Love to love to love ya

I LOVE Valentine's Day!

And when I can sucker my man into celebrating all weekend- it's even better! Tonight he is making me dinner and Saturday he is taking me to dinner. He knows that for me no gifts are necessary- all I want is a good meal.

Seriously though, how cute are we?

Sunday I told him that I would cook a special meal for him.

I only hope it doesn't turn out like last night's disaster. Did you know that a sweet potato takes about 2 hours to bake? I Googled before popping the potatoes in and the first website I came across said to put them in for 45 min.  

7:15   I put them in.  

8:00   They were as hard as rocks

8:30   I was too hungry to care and ate crappy hard ass potatoes.

No worries though- I'm sure the Love of the holidays will fall upon me, blessing me with the Betty Crocker touch.

I'll leave you with my Valentine's Day get-your-lovin'-on playlist:

Lost without you- robin thicke

Because of you- Ne-yo

Love Song- 311 (and the cure)

Wicked Game – Chris Isaak

Crush- DMB

No One- Alicia Keys

Anna Begins- Counting Crows

Slow Dance- John Legend

After an Afternoon- Jason Mraz

I Need Love- LL Cool J

She will be Loved- Maroon 5
Blue Eyes -Cary Brothers **From my favorite movie**

Today's Eats

• bfast- 1 egg, ww english muffin, coffee, strawberries
• snack #1- Odwalla Snack bar- I didn't care for this one at all
• Lunch- HUGE bowl  of Caesar salad with croutons and sundried tomatoes

• snack #2- organic applesauce (this stuff is LOADED!)

• Dinner:
• Fruit/Veggies: 4
• Workout:

Chocolate chip crap

I’m baaaack! With Internet service and all! This weekend was my father’s birthday so it included things like- a very large grilled steak, cheese burgers, fries, margaritas, wine, “dirt pie”, and drinking a whole bottle of Firefly Sweet Tea Vodka- oh and moonshine- that’s right folks- that’s how we do it in the south.

My mother gave me a copy of one of her vegetarian magazines- full of awesome recipes that I can’t wait to try. I attempted one last night- a “healthy” chocolate chip cookie. What a bunch of crap that thing turned out to be.

Ingredients:

• Milk
• Canola oil
• Brown sugar
• Wheat flour
• Chocolate chips
• 1 egg

The picture would lead me to believe the cookies will look like this:

In actuality they look like this:

And they taste NOTHING like the warm, gooey, loadedwithdelicious Nestle Tollhouse cookies- more like wheat bread with some chocolate in it. Don’t get me wrong- I still ate them. But still. What a let down.

Today's Eats:

• bfast- 2 egg whites, ww arnold thins, 1/2 slice cheese
• Green Monster: 1 banana, spinach, almond milk, strawberries, flax seed
• snack #1- greek yogurt with Kashi granola
• Lunch- Turkey sandwhich with mayo, tom, lettuce and 1/2 bag BBQ baked chips
• snack #2- carrots and hummus
• Dinner- Tomato soup with 1 slice cheese 
• spinach salad with balsamic, pine nuts, and craisins
• Fruit/Veggie count- 6

** I'm reading the Vegetarian magazine and say to my boyfriend "I really want to be a vegetarian." Boyfriend is visibly upset and says "please no. I don't want us to never have meat for dinner- that is just too hard."

I guess I shouldn't tell him that we haven't bought or cooked meat for about 3 weeks now. (not counting fish)