Another day off, another blog post!
Today was a nice relaxing day, I wasn’t as sore from my run yesterday as I had expected so I cleaned up a little bit around the house, and caught up on my google reader.
Lunch was a spinach salad with cherry tomatoes, parmesean cheese and Annie’s Goddess Dressing (my FAVORITE!!!) with a Boca Burger (with cheese!) and a little bit of brown rice with black beans and alfredo sauce that I had left over. Small portions of each but oh so delish.
Later, I went to a nice yoga class with my coworker at Blissful Buddha Yoga here in Stamford. It’s a newer studio but a couple of other coworkers had mentioned that we should reach out to them so her and I went and had an amazing – PRIVATE session since there was no one else in the class.
The instructor Elyse was AMAZING. She was so positive and so inspiring and just…I left feeling so positive about life in general. I mean, she was so “what will be will be” and so “take power of your life” yadda yadda yadda and I know I believe in all that, but sometimes I forget to take action on it all.
Sometimes I forget that everything happens for a reason, and sometimes I forget that I don’t have to settle for anything uncomfortable – be it in a yoga pose or in life in general. Sometimes, I think we all forget that.
I left feeling so very empowered, so very positive.
So coworker drove me home and we were talking about our goals and such, and as we pulled in we realized we had forgotten that we were going to go for coffee instead.
Coffee turned into Margs. Celebrating once de Mayo! I know there’s no such thing, but we hadn’t celebrated Cinco de Mayo so it turned into Once de Mayo. Why not right? So we had some chips and margs while talking about goals.
Later, I came home, cooked a DELISH veggie lasagna (thanks Broke Ass Gourmet for the recipe!!)
{lasagna with wine. Mmm.}
Recipe:
- 1 c. ricotta (I used skim)
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- 1 small zuchinni, sliced into 1/8-inch thick rounds
- 1 small eggplant, sliced into 1/8-inch thick rounds
- 1 lb package small square potsticker wrappers
- 4 ounces shredded mozzarella
- 1 14 oz can simple tomato sauce
- a few leaves of fresh basil, chopped
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
Mix the ricotta together with the salt and the pepper until evenly distributed (I mixed mine with Italian seasoning for some extra flavor)
Preheat a pan over high heat. Heat the olive oil. Sprinkle the veggie pieces with the salt and cook in pan until soft and browned on both sides, about 3 to 4 minutes per side.
To assemble the lasagna:
Line the bottom of an 8” by 8” foil, Pyrex or metal baking dish with a couple spoonfuls of the sauce. Lay a single layer of potsticker wrappers over that. Next scatter about a cup of the veggies over top, then an even layer of the ricotta mixture. Repeat layers twice and top it all of with more mozzarella. Add a smattering of the basil leaves.
Bake covered with aluminum foil for about 30 minutes. Carefully remove foil and return to the oven for an additional 5 minutes until the cheese is bubbly and lightly browned in spots.
{Recipe via Broke Ass Gourmet}
Hubs approved. I approved. It’s one of my favorite recipes. I also added in some mushrooms since I had some extra in the fridge.
THEN! Hubs surprised me. (WIN!)
Crumbs Cupcakes FTW. The boy knows his way to my heart.
Back to goals. If there’s one thing I’ve appreciated about my new job, it’s reevaluating my goals. Seriously though, think about where you want to be in 1, 5, and 10 years. I have to re-do mine, revising them and constantly thinking about them is never a bad thing. There’s debate on whether you should make your goals public – some say you should as people need to know about them to help you achieve them, others say you shouldn’t because there are people out there trying to cut your goals down. For me, I think vocalizing them holds me accountable for them.
What are your goals?? Do you vocalize them or keep them hush-hush??
