It is Friday and you know what that means…it is totally acceptable to crack open a Bud Light anytime after noon!  Oh, that isn’t what you were thinking? Oh yeah right….Friday Fun Facts.

Friday Fun Facts

• I just discovered ExerciseTV on demand on my television!  I have now done 5 shows in the last 24 hours.  Most of them are only 10 to 15 minutes long which is perfect for me!  Plus I can do a hip-hop dance class in the privacy of my own living room without everyone knowing that I have zero rhythm.
• It is cold in Houston, for real, 20 degrees. It is super annoying!  I know I shouldn’t complain because I yet to even see a snowflake this winter…but this cold weather makes me want to rent a UHaul, pack up and move somewhere I want to be if I am going to be cold regardless.
• Last night when I was putting away food all the Tupperware fell from the cabinet above and hit me. To continue my wonderful luck I was opening a container of blueberries this morning and piece of plastic broke off and hit me square in the eye. I am creating this post with only one good eye so excuse any typos!
• I really dislike Valentine’s Day. I think it is a sham.  I worked for Hallmark in high school and all I remember was having to work in a store completely filled with heart balloons, pink & red (terrible colors!), flowers, and chocolate everything.  Personally I would rather be loved every day of the year rather than just wasting money and calories on an overpriced meal.
• I have pretty much failed on cleaning up my eating this week.  Of course my husband keeps brining me home leftover cookies & desserts from his work meetings.  How the hell can I say no to the smell of warm chocolate chip cookies? I can’t.  I should probably get my act together if I want to go bikini shopping next month.

I really need to run 4-5 miles today but I really don’t want to dig out all my winter running gear…again.

Leave me a Friday Fun Fact!

Giveaway coming later today!!!!!!

Friday Fun Facts

• Warning:  This fact is not fun!  I received this email from TripAdvisor with a list of the dirtiest hotels in  America!  I wouldn’t look at it while eating if I were you!

• Second non-fun fact: The hubby is sick.  Which means I am nicely trying to stay away from him and also following him around with a can of Lysol.  That is real love people.

• And now…a fun fact! My name is Karissa and I have developed a sweet-tooth.  Much like the Pringles commercial “once you pop, you can’t stop.”  Once I start the dessert wagon it gets out of control.  Case in point: I ate a plate full of chocolate rice cakes topped with PB, strawberry jelly, and cream cheese icing.  [P.S. The ones topped with PB are the best for those looking for a fun sweet!]  Hmm…still craving sugar….4 fake oreo cookies later….tummy ache!  Luckily I had a nice salad and grilled cheese for dinner so I did obtain some nutrients!  I can’t believe I am saying this…but I might go all Ellen and sugar-detox.  Might.
• Awesome blog alert! I recently stumbled upon fellow Texan blog Running off the Reeses and fell in love!  Check out this no BS post about all those healthy living bloggers who preach crap about skinny not equaling happiness. I love bloggers, and people, who give it to ya straight.  [**I realize her post will probably raise hell among the healthy living bloggers, but girl has a point.  Just remember that getting to whatever your skinny is in a healthy way is the part that makes you happy]

• Giveaway winner! The Almighty Random.org says that the winner is #4

Carrie gave some great tips!!! Please email your mailing information to cardiofoodie@gmail.com

TGIF….except I am running 20 miles tomorrow.  Eek!

Happy Friday everyone!  Don’t you just hate when people are all chipper and say crap like that to you at the beginning of a long work day?  Or maybe I am just a bah-humbug year round.  Who knows!

Today’s Friday Fun Facts will be all about FOOD!!!!

Friday Fun Facts

• I love sweet breakfast food. In fact, I don’t remember the last time I had eggs or bacon or something like that for breakfast.  I enjoy having savory breakfast items at other times of the day, but in the morning I need some oatmeal, waffles, or cereal.

