Warning: don’t read if you’re hungry because there is so much good food coming at you. This recent eats round up is all about DINNER! I have a selection of delicious dinners to share – some that I cooked in my own kitchen, some enjoyed out at restaurants and some cooked by my dad when [...]
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Weekend: Family, Food and Baby Shower
March 26, 2018 { 12 comments }Hi and happy new week. I hope it’s off to a good start. Having my mom, aunt and cousin here over the weekend for my baby shower made for a very special time. There was minimal working and lots of fun and hanging out. FRIDAY I subbed out my Friday classes so that I could [...]
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Weekend: Cirque de la Symphonie + Cake Baking + Surprise Long Run
October 16, 2017 { 2 comments }Hi and I hope your week is off to a great start. I never get to sit down to write a weekend recap on Mondays until mid-afternoon because I teach at 8:15a and 10:30a on Mondays and squeeze in a yoga class or run between teaching my two classes. I always feel behind the curve [...]
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Weekend: So Much Good Food + My First Harry Potter!
October 9, 2017 { 7 comments }While my weekend certainly wasn’t exciting, it was full of good foods, lots of puppy time and relaxation so I can’t complain one bit. FRIDAY We stayed in on Friday night and Tanner had this cuddle party with all the pups as soon as he got home. We kept Bear Bundon for the weekend so [...]
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Processing + A Fall Weekend
October 2, 2017 { 4 comments }I honestly have no words to express my heartbreak over the mass shooting in Las Vegas. The last thing I looked at on my phone last night before turning to my book was CNN.com to scan the headlines. I was shocked and sick to my stomach to wake up and learn about what happened as [...]
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Harvey Help + Weekend Things
August 28, 2017 { 4 comments }Hi on a Monday. I can’t stop thinking about everyone in the Houston area and what they are going through. My parents lived in Houston for a few years when I was in my early-mid 20s and it was always a city that I enjoyed visiting…and where I learned what real Mexican food should taste [...]
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Weekend: Bye to Bear, Stagioni Date Night, Sunday Stuff
August 7, 2017 { 10 comments }It was a great weekend over here. While we were dealing with some business stuff behind the scenes, we made time for plenty of fun, family, friends and food. Since we didn’t have teacher training this weekend, it felt extra long and nice. FRIDAY We said goodbye to Bear Bundon on Friday night. I know [...]
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Weekend: Home Shopping + Christmas Tree Debacles
November 28, 2016 { 12 comments }Hey there. I’m jumping back into my normal groove today after a nice long weekend. Here’s a quick recap of it! Friday We got home around 1:30 on Friday afternoon. We spent some time cleaning the house and then I headed out for a long walk with the girls. We walked for about an hour [...]
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Recent Eats: The best Mediterranean food + I need a cashew butter intervention
July 6, 2016 { 13 comments }Don’t forget to enter the LG SideKick giveaway. It ends Thursday at 11:59 p.m. EST! Happy Wednesday. This short week has been really nice. I am in the process of cutting back on the personal training hours I do and creating more space for uninterrupted blocks of writing, working and down time. So far it [...]
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End of the Year Catch Up
December 31, 2015 { 10 comments }It’s the last day of 2015 and I have a lot to catch you up on before we move to a new year! I’m thinking we’re going to have to start riding around in boats instead of cars over here. The rain has been crazy! My thoughts are with all of those who are experiencing [...]
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Weekend: So Much Yoga + The Girls + The Food
February 9, 2015 { 38 comments }I had a great weekend! It was a nice balance of work, fun and relaxation. And there was this… I almost feel guilty posting this because I know so many of you are digging out of snow but it was insanely gorgeous in Charlotte this weekend. 65 and sunny on Saturday and 70 and sunny [...]
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The Mayobird: The Best New Lunch and Hangout Spot in Charlotte!
February 3, 2015 { 13 comments }I had a lunch meeting today at The Mayobird here in Charlotte and it’s now my new favorite lunch and meeting spot. Whether you live in Charlotte or not, you will love the concept of this restaurant! It’s based on chicken salad! They offer 17 different varieties of chicken salad and you choose whether you [...]
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The MOST Delicious Week of Eats!
October 17, 2014 { 18 comments }I think this might be the best week of eats that I’ve had to share with you in a really long time. Some great meals here in Charlotte coupled with being in my dad’s kitchen has been a pretty awesome combo. Let’s dive right in. Warning, you will be hungry after reading this post! Breakfast [...]
