Follow my Footsteps

Happy Tuesday everyone!


I am a bad blogger and have about a zillion posts to catch up and comment on, So if i haven't commented on your blog in a couple of days, I still love you AND your fabulous blog


Yesterday I woke up after an excellent dream that consisted of me running barefoot in some kind of crazy marathon and the first thing i thought about was... 

Today... I RUN


Pretty brazen huh?


Very decisive as well


I'm decisive in a lot of places in my life


Like how the brick i like is WAY better then the brick BF likes for the new house


However...


*Deep sigh here*


I am not that decisive when it comes to restaurant menus


That was the understatement of the year


I always ask to order last


And i inevitably want what someone else gets


But this morning


This morning I was decisive


And i went for a run


I'm hoping you will Travel with me Tuesday with me on my run


Get it?  


This is me trying to get out of not having more Aruba pictures edited so this is how i'm filling in my Tuesday Travel post


I'm sneaky like that


Sneaky AND Indecisive at restaurants if you are keeping track


And if you have followed the blog long enough you know i have a small head as well


Now we are all caught up, lets get started!

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The running adventures of Donna & Sydney

Fun shadow shot at the start of the run

Tight leash = squirrel spotting, one of these days she will pull my arm out of the socket, if she ever ACTUALLY caught a squirrel i guarantee you she would ask it for a tummy rub

Why does this path seem never ending? Ohhh anyone like that movie Never Ending Story?  I did not like it, that dog dragon thing scared the bejesus out of me!

Lets have some fun, this was right before a bicyclist rode past me and i dropped the phone in fright


If you want the best case every BUY this, i drop my phone at LEAST once a day!

YAY park, almost home!

This is the doodles "you are the worst mum ever for making me run THAT far mummy" pose

I love love love when she sits like this, she looks like a little person

Close up: this is her i just rolled in grass but i still look cute face

Stretch, admire cute lululemon pants

Officially thank your running partner

Hydrate on the deck while worshipping the sun, where have you been all spring mr. sun?

Realize you should have hydrated WAY more and decide this $5 cup of caffeine is the only way to feel better , sometimes you have to take one for the team, errr thats my excuse, i just really love skinny caramel machiattos :o)

Reward yourself with Winners goodies, its TOTALLY necessary in the post run  recovery!

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So since BF decided he wanted more Vegan food (yay progress) i decided to make a recipe that has been all over the blog world lately
This is my spin

Cheezy Creamy Vegan Sauce

Adapted from Peas and Thank You

Ingredients
1/4 cup of Cashews
1/3 cup of Water
1 Tbsp of Apple Cider Vinegar
1 tsp of Garlic
1/2 tsp of Salt
1/4 cup of Canola Oil
Juice of One Lemon
2 tsp curry paste
1/4 cup of Nutritional Yeast








Directions
1. Blend, this is like a smoothie recipe huh? Blend blend blend and anticipate the amazingness that is this sauce!

I get lazy and sometimes i do this, shhhhh don't tell BF!

Pre-sauce, this is brown rice, steamed veggies and extra firm tofu brushed with curry paste and broiled

Action shot ala Katie of Real Food Katies Way 

Oh so freaking yummy

This is me stepping back and admiring - right before i INHALED it! Sooooo yummy, even got the BF's stamp of approval as well
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Thanks for running with me today and sticking around for this kick arse recipe
Have you tried yumm sauce yet?


Seeya tomorrow, i will catch up with you all in the am xox

Weekend Report Card

So i'm playing teacher* today and grading how the weekend went, its like a blog report card! Excited? I sure am as it consists of me revealing stupid embarassing moments but we all know this is nothing new to LRT :o)