• Case in point:  I ate this concoction for breakfast today

Hominy Breakfast Bowl

1/2 cup leftover hominy

half apple-diced, cinnamoned, and cooked

1 muffin crumbled on top

cinnamon

Splenda (tasty chemicals)

I poured a splash of Silk so I could mix it all up.  Reheat in microwave until warmed thru.

• Apparently all that spinach I eat is good for my joints. According to this eating your leafy greens (Vit K) helps prevent arthritis in hands and maybe knees.  My husband should probably start an IV of spinach straight into his knees then.  Old man can’t walk down the parking garage stairs without hobbling a bit.

• I have never eaten a brussel sprout. Although my parents used to make me eat peas and scalloped potatoes (both things that literally make me throw up a bit in my mouth) there have never been any brussel sprouts in my home.  Honestly, I think I might like them.  I love about any roasted vegetable.

• Finally, if you cook like me (channeling Sandra Lee’s Semi-homemade recipes) you can do all sorts of things to make your food appear homemade!

For instance, make your cornbread (I couldn’t find a small baking dish so I made muffins) from a Jiffy box then sprinkle a little bit of canned corn on top (or mix into the batter)! My cornbread looked way more legit than just the blue box stuff!

Since the commenting is pretty slow on my blog (probably because I never comment on anyone else’s blog–although I do read them–in class) Leave me a Friday Fun Fact about Food!

I completely forgot to post my Friday Fun Facts so you all get a little Friday Fun on Saturday!  Bonus!

Friday Fun Facts

• Hi, my name is Karissa and I am a coffee addict. I did not even attempt to ween myself off coffee over the holiday break this year.  I must have coffee!!!!
• I can’t wait for March Madness. This statement is qualified.  Purdue must not lose again for me to be really excited about March madness.
• I have been crazy breakfast food all day long lately! It is no secret that I love breakfast!  And lately I have been eating breakfast stuff morning, noon, and sometimes even night.
• We had to turn on our furnace for the first time ever this week! In the two and half years we have lived in Houston we finally had to turn on the heat.  (We tried one time last year but it didn’t work).  It actually got down below freezing one day and hovered in the 30s and 40s for about a week and the apartment got cold.  Of course, when we turn the heat on the entire apartment smells like burnt hair and all of our fire detectors go off.
• I am so over school after 3 days. I am glad that this is my last semester because I honestly don’t think I have the energy to deal with this crap for much longer.  On the flip side, I am freaking out and don’t want to be in the real world either!!!

Leave me a belated Friday Fun Fact!

Friday Fun Facts

• Don’t forget to enter to win a $10 Wendy’s gift card thanks to Foodbuzz.  I will pick a winner at noon today!
• I may or may not have eaten an entire box of store brand Wheat Thins in the last two days.  Yeah…I might be in panic mode for finals now.
• Trooper got groomed yesterday!  He went from mutt to schnauzer mutt!

• I had toast for breakfast this morning.  Toast!  How lame!

Enter the Wendy’s giveaway and leave me a fun fact if you so feel!

Happy Friday! Feel free to smack me in the face virtually if you wish–I would smack me if I said that to someone right now.  Sorry…anxiety has kicked in.

Friday Fun Facts

• Houston’s Groupon today is for Nordstrom Rack and it says that it can be used nationwide but check fine print!

• I think I have had the exact same breakfast everyday this week.  Hey, if it ain’t broke…don’t fix it.

• I am sooooo glad I made the switch to half-caff a few months back.  I drink coffee like it is going out of style.  (I hope that expression means what I intended it to mean!)

• My hubby had a physical for work yesterday so he couldn’t eat all day.  Needless to say he went from the doctor straight to Kroger.  He got home and said “I thought you might like these for studying.”  I said, “Um…you already tore open the bag and ate them.”

