What I Ate Wednesday

In an attempt to work on my food photography and because I enjoy these posts from other bloggers…I present to you my first What I Ate Wednesday!

Breakfast at the hotel: Raisin Bran with skim milk and a banana.

Iced coffee from Starbucks on the way to the office.

Lunch from Chipotle: A burrito bowl with brown rice, black beans, peppers and onions, pico de gallo, corn, medium salsa and sour cream.

Snack time!

Dinner at Outback: Classic sirloin with green beans and sauteed mushrooms and onions

The bar at Outback doesn’t provide the greatest lighting for taking a picture of what you’re eating but you do what you can I suppose.  At least the new Dreaming Tree wine I tried was good!

Tuesday In Topeka

I’m in Topeka, Kansas for work this week.  Since March I’ve been coming here 2 weeks per month.

If you’ve never been to Kansas, when you come you’ll see a lot of this:

Lots of farmland, some cows and a ton of support for the two major universities here!

As this is my 6th trip out here, I’ve tried to expand my restaurant picks and tonight tried a new place.  I met two co-workers at Blind Tiger Brewery.  I had their Raspberry Wheat beer and the Texas Roadrunner plate.  The beer was the perfect amount of sweetness, sometimes fruit beers are too sweet for my liking.  The Texas Roadrunner was a recommendation by one of them and was so delicious.  It consisted of chicken topped with brisket topped with buffalo sauce and melted cheese.  It sounds like such an odd combination but it totally works.  Sides were black beans and rice. If you like wheat beers Boulevard Wheat is another discovery I’ve made on my trips here.

With all this eating out I’ve been doing lately I really need to get back into a consistent workout routine!  Plan of attack to come.

What is your favorite wheat beer?

What do you do to get yourself back on track with workouts?

Weekend In Review

Happy Monday!

The weather, except for about half an hour when it poured rain on Saturday afternoon was so beautiful this weekend!

I started it off by enjoying a mojiito for Happy Hour on the patio at A Town on Friday with my friend Neha.  This was only my second time there, but I definitely need to go back!  Afterwards I walked over to the nail salon for a manicure.  I spent the rest of the night catching up on the DVR while Zac was at the hockey game.  Love the pink!

Does anyone else watch Smash?! This week’s episode was SO sad.  I’m totally not a sap about movies and TV shows like my sister Molly, but I definitely had a tear about Kyle.

Saturday was lunch with my friend Emilie before the longest hair appointment ever.  But, I’m a nice bright blonde for summer.  We made enchiladas for dinner and snuggled up on the couch to watch Silver Linings Playbook.  Such a good movie, I loved it!  I can definitely see why Jennifer Lawrence won all the Best Actress Awards for it.

From here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Silver_Linings_Playbook

Sunday morning we woke up bright and early to try one of the two churches near us followed by a pancake breakfast at IHOP.  Dinner was this recipe.  If you’ve never made them, do it tonight.  Sometimes its fun to eat kid food made for adults right?  Especially with carrot fries on the side!

From here: http://www.skinnytaste.com/

I picked up one at the library and bought one for my Kindle, but I’ve got two books to read for some upcoming book clubs.  I’m reading Life After Life and The American Way of Eating.  I’ll post my thoughts on them as I finish them.

What are some kid-friendly foods you still enjoy?

What are you reading?

You Have to Start Somewhere

Well, you have to start somewhere.  I’ve thought about starting a blog off and on for a while.  I read a few of them most days and figured if I liked them so much, that I should start my own.

But what would I write about?  What ‘type’ of blogger would I be?  I’m not a runner by any means.  Although I’ve run two races since moving here, I haven’t done much running since that second race.  I try and get to yoga once a week but that doesn’t always happen.  I did try Bikram yoga for the first time on Tuesday and oh man it was intense!  I don’t come up with recipes of my own or cook anything fancy for dinner.  I don’t repurpose my weekend flea market trip finds nor am I much of a fashionista (I leave that to my younger sister).  Rather than focusing on all the things I’m not, I’ll just write what I am, which will probably be a little bit of everything.

Mostly, I want to keep track of all the things for wedding planning as well as get into more consistent healthy living habits so I feel and look my best on the big day and beyond.  I also want to chronicle my life in a new city, living with my fiancé for the first time and making new friends.

Thinking of a name for your blog much harder than you’d think!  I wanted it to be something that allowed me to continue the blog after the wedding if I wanted.  I also wanted something original and that didn’t box me in to a certain type of blog.  Or course I made a list of some possibilities.  Chronicles of a List Maker was born!  For me, making lists keeps me organized.  Whether it’s a list of things to accomplish on a certain day or what groceries to buy or what events I have going on during the week, I make a list.

The next question was when to write my first post?  I thought I’d start on a Monday, or at the beginning of the month, or even on some milestone date, like one year away from our wedding.  But if I waited for the ‘right’ time then there never would be one.

So, I’m starting today, Friday May 10th.