So lets talk about my Friday AM

I was running around the house and realized instead of leaving early because i had to make a pit stop at Starbucks to pick up a gift card for my boss i was still running around the house trying to find my keys, so i fibbed and i texted my friend Karen (who i was picking starbucks up for as well) and told her i was stuck in line, then no less then 5 minutes of frantic searching later i realized BF had taken BOTH sets of keys to work so I had to call Karen and confess, no i wasn't at Starbucks i was running around my house searching for my keys, so after Karen stopped laughing, Amber volunteered to pick me up but instead of waiting at the house like a sane person I ran in my work clothes (and the rain i might add) to Starbucks and picked up the gift card and extra special love filled smoothies for Karen and Amber who saved my morning - thanks girls, you can stop laughing now

Grade:
F for telling a little white lie
A for amusement factor for my coworkers, i will apparently live this down when i am "dead" that quote came directly from Karen, hahahaaaaaa


FRIDAY: Rest of friday i visited with some girlfriends and came home to a hilariously disoriented BF, he was very excited to have some "alone man time" in the house at night after spending a week packed into a cabin with a bunch of guy coworkers, i think he managed a walk with the doodle and a video game before he passed out on the tv room floor till i got home!

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Best way to spend breakfast, sitting in sun beams with tea and a good book!

Saturday BF I were supposed to go by and help my sister and her husband build a fence, when we got there they had a ton of helpers so we left to run errands instead

Found this running errands, i would VERY much like it for my birthday please!

Grade: 

D for eating their pizza even if we didn't help, we did  however manage to look pretty standing around though in our lululemon outfits, teeeheheheee
B for redemption when i went back Sunday and lugged an insane amount of fence boards so i could feel like i contributed in some way!


We also decided to take the fur baby for a walk Saturday night to the new house and on the way home we passed a path that had some man made ponds so we decided to let fur baby check it out as its closer then our current park and the first thing she did was run for the water and take a little swim, of course it was more like mud then water 

Save me mum!!!

Was that really necessary?

Post bath freak out

And exhausted!

Grade: 
A for pretty much everything, seeing how the house is coming along and watching Sydney have a blast in the water made me laugh SO hard, and watching BF take the time to give her a bath and talk her through it was the sweetest thing ever!

We have a lake, aren't we fancy? 

Fun with focus points

Pre swim checking out the foundation!

SATURDAY: was an awesome day, we got to sleep in and go for a bunch of long walks, we hit up the farmers market to buy steak and veggies to have a BBQ for dinner, we got errands done including some packing, woot woot!

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So on Sunday we celebrated our Mothers Day!
Grade:

A+ for our amazing mums who are just SO awesome and we are sooo grateful to have them in our lives and they should truly be celebrated every day not just once a year!

So lucky to be her MUM :o)

SUNDAY: we did some yardwork, including mowing half the lawn because our mower ran out of battery life, i'm hoping to start a trend and pretend we actually want it to look like that!  After helping out with Katies fence, she and i took our mums and mum in laws to the movie to see Something Borrowed!


LRT Movie Review
Something Borrowed


I really really liked the movie but probably because i read the book and i know the book Something Blue which is the sequel is soooo good!  I have to say Kate Hudson looks a lot older in this movie then she usually does, and i loved John Krasinki as the friend of Ginnifer Goodwins character!  There were definitely some laughs and  it wasn't just because my sister slept through half of it, fence building is hard work!

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Okay, so i made a couple of disastrous recipes this weekend, my coconut macaroons turned into coconut pancakes (booooooooooo) and my brownies came out a little raw and had to be microwaved, oh the shame!  But seriously it was a British recipe and who has 25 cm pans?

One thing that did work out was my mum and dads recipe for Fresh Lemonade, they drank a ton of it when they were back in England and came home determined to make their own and my mum shared the recipe with me

L Family Lemonade 

Ingredients
4 Lemons
1/2 cup of organic sugar
4 cups of water


Directions
1. Juice lemons and try not to cry out in pain as the juice finds that paper cut you got at work this week, eeeeeee
2. Mix 1/2 cup of water with Sugar in a saucepan over medium heat till sugar melts into the water and makes a syrup
3. Add lemon juice and the rest of the water and put in cute glass jug and refrigerate till cool!

You could serve this over ice or you could add the limoncello you picked up in Italy and some ice and make a crazy good punch drink to have with your BBQ!

