It is 40ish, raining, and windy.  Isn’t this supposed to be Houston?  I am counting on mid to upper 60s with sun today!  Today is supposed to be my 2 hour run for the week (since I slept through it yesterday!) but if this rain doesn’t let up I am going to have to move it until tomorrow!  I really dislike moving my runs about, it makes me feel like I am avoiding or failing.

After my very brisk walk home from school (my hands were frozen!) I made a GIANT bowl of pumpkin oats.

No, your eyes are not deceiving you.  My bowls of oats keeping getting bigger.  This one is at the brim of my bowl.

1/4 cup oat bran

1/4 cup oats

1 cup water

1/2 cup pumpkin

cereal and almond butter on top (Special K does make a great oats topper!)

This was sooo much food!  I probably should have divided it into two servings, but it was too yummy!  I have just recently started adding the oat bran and it just really produces a large volume of food!

This giant bowl of oats warmed me up.  On the game plan for the rest of the day:

• Homework, briefing
• Need to run (want 2 hours, with rain I will do speed intervals at gym)
• Homework
• Dinner time with my two boys.

Does getting off your workout schedule bug the heck out of anyone else?

My weekend went by so fast.  Some of that could be because I took 2 naps Sunday!  Yes, 2 very long naps.  I guess not sleeping all week finally caught up to me!

Sunday lunch was brunch of course.

I had picked up these goodies at Central Market on Saturday so I knew exactly what I wanted for lunch.

I made the BIGGEST bowl of oats ever.  Seriously.  It barely fit in my bowl.  I really wasn’t actually hungry the rest of the day!  But alas, it was the weekend and I tend to snack way too much!  I had a few servings of pretzels nibblers throughout the afternoon.

**Official Race Results posted:  I ran in 24:13 placing 13th in my age division.  The hubby almost killed himself, but finished in 22:20 and placed 17th in his age division.  I then proceeded to give him a lecture about pushing himself to hard and the risk of injuries, blah, blah, blah.***  We were both happy with our times especially since it was freezing out!

We headed to the Rockets game with our race tickets.

The wonderful self picture, haha!

The snack I smuggled inside in my purse.

Honestly, the game was awful.  The rockets were behind by a lot.

During a timeout they raced babies.  No joke.  Thoughts running through my head at this time:  Is this legal?  Is this a Texas thing?  OMG, I can’t believe they are really racing babies right in the middle of an NBA game!

Ah, Texas.  Always full of surprises.

As I mentioned, the game was awful.  We left at half time and went home to watch the ProBowl.  Chilly night here in Houston!

Monday:

Ugh, I can’t believe it is Monday again.  Although I usually wake up starving for breakfast, I woke up stuffed feeling this morning.  I think that is a sign I need to stop indulging all weekend.  Anyway, I know I needed breakfast so I had a bowl of cereal with banana and blackberries.

Somehow we ended up with a 3 box variety of Kellog’s Special K.  This is the fruit and yogurt.  I commend that the cereal are low in calories, but there is little protein or fiber.  Oh well.  Maybe I will give these to the hubby.