

Good morning! So yesterday (9/23) We kick started our morning with a juice I could drink and actually enjoy!! We went ahead and made it the night before so we can sleep in!! I was FaceTiming with my soon-to-be-Mother-In-Law, Denise, and she was told by her holistic doctor that the nutrients of juicing escape after 24 hours :-/ So, if you're lazy like Phillip and I, not wanting to process juice every time you want to drink it, just make enough for 24 hours!

Ok so the drink we had for breakfast and snack calls for the following:

  1 cucumber
  2 leaves of kale
  2 apples
  3 cups of grapes
  1 inch of ginger


   (Remember that it seems like a lot more in the picture because we make servings of two, so everything is doubled!)

This time we had plentiful of juice!!! I think having grapes in the recipe can really change the amount of fluid. This was just so so yummy! We had it for breakfast, ate steak with my dad's teriyaki marinade and orzo pasta for lunch, and had like two mason glass full of this juice for dinner. Phillip and I lost to the battle of hunger, so we ended up eating the rest of our steak. (It was only like 4oz. of steak each).



So now for the stuff that no one wants to talk about. I'm hesitant to put this out there but currently I weigh 155 lbs. Eeek it's a cray number because I'm so used to being about 110 to max 120... Hopefully this juice cleanse/eating right will help me get to my goal!

Now other than eating healthy and juicing, I am so super excited about this weekend! My BACHLORETTE PARTY is this weekend!! (Why has the English language not accepted the word "bachlorette" yet? It keeps underlining that red squiggly telling me I spelled it wrong or the word does not exist!) My bunch of friends and I are going to have so much fun! SO much for a diet while I'm gone! But that's why it's important to keep up with goodness before and after :) I am so grateful for all the planning that has been done by my crew and I just can't wait until Thursday!

Other than the fun stuff, it's crazy how all these different things need to get done for a wedding! Phillip and I are constantly on the go! We need to make seating assignments, table numbers, finalize music, get with photographer, make programs, and literally think of anything that we've forgotten to do!

And the day goes on....

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  Roo   (='.'=) 
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I'm BACK with a BANG!!

Ok, so I totally forgot I even had a blog!!! I figured it wouldn't hurt to try and attempt my comeback!!

Update on life since 2011...I quit teaching because I simply just got burnt out from school politics. I miss the kids all the time. I'm in commercial real estate now. I met this really amazing man, and now I'm getting married to him!! Eeeeek!!!

So here we are, 25 more days to go until our wedding... and we decided to start a juice cleanse!!




Phillip and I hit up Ranch 99 (an Asian grocery store where $20 can buy you a whole week's worth of veggies!) and bought cucumbers, kale, limes, lemon, apples, granny smith apples, beets and ginger. I love it when one stop to the grocery store gets you everything you need :) We had at home: carrots, celery and grapes so no need to purchase. All of this only cost $24.68!!! Gotta brag about a good deal!







We chopped up the veggies so they would fit in the juicer. Peeled off the skin for the beet and lemon/lime!

4 leaves kale                              1 beet
1 cucumber                             1/4 lemon
1 Granny Smith apple              1/4 lime
1 carrot (20 baby carrots)

 So all of this juiced turned out to fill up to the rim of my reusable Starbucks Venti cup!! I was afraid that the juice would be horrific, but it turns out it's really not that bad. I mean, if I want to get fit, I've got to make sacrifices right? Although, I do love veggies so if you don't like veggies, this "juicing" thing is probably not for you!






My "Hunya" (Instead of calling each other "Hunny" like everyone else, it's our silly way of referring to each other...hahaha) cleaning the juicer! Which is as easy as a quick rinse and maybe grabbing a sponge with soap to gently clean the juicer's components. If he doesn't mind cleaning it, I'm sure it's easy!!


So what is really cool about the left over stuff is that you can REJUICE!! We got like a whole 8 oz. glass full by processing it two more times!! Perfect for a snack juice pre made!!!

Now these balls of "pulp" can be used for something more!! I just love getting to use things for multiple purposes! No wasting my $24.68!!

HEALTHY DOGGIE TREATS!!! You take the pulp, put it in a bowl, add some oil (just enough to help the veggie balls cook) make them into balls, put on a cookie sheet, bake at 350 degrees. If your balls are pretty moist, 30 minutes. If they are dry, 15 minutes. When they are done cooking, let cool... then SERVE to your pups!!! They wouldn't eat the treats raw, but they went crazy for it once it was cooked! Phillip and I tried one, but it was soooo grosss!!! Definitely doggie treats :)

Levi, Disney and Miley are

wanting more of  these treats!!