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Updates + Summer Loving Eats
August 18, 2014 { 20 comments }Happy Monday! I started my week off with 5:30 and 6:30 a.m. clients before coming home to this cutie. Sullie has a case of the Mondays and is being a little lazy but I am ready go GO! That my be in part thanks to the fact that I’m working on my second grande dark [...]
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More Rest & More Food Please
February 7, 2013 { 19 comments }Hello and happy Thursday! It’s been a while since I’ve shared any Sullie shots on the blog and she’s been extra cute as always so here are two pictures I posted to Facebook and Instagram today. I have been obsessed with Instagram lately. I am also pretty obsessed with Sullie’s frog legs. The girl has [...]
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A Festive Weekend
December 11, 2011 { 25 comments }Happy Sunday! I hope the weekend has been great for you. I think the theme of my weekend is taking pictures in front of Christmas trees. Such a festive time of year. :P I’ll divide this post into “what I did” and “what I ate.” Weekend Activities (a.k.a. how many pictures can i take in [...]
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Thursday Fun Day with Food and The Civil Wars
December 8, 2011 { 12 comments }Today has been a good day. Started with an early morning ashtanga practice followed by a peanut butter and jelly smoothie and a yoga private with my amazing client who touched his toes with straight legs this week for the first time since his teenage years. Happy heart. Peanut butter and jelly smoothie = peanut [...]
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Customshop Celebration
August 20, 2011 { 12 comments }Happy weekend! I am breathing a big sigh of relief about being done with the week and trying to relax in between teaching a gazillion yoga classes. (No really, I’m teaching six classes in three days. And I love it.) I’m here to share with you a very fun celebration dinner that we had on [...]
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Manual Labor
May 22, 2011 { 29 comments }Tomorrow I may not be able to move. “Project Yard Overhaul” started today and included six hours of raking, bagging, ivy ripping, shrubbery cutting and more. Our back yard is really wooded and is kind of out of control. It’s been a mess since we bought our house a year ago and we’re determined to [...]
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I’m actually becoming a yoga teacher!
March 20, 2011 { 28 comments }It’s been a long, exhausting and amazing weekend. I just wrapped up weekend seven of eight of yoga teacher training and can’t believe that we only meet one more time. The past three months have been so focused on teacher training (thank you for hanging in there with me for it!) and the end seemed [...]
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Rainy Day Fun
March 9, 2011 { 31 comments }Today has been a great day! It’s been really rainy and gloomy here (like, we were under a flood watch rainy) but I’m still full of smiles and energy. :D No AM workout today. Oatmeal at my desk. Oats, blueberries, banana, dried cranberry, cinnamon, pinch salt, almond milk, water, chia seeds. Topped with almond butter [...]
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Lately
December 19, 2010 { 6 comments }Thank you for your kind words, encouragement and support on my Decisions post. I am very lucky to have such insightful and thoughtful readers. That said, I am not considering having a baby (at least right now, sorry Mom!) or leaving my job. I apologize if I freaked some people out. A full explanation is [...]
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George’s Brasserie and a Snow Day
December 5, 2010 { 7 comments }It’s been such a fun weekend – dinner with friends, a nice long run, a great ashtanga practice, dinner with my in law’s at one of our favorite Charlotte restaurants and a day trip to the mountains with lots of snow! Catch up on part one of the weekend with this post and here we [...]
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A Cold 10 Miles
December 4, 2010 { 6 comments }I think it was a pretty even split between the white v. colored Christmas lights debate. We’ve compromised here and have colored on the tree in the house and are doing white outside. I’ve been busy, busy the last couple days. Friday morning started with an early hot vinyasa yoga class before work. I had [...]
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Yoga, The Cowfish and a Long Run
November 21, 2010 { 14 comments }It’s Sunday evening but I’m not having the typical, “How can the weekend be over so soon?” feelings. I’m looking forward to the short work week and a four-day weekend including Thanksgiving! I hope that you all have Friday off of work too! Lots of happenings since I posted yesterday. I spent Saturday afternoon at [...]
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Mile High Peanut Butter Pie
November 20, 2010 { 16 comments }Happy weekend! Last night Brandon and I decided to finally use a Groupon we’ve been holding onto for a while and try Savor. I was looking forward to finally experiencing Savor after reading good reviews and constantly hearing the Twitter-verse talking about how good their food is. I knew it was going to be good [...]