Hope everyone had a great weekend, the sun shone the whole time and its amazing what it can do for your mood!  I have today off so i'm heading on a long run then groceries and maybe if the mood strikes me, more packing!

Happy Monday lovelies xox

*BF i totally see your mind going to the dirty place as soon as i said play teacher, please meet me after "school" to discuss this ;o)

Twitter Trauma

So its Fashion Friday here at LRT and i'm talking about something that is VERY fashionable, something called social media

I'll own up to LOVING Facebook, i was a late joiner, my best friend encouraged me to sign up after i became single again back in 2009 to catch up with old friends, i didn't look back and have wasted many hours getting sucked into the vortex that is status updates and album pictures

I am a big fan of the BLOGGING world, i've "met" so many amazing people who inspire me every day, i see no disadvantage to blogging other then my constant drafting of blogs in my head and the early wake up hours to take photos of food in the "good light"

Now lets talk about Twitter, i am flumoxed, stumped and totally out of my element

About a month ago i set up a LoveRunTravel twitter account and i seriously feel like a little kid in a room full of ivy league university grads -  i mean hashtags? No offense but that sounds like a drug you smoke!  There is something called #fitblog that always seems to happen when i get home from work Tuesdays that i feel like happens really fast and i'm unfit for not being able to follow along

So i've decided to do some research and i'm sharing what i learn here with you? Ready? I'm about to google things like "twitter for idiots, twitter for the twitterly challenged", "how not to be twit when it comes to twitter"


Okay i'm back that SO didn't work out, i'm even more confused and there is A LOT to read and no short version i could share here - so lets have fun and look at comics instead

Sorry friends, i'll do more research and get back to you with more info, hopefully they gave you a giggle at least!

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Now I haven't included a work outfit and workout outfit for a while so here is the quickie version

Tank:  My new Cool Racerback in black citron tinted canvas super from LuLuLemon
Please note this is post Zumba and i'm a disaster, i couldn't even manage to fully take my jacket off :oÞ Do you like my hair swoop? I have been doing that for class lately since i sweat my tushie off in Zumba and i hate having wet stringy bangs, this is the perfect solution even if it does emphasize my massive forhead that totally conflicts with my teeny tiny head

Socks - these are also new from LuluLemon, they are called the No Show Sock!
LOVE these, they really don't show under my asics and they have extra padded support at pressure areas! I mostly use them for running but i'll occasionally use them for Zumba since we bounce and jump around a lot in that class*

* there have been a lot of guys going lately to zumba, first off i think they are UBER brave and secondly think about it, we wiggle and gyrate and shake our boobies non stop in that class, those guys are lovin every second and are smarter then we give them credit for!

Funky work outfit shot
Blouse: H & M

Cardigan: J Crew

Necklace: Forever 21

Skirt: H&M

Shoes: Nine West

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Recipe time!!! I was talking about breakfast cookies with work friend Sara the other day and since then i've been coming up with new versions to share since i do heart my breakfast cookies so, this is what i came up with at 6am this morning!

Chocolate Blueberry Breakfast Cookie

Pre microwave!

IngredientsHalf a mashed banana
1/8 cup of egg whites
1 splenda (or tsp of vanilla)
1 Tbsp of blueberries
1 Tbsp of dark chocolate chips
1/4 cup heaped of Oatmeal
1/4 tsp of baking powder

Directions

1. Mix wet ingredients

2. Add dry ingredients

3. Stir it all up, drool in anticipation

4. Pop in microwave for 1 minute 45 seconds

5. Turn upside down and let cookie "plop" onto plate

6. I topped with blueberries, drizzle of chocolate sauce and agave nectar

7. Bow before me and my breakfast cookies, its THAT good!

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So weekend plans so far...

Friday i'm spending time with some of my favourite girls

Saturday BF and i are having an US day where we only do what we want with only each other

Sunday is mothers day so we have special plans for our mums

What are you up to?

Whatever it might be I hope you have a lovely weekend xox