So we had this juice, the struggle was real towards 10:30 PM... I was really hungry and I was getting crabby! I was starting to get mean, but Phillip was so sweet in handling the hungry monster!! I lost the battle and had ONE COOKIE!! Yikes, but I'm sure that's really not going to affect the cleanse...? I guess we will see!!

CABO!!!

It is decided!! I'll be going to Cabo for Spring Break!!!! I'm so so excited! I'm going with my two best girlfriends and we are going to have the BEST TIME EVER!!

I love my two girls :) It'll be all inclusive so that's always fun and easy!! I can't wait! And the count down starts now!!

Oh and P.S. I officially lost 5 pounds :) You know how sometimes you weigh yourself after you work out and you think to yourself you've lost weight? Well this time I weighed myself after eating a hefty lunch and my weight was 5 pounds lighter!! WOHOOOO!! So excited to get back to my 109 :) Maybe I'll reach my new years resolution a lot sooner than expected!! WOOT WOOT :)

This has been such an amazing weekend! My best friend met a guy she really likes and has potential with, my spring break plans are now locked in, i lost 5 lbs, got to practice some Spanish with my dad's Bolivian friends, sang the night away at Tailgate, watched the Steelers win, heard a good sermon at church, went to lunch with my dad, hung out with some AMAZING people... let's just say I'm starting off this week on cloud nine :)

Genuine

So I'm looking at an old friend's engagement pictures and I can't help but smile ear to ear. My friend has always been a pretty girl but in these pictures she is BEAMING!! It really makes me look at how genuine her love is for her fiance :)

Usually, I would feel a little jealous looking at engagement pictures, but this time I felt a different kind of jealousy. It was almost like a jealousy from admiration. It wasn't any kind of envy, it brought hope in my heart. When I looked through all 57 pictures I thought to myself, I too want to find someone that can make me smile like my friend. Her smile was so flawless, so real, so kind, goodness it was beautiful.

Pictures say 1000 words right? All the 1000 words were of HAPPINESS.

I wish it wouldn't be creepy for me to post her pics up because I totally would!! The world should see her pictures because if your pictures don't speak the same language, I have to say it's not LOVE!!

I can't wait until the day my pictures turn out like that! :)

XOXO
Roo

Hello 2011!!

What has been happening in the life of Roo?


It's my second year teaching at my school and it has been fabulous. In the love life aspect, not so much :) But I did have the opportunity to sit down and talk to my ex which helped me realize a bunch of things. This year my goal is to lose some poundage that I gained in the past three years!! Yikes!! But I can do this!!

I'm also going to try and blog things out more often because I feel that this way I can really clear my thoughts and get down to what I really want to say! Plus blogging is like a cheap way of therapy :)

So here it goes...

I'm living with my dad since my mother is living in Japan taking care of my 92 year old grandmother. It's not too bad living with my dad since he understands that I'm an adult and lets me do whatever I want. It's just sometimes I want to have my own place!! Not for the privacy but I look at my house and realize that the furniture doesn't match, the wall needs to be a different color, the placing of the TV bothers me...and I just want to create my own place!! Being in college and getting to choose how my "home" looked for 4 years, this adjustment is unfavorable... But I guess I can't really complain :) My dad does make my life a lot better!

I got to spend 2 weeks with my mom and grandma in Japan.
(since my job as a teacher gives me a 2 week break over the winter!! Be jealous!!) I had such an amazing time with them. It was a little heartbreaking to see how much my grandmother has aged. She is 92... She walks really slow and has trouble getting up. She says she doesn't want to go anywhere because she can't handle long walks, and she's too prideful to be in a wheelchair. I can't understand what it feels like to be that old but I can only imagine what it feels like to have control of you body one day, and the next not being able to even operate chopsticks to eat your food. I am very thankful and blessed that I still have my grandmother, I just wish everything was easier for her.

Well today is my day off from work since it's MLK day! I should really clean up my messy room and start off the week right! I get to see my 3 gal pals tonight for dinner and I'm SO excited!! Lalalalala

XOXO
Roo

Yay I'm a teacher :)

Ok so after a bunch of D-R-A-M-A with being offered jobs at two different schools and both of them falling through, I am finally at a school and I absolutely LOVE it!! I'm so excited SO SO SOoooooOOOO excited!! The bad thing is it's a 30-40 min commute :-/ But this gives me time to have time with God and prepare myself for the day :) I'm totally excited!! I will update more soon... hopefully...


Good night and have a wonderful day tomorrow :)

XOXO
Roo