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PBR is Back!
October 26, 2010 { 8 comments }Not the beer, the blog! Some of you probably noticed that my blog was down Monday. I was in the process of moving it over to self-hosting. I apologize that I didn’t give you all more warning but I wasn’t sure when the switch was going to happen. I have been wanting to transition to [...]
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Weekend Highlights
October 24, 2010 { 3 comments }FRIDAY Post-work run with Sarah. We covered an easy four miles and my legs felt the best they have in weeks. Taper is working! Dinner at George’s with Brandon. Carafe of wine. Cheap endless happy hour appetizers…we created a tapas spread for dinner (heavy on the seafood). Tuna bites. Calamari. French country pizza. White wine [...]
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Saturday Perfection
October 9, 2010 { 11 comments }Today was a perfect Saturday – it involved teaching a group ex class, a great yoga practice, books, coffee, a good friend, cooking, baking, wine and awesome weather. What more could I possibly ask for? I am a lucky girl. My day started with a 6:30 a.m. wake up call. My class at the Y [...]
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Slowly Recovering (with the help of good food!)
October 4, 2010 { 4 comments }I’m slowly recovering from yesterday’s 20-miler. The first step was ice bath, hot shower and food. The second step involved me sitting on the couch from 2:30-7:30 p.m. without moving. I blogged, watched Grey’s Anatomy and ate peanut butter chocolate chip bars. It was glorious. Around 6:30 my legs said, “beer me.” I had a [...]
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A Fun Morning at Metro Fitness + Zoe's Kitchen
October 2, 2010 { 4 comments }*Become a fan of Peanut Butter Runner on Facebook! I just set up a fan page and would love to connect with all of my readers on Facebook! Happy Saturday! I started mine with a 6:30 a.m. wake up call. I had plans to check out an 8 a.m. class at the Y and then [...]
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Third Time's a Charm
September 30, 2010 { 19 comments }First, I really appreciate all of the comments/support about my decision to run the Marine Corps Marathon. Tomorrow is the first day of October so the countdown is officially on! Race day is October 31. Eek! :shock: After Tuesday’s 10-miler I forced myself to take Wednesday as a rest day. I was very tempted to [...]
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Rooster's Highland Brewery Dinner
September 29, 2010 { 5 comments }Last week I saw on Twitter that Rooster’s was hosting a Highland Brewery Beer Dinner. Brandon and I are big fans of both Rooster’s and Highland Brewery so I immediately called and made reservations. Brandon was thrilled when I sent a link to the menu and told him we were going. I’m pretty sure I [...]
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Everything Has Changed, Absolutely Nothing's Changed
September 18, 2010 { 14 comments }The words of the brilliant Eddie Vedder sum up my situation perfectly. “Everything has changed, absolutely nothing’s changed.” This song popped up on my playlist today while I was walking with Sullie and this line really resonated with me. Yes, I was walking Sullie and I have no long run to update you guys on [...]
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Tempo Run + Hot Yoga = Sweaty
August 12, 2010 { 7 comments }Good morning! I usually post my updates in the evenings but last night I worked on Bakin’ and Eggs and then crashed. Before turning in I made the decision to skip ashtanga this morning so I thought I’d get up early and work on this blog instead! My lower back is still feeling a little [...]
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Blogger Yoga and Dinner (and the importance of meal planning!)
August 4, 2010 { 4 comments }Last night’s dinner was proof that if you meal plan and have ingredients on hand you are much more likely to eat at home and make smart food choices (check out my “How to Menu Plan” post). I didn’t get home from yoga until 8:45 and some friend’s stopped by for a beer on their [...]
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A quiet weekend and our first IKEA trip
August 1, 2010 { 5 comments }Catching up on the weekend? Check out part one (including my long run) here. After Saturday’s long run, errands and updating the blog, I had a really hard time peeling myself off the couch. The one thing that I was motivated to move for was lunch (and the possibility of a bloody mary!). Brandon and [...]
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Workout Buddies
July 31, 2010 { 8 comments }Happy weekend! I’m enjoying our last weekend at home before we embark on four weekends straight of traveling in August. Eek! Luckily, they’re all fun travel plans (including two beach trips – score!). Sometimes workouts are more fun with friends and I’ve been lucky to have some pretty awesome workout buddies this week. First, I [...]