Last night I came home from Rowlates around the same time that Matt was finishing his run. Neither of us were in a cooking kind of mood so we played a little game of “What can we scrounge together to make a meal?”. The result: Caesar salad (for the 4th time this week) with salmon (2nd salmon serving of the day) and vaca frita nachos with salsa and avocado.
Publix salsa with edamame is the best!
Random but satisfying. However, I do not want to eat Caesar salad for a month.
The rest of the evening was spent editing down a 2000 word essay to 400 words. Oops. Next time I will read the instructions little more clearly. After tossing 4/5 of my hard work to the curb, I did a little iTunes shopping with my gift card.
M&Ms from the final bag of Christmas candy 
My Rowlates/spin instructor has been blasting Robyn so I decided to add Call Your Girlfriend to my running playlist (which currently consists of Sweet Nothing by Calvin Harris on repeat). Robyn and I go way back to her Show Me Love single days. I am pretty sure there is a video out there of me and my friends doing a choreographed dance to Show Me Love as it blasts out of a boom box, too…most likely followed by a Spice Girls encore of Wannabe. Eek. I could not think of another song that I wanted to buy. When I am away from iTunes I can think of millions of songs I must buy, but when I am sitting there with my gift card ready, I go blank. At this rate I am going, this $25 gift card is going to last me 2 years.
After some laundry (story of my life), I crawled into bed to watch Modern Family. I was asleep about 10 minutes after it ended. Asleep before 10?! Yes please!
This morning I could barley roll over to turn off the alarm. Not because I was tired but because every muscle below my armpit is sore. I guess that’s what I get from running, PiYo and Rowlates jammed into 24 hours. Damn you bowler lunges!
This morning while packing my lunch I decided I really wanted a baked potato. I had never made a baked potato in the microwave but figured I’d give it a go now that our office microwave is back in action. So lunchtime came around and I jabbed it with a fork a few times and plopped it in the microwave for 6 minutes, flipped it, 6 more minutes, cut it open, spread a Laughing Cow wedge and Colby jack, 45 more seconds, done. This would have gone a lot better if we had more than one microwave for the office so that I didn’t have to let people use the microwave in between each step. Grr. Oh well, I ended up with a feast:
Largest potato I have ever seen!
…and only ate the potato. I guess my eyes were bigger than my stomach like always this morning.
Baked potato: yay or nay? toppings?
Usually I am all about sour cream and cheese but the Laughing Cow wedge was a nice substitution!
Last song you downloaded?
What were you listening to in 1997?
Third Eye Blind, Jewel and Alanis were on repeat on my boom box.
Stephanie Gray Edgerton
/ January 24, 2013I am having the same problem with the gift card to Itunes for Christmas!
Baked Potato – Butter and Sour Cream or Ranch. I’d try laughing cow, though.
1997 – The year I got married! My wedding song: “When You Say Nothing at All” by Allison Krauss!
(www.nowirun.com)
Runner Girl Eats
/ January 24, 2013Aw I love that song!
eharris29
/ January 24, 2013Yup, I’m a potato lover… but I’m part Irish so it’s only natural
. Also I never thought of using a laughing cow but it sounds good!
Runner Girl Eats
/ January 24, 2013Ha I’m part Irish too. I def recommend the Laughing Cow. It was pretty good and guilt free!
Rachel
/ January 24, 2013Baked potato with cottage cheese! YUM! That’s my new fave. I tend to make a baked potato my meal, so sometimes I’ll use vegetable protein, sautee some spinach and mushrooms, and put that on top of the potato to make it more of a meal. I’ve used laughing cow cheese before as well. LOVE IT!
In 1997, I’m pretty sure it was Hanson and N Sync. On repeat.
Runner Girl Eats
/ January 24, 2013I love having baked potatoes as meals with some steamed veggies. And I def had some mmmbop on repeat too
nfoste2245
/ January 24, 2013I can’t even remember what I was listening to in 1997. I like baked potatoes. Just butter (or some version of butter) and salt for me!
The Kidless Kronicles
Runner Girl Eats
/ January 25, 2013Sometimes a simple potato hits the spot.
Alex @ Cookie Dough Katzen
/ January 24, 2013Love baked potatoes! It was actually my favorite food growing up. This is embarassing but I used to love topping my potato with this stuff called butter buds. I have no idea what it really is but its like a powdery butter cheesey concoction. Yikes! But now I like cheese, butter, and sour cream on mine. Still not so healthy but at least it’s real food haha
Runner Girl Eats
/ January 25, 2013Haha I’ve never heard of butter buds but sounds interesting lol
Fitcupcaker
/ January 24, 2013I like cheese on mine
Although I was thinkin about making stuffed potatoes this week!
Runner Girl Eats
/ January 25, 2013Yum stuffed potatoes are the best!
Army Amy
/ January 24, 20131997 was a great year for music. Viva Hanson!*
Runner Girl Eats
/ January 25, 2013Ah wasn’t it fantastic?! I def had some Hanson in my music collection.
kelseyruns
/ January 24, 2013“followed by an encore of Spice Girls Wannabe” I love that! I swear my friends and I had countless “choreographed” dances to Spice Girls songs, my personal fave was always Wannabe!
Runner Girl Eats
/ January 25, 2013Haha I had many dance parties with the spice girls!
Anne
/ January 24, 2013My love for potatoes knows no end! If you microwave them, try wrapping them in a damp paper towel to keep the skin from drying out!
My fav topping is bbq sauce, yum!!!
Runner Girl Eats
/ January 25, 2013Thanks for the tip!
Jade
/ January 25, 2013We always microwave our baked potatoes! I like baked sweet potato with peanut butter or with cottage cheese.
Runner Girl Eats
/ January 25, 2013Hm I’ve never tried either of those options but now I just might have to!