quesadillas!

Today consisted of school and working out at the awesome school gym. I also purchased a pumpkin spiced coffee from starbucks for the second time this week. argh, and I need to remember to write that down in my financial journal. yikes.

*My mom actually treated me to the Pumpkin Spice after picking her up at the airport, but I am choosing to put that down as my own purchase on the journal, because I would've still bought it whether or not she did pay for it


On Saturday:

You know dinner was a success 100% when your stomach doesn't kill you. I've noticed gradually that my tolerance to lactose has been dipping low. Now I can't have a sprinkle of cheese without feeling like my gut is eating itself.

When I took Tums before my consumption of cheese, I hoped and pleaded it'd work.
Ashley made dinner.

It's fun to watch Ashley cook because for the longest time I've known her, I've never seen her cook. I've only seen her pop an occasional chicken bake in the mircowave here and there. ha 

This is one of the nicer dogs that stops barking at me after two minutes. I think I got comfortable saying "Shut up!" the 362178 times I've stepped foot in the house. In fact, I think that is the first thing that comes out of my mouth.

Shrimp with butter.

Beautiful hands.

Big chunk of cheese.

She has skills.

This picture is too nice to paste over a pineapple head and hamburger belly, upon her request. I'm not that mean. She told me to do this a few days ago, and I remembered. See? I am a good listener Ashley *see the above if you missed that one.

Happy in anticipation

With Tums on the side, how nice. My stomach didn't kill me, yes!

We ended the night watching Dinner with Shmucks. It was a funny and heart felt movie, I loved it. Paul Rudd is such a charming guy.

Then we saw The Last Exorcism

During the movie I was really scared (covered my eyes and got really jumpy). I hate scary/grotesque movies that could have the potiential to happen in real life. ie) ghost stories, Saw, The Centipede.

I also hate it because I feel like I miss out of the movie from covering my eyes too much.

I believe there are demons, but maybe someones head can't rotate at 360 degrees in real life? right? ha. So I was relieved with the fact I wasn't watching a movie "based on true events". The ending was really weird and humorous. That's all I can say.

Fact: I haven't fully seen The Exorcist. It gives me the creeps, and I convinced myself that the movie did really happen in real life!

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$tar"bucks"

Tonight after work, I attended a six week course on how to handle your finances based on the Bible and God's principle. Over the past summer, it's no lie that money has cause stress in me. I worked more hours, but where was my money going? I spent more than my means, I didn't care, taking out $40 out of the ATM every other day made it seem like I was financially responsible (was I?), ...oh by the way, where was my money going???

I thought it was time that I take initative to start being responsible when I heard my church was offering financial classes. The thing I needed was a foundation. So after tonight, I thought it was very insightful and I hope I can share the things I learn along the way. I want to be financially free mentally, don't you?

I then come home to an email and find this:

The Pumpkin Spiced flavor is back at Starbucks. Let me tell you that I was addicted. Not even a month ago, I was excited for its comeback. But alas, I am trying to make a habit of tracking my spending (homework for a week). We'll see how this goes, but of course I want to buy one (preferably a venti), okay?

The important thing is learning how to say "no"...."no" pumpkin spice! <---that was hard

Dates. The first time I had one of these was last week, but they were too sweet for me that it took me a while to eat one. AND one was enough.

 Let's rewind back to Thursday, where I tried them with peanut butter. OMG they are so addicting, like seriously. The peanut butter really balanced out the sweetness. I was addicted eating these at work...8-10 dates and 4 tablespoons of nut buttah.

My indulgences also got balanced out with left-overs.

Hand shredded romaine lettuce with green bell peppers, red onions, grape tomatoes, radishes, beets, summer squash, and bulgarian feta. Along with a side of baked potato fries and chicken.

What spending habits do you need to get rid of?

- I use my plastic on auto-pilot when it comes to purchases on little things, but those little things add up! Eating out is mainly the issue here.

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School makes me eat out more, boo.

The hump is almost over, thank goodness. Since school started Monday, I've been itching for the weekend to come sooner, but then I remember I work on the weekends!

The good news is that my school schedule isn't as crazy as last semester where I had to stay at school for ten hours. I now get off at a reasonable time and my professors seem really nice.

The bad news is that I have been eating out more. Not good for the wallet, I think I could've bought a cute dress. sigh. I digress. No more eating out Angela, seriously!

So tonight, I prepped veggies and baked chicken to bring to school.

I love summer squash, it's so crispy and mild. I just love how it isn't waterly like cucumbers, which is probably why I prefer squash more.

Tonight, I prepped the following:

- Summer squash

- Green Bell Peppers

- Radishes

- Beets (mirowaved for 7 minutes and peeled after cd)

- Red Onions

- Romaine Lettuce (used a salad spinner for the first time!)

- Green onions

In the Oven:

- Chicken Breasts (marinated in evoo, salt, pepper, oyster sauce, fish sauce) baked at 450, then 350

- Pressed Tofu (in salt, pepper, evoo, and fish sauce)

- Gold potatoes cut like fries baked at 450 (evoo, salt, pepper, garlic, fish sauce)

I have been adding fish sauce to everything like crazy, I just think it makes the dishes taste good!

With all the prepping, everything came together. I have come to conclusion that I like my okra raw. I love the crunchy texture and the inside tastes so gooey and slimy due to the seeds.

This morning I had a weight training class. The great thing about having a weight training class at school is that I am forced to exercise...but happily and willingly. In the end I felt like a million bucks sweating in the wee hours.

On the stovetop I combined:

- 1/3 cups of steel oats

- 1 cup of water

- Half a banana

- Cinnamon

- Chia Seeds

Topped with: Greek yogurt and Justin's Chocolate Hazelnut butter

*update on the toe :o) : Some of you were brave to scroll on and check out the gnarly picture of my gruesome experience. Big daddy toe is doing just fine, today is the first day I took antibiotics that I was prescribed. I felt a tingle of pain so I went to CVS to fill my prescription. Gotta be cautious.

Any gruesome accidents that has happened to you?

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