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Pizza Pizzazzz

Hi guys! I just got back from my amazing Chicago trip-will blog alllll about it soon! But here's a healthy pizza idea from last weeks dinner:

-Two pita pockets

-Reduced Fat Mozarella

-Marinara Sauce

-Peppers

Along with a quinoa, black bean, celery, roasted pepper and carrot salad. With a dash of lemon juice!

Final product:

Yum! Enjoy!

Catching Up

Some things you've missed:

Rooftops

Secret Woods

Hiding from rain showers

Morning world! I woke up with a lingerging headache in lasts nights clothes. No comment. Ive neglected sleep this weekend completly, and it's now beginning to set in. Yesterday was spent at a Strike class, studying on the porch and seeing friends. Visiting college friends, going on car rides, listening to Kanye West, Mexican restaraunts and skipping rocks-it's been a jam packed weekend. Just the way I like it (:

(before dinner, giving that tude')

Last night the Chicago girlies and our mommas went out for some Mexicana food! Margaritas & fajitas! Yumm! We are getting so excited for our trip. Me and two of my bestfriends are going on a girls trip to-all on our own tomorrow morning. Eeeek! So exciting!
We caught up with eachother and laughed over salsa and steaming plates. Thinking of college and endless nights and just itching to get out of Mason for a few nights.

Today started off with a game of tennis:

with my faves (Bonds & Daddy) and a light run around the neighborhood. I'm starting packing and organizing for my trip today. And working on homework so I wont have to worry about it after Chicago.

Lunch:

Spinach salad tossed in with carrotts, celery, sunflower seeds, black bean & quinoa, red peppers. I added lemon and olive oil & vinegar dressing. On the side I had a cutie and a pita pocket with apple butter. Yum!

I'm spending the day downloading some Mumford & Sons, Red Hot Chili Peppers and other songs for the long ride tmrw. Any suggestions??

Tonight is pita pocket pizza night at the Sones house. After the girls are coming over to pack and get ready for our trip bright and early tomorrow morning! Now I need to do something productive, procrastinating my procastination. Not good!
Take Care!

Free Bird

Today I felt free. I felt young and awake. Alive and ready. I jumped into that familiar jeep with all the summer music on, holding back my breath and wanting to relive the fragments of my summer that I left behind in this car. Thinking of floral swimsuits on school nights, wine coolers and country tailgates. And I pinched myself to force myself back to reality. Where things are new, where we are different people, where we have pasts and futures. And we drove around through our Ohio suburb laughing and letting the wind hit our faces with its fresh and warm wrath of spring air.
I laid back, looked at you and smiled. The scent of fresh air and young hearts in fields of green and flowers.

We sped fast. We jumped fences. We ran on football fields. We stargazed. We climbed rooftops. We laid. We laughed. We lost touch of reality.

And I hoped the night would never end. That this haze would last longer than the moonlight. But moonlight makes things easy, and in the morning life, love and happiness gets complicated.

The Sunshine Market

I've taken this week with a grain of salt. Letting it pull me in and try not to feel the pressure and heat of it all. Look where I've been, where we're going, what you've shown me. What do you do. What is it that something so short-lived and trivial can hold so much power over me? I think I've fallen for those laughs and moments. Those moments of true euphoric bliss and being completly imerged in someone else for once. It's the sunshine. The heats gotten to my head and all logic and reasoning has been brainwashed out of me. In between long car rides, Kings of Leon and silver rings, I've found the carefree heart and an emptiness knowing that it will all be gone. We can't go anywhere from here. We have futures and dreams and distances. But I can always hold onto the little bit of life I had, feeling the spring sun awake and the breeze of the nati' air while I followed the blossoming cherry blossoms with your hand in mine. I'll remeber the time where the apartment grew hot and heavy and filled my lungs with a giddyness and feeling that I've never felt. A power I've never held before.  A desire to feel-for once in my life. And I've succumed to that hole, I let it be filled. As freeing as it is, I'm scared. I'm scared to be full and confident and happy. I'm scared to love, to move on from here, to see where it all goes. I'm scared I'll be something you aren't. I'm scared I'll be something you didn't think I was. Another girl you fell for, she's not me. Shes loud and clumsy and gets lost in her diary and books far too often. She dreams and gets it mixed up with her reality. She cries when no one is watching and doesn't ask for help. She falls apart more than she lets on. She runs around town with no makeup on, letting her curly hair air dry out the window. I'm scared that someone could actually fall for this girl.

<3

St Pattys Day Swag

Happy St Pattys Day (one day late....)! Hope everyones day was green, safe, and full of gold (; I spent the day waking up to a STRIKE class that kicked my booty into shape. I needed it after a fun night of Friday munchies and candy. Then I shopped around with mom and found the perfect prom shoes!

I call them my to die for Greek goddess shoes (;
My dress is from Off Saks 5th, its simple, white and long..I can't wait for prom this year! Now in need of a date (;

Mom & I ran into everyone at Costco and the stores. And it was one of those days where you go out with no makeup on and hair is still wet from the shower-hoping you don't see anyone you know. Of course.

Grabbed a quick bite to eat with old neighbors then headed off into the Clifton scene for some good ol' Irish fun!

After green, sparkley, lime drinks we headed out on our adventure through the campus. Getting lost and being crazy. We headed home to drop off one of my girlfriends. As we were pulling out, we realized the car was making the weirdest thudding noise ever. We got out to find a flat tire. Of course! 2AM stranded on Ohio back roads. We pulled over and got so so sooo lucky. We ended up in the front of some guys house from highschool. And luckily, they were out letting their dogs out. How perfect was that???

So after about a tedious hour of pushing and pulling and muscles, we finally fixed the flat!

Not exactly how I figured I'd be spending my Saturday St Pattys Day night, but at least I learned something right?

I had the best sleep of my life last night! I woke up at 10:30! This is a record for me. I'm always up at the crack of dawn on weekends. Woke up and walked around the park with the cherry blossoms and fresh air, felt amazing. Then came home to this:

Perfect Sunday morning. Rest of the day includes cleaning and getting some things done and maybe going downtown for a mini adventure. Have a peaceful one!

Spring Relizations

Cincinnati Girl at Heart.

I spent Friday afternoon in a silly mind trap of Clifton streets and dirty apartments. Being carefree and young and at a loss of all of the world in my day dream. We swerved and laughed and lost eachother in the sea of the music and sights. Time got away from my head and it felt right and oh so beautiful as the sun hit my back. College streets and sweet temptations of future lights hypnotize me. 

I live for weekends it feels like. Lately, my lack of motivation at the end of senior year has been so bad.  The spring weather coming in makes it hard to escape from this spring fever I've been getting and the eagerness I have to just be done with highschool. Ha. I'm so young.

 

Last night my best girlfriends and I gathered around a zebra print and pink apartment to celebrate Maggie's 18th! It's crazy how much all of us have grown up in the few years we've spent together in this Midwest town. We all have been through so much.
I honestly thought senior year would be the greatest year of my life. Parties and friends and laughs and love all the time. But it really hasn't been all it's cracked up to be. It's been awesome, but my friends have slowly drifted apart this year. I guess we finally realized that nothing lasts forever. That life goes on after Friday nights and football games. We're different people now with lives in the way and stories to tell, but we all love eachother for the people we were when we were together. Those precious moments we shared as young, carefree kids, experiencing mistakes and life. They felt so real, and raw. Those moments that were so vivid and bright. And slowly, you become calloused. Like crazy things happen, and your not as hurt. Your not as broken. You move on.
It's life.
It's growing older.
And we're all realizing it.

Sunny Thunderstorms

This morning it was sunny and humid! I was tired so I decided on a nice little walk around the hood' to wake up. I could seriously get used to this late arrival thing...
Came home to some breakfast and all of a sudden there was thundering and lightning. Poor Bondi, he was following me around all over the house whimpering. Aww...
Workout: 32 mins. elliptical (3 miles), 15 mins. run on treadmill (1.6 mi.), abs & stretching
I dont mind working out inside when it's not busy. I went at a really nice time-1oclock ish and basically no one was there. Jammed to some music and that hour flewwww by.
Lunch:

Looks like the usual but nope thats not turkey or tuna today! We were out of all kinds of lunch meat today so I used this:

Pretty good. Didn't really fill me up so I made a smoothie on the side with some protein powder to balance it out.
Worked on projects and Psych homework all day.
Dinner:

Roasted Sweet Potatos, Tofu in Olive Oil and Salad with carrots, tomatos & garbonzo's
Sweet Potatos:
-brown sugar, olive oil, balsmic vinegar and rosemary

Just plopped it in the oven and studied some psychology and dinner was ready in about 30 minutes!

To end the day, we went to Target for a little retail therapy (; Got some cute sandals, top and plenty of earings.
To treat ourselves, we went to Orange Leaf-a new frozen yogurt place in town. Mmm so good (:

I enjoyed coconut, pineapple & strawberry banana (all low fat). I ate about half and put the rest in the freezer for tomorrow night.

Hoping for a rainstorm/thunderstorm tonight. I love to stay up watching it!

Pasta Salad

Hello world! I started yesterday off with a nice 40 minute run through the sun, refreshed and ready to go go go. Then it was off to school for tests, tutoring and some espanol. I love having school start so late, its such a treat! The weather is sooooo nice. After school I came and walked Bondi around the park then worked on some homework and projects..a relativly laid back day.

Dinner:

Mom and I came up with it...recipe below (:

  Orecchiette Pasta Salad with Garbonzo, Cabbage, Tomato & Parmesean

-olive oil, garbonzo beans, shredded carrots & cabbage and garlic powder

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