• Now I know that comparing yourself to other women is a bad idea, but…

I saw a picture of this lady [source] and I guess she is on Sports Illustrated  or something…but I saw the picture and thought:  wow, I look just as good if not better than her in a bikini and I eat cupcakes for my meals…HA!  It is amazing what an Non-Photoshopped photo can do for your self confidence.  Thank you Brooklyn Whatever Your Name Is, I will eat a cupcake for you tonight!

Leave me a fun fact if you wish or yell about the media photoshopping women into Barbie Dolls.

It is Friday, what else would I be blogging about?

Friday Fun Facts

• Fridays aren’t really all that much fun for me.  I work first thing in the morning and go straight in to back-to-back classes.  BUT, I don’t have my night class, so woo hoo!!!

• This is what it looks like around my desk chair when I get up from working in the morning.  Think Trooper is crying for attention much?  He dug one of those toys out of his bin that still has the price tag on it!

• The hubby brought me a home a cupcake last night!  One of his safety officers is also a baker and she makes some seriously delicious stuff!  We are thinking about having a game party just so we can order a cake from her.

• I am seriously failing at marathon training.  Major fail.  I have yet to run at all this week although I did get 1 elliptical session and 1 strength session.  I am going to try and cram in 6 miles today, 3 miles Saturday, and regularly scheduled 6 miles on Sunday.  Luckily this is an easy week!  I have got to figure something out because I just don’t have the time or energy to work out right now.

• I had my first official bowl of pumpkin oats for the season!  Yum!  And it was even in the 50s this morning so I felt more legit.  I am so thankful for this Fall weather even if I only get it for 3 days.

Leave me a Friday Fun Fact if you feel so inclined!

It is Friday, although I am sure you already knew that.  Time for Friday Fun Facts!!!

Friday Fun Facts

• Most days I think I am the only person who reads my blog since I know for a fact my mother’s readership has gotten sketchy.
• I have already gone off my marathon training schedule.  I subbed in Cross training Wednesday, did not run at all yesterday (the hubby asked me to wait then got home too late), and will probably just run 6 miles tonight to make up for it.
• I might have eaten two bowls of cereal and a snack size Snickers for dessert last night.  That might have been the result of only having time to eat a granola bar for lunch.  I believe I am still hungry right now!!!
• I drink way too much coffee.  Way too much!  I have to have it every morning.  I should probably stop.  Chances of stopping:  50/50.
• I do not have any yogurt, and dairy kills my stomach, so I made a parfait-like thing this morning with 1 muffin, 1 handful of cereal, 1 banana, and milk. And I have a really blurry picture of it!

It was actually really good!  Kind of like banana nut tres leche cake!

Happy Friday!

If anyone does actually read this blog, go ahead and leave me a fun fact!

Yep, I am on my game and actual realize that today is Friday thus I have Friday Fun Facts for you!

Friday Fun Facts

• I do not curse.  Never have, and don’t allow it in my house (apartment).  Call me old grandma who doesn’t think it is lady-like or educated enough to use words with more than four letters.  Either way, I don’t.
• I am supposed to start official marathon training in two weeks and I have no idea how I am going to do that!  Right now I can fit in time 4 days a week including both my Saturday and Sunday.  So here is to hoping I can find a training schedule for 4 run days!
• I am so excited I got my free Kashi sample in the mail yesterday because I have no food and needed a snack for today!!!!
• I had really high blood pressure yesterday when I went to the doctors.  I think it may be time to lay off the coffee and find the time to decompress.  Ugh.  Both of those ideas just stress me out more!
• Trooper totally destroyed our bedroom last night when he was playing with my hubs.  He jumped full-force and head first into our side table.

Our lamp is destroyed, a big cup of water dumped all over the guitar and pile of Goodwill clothes.

And Trooper did not even blink an eye!  HAHAHAHAHA!  He finished his little circle and hopped straight up on the bed dog-smiling ready for more!  We could not contain our laughter- just look at that face!

Give me your Friday Fun Fact- seriously, I need something to do in school today.

Is it really October or is this the universe playing another cruel joke on me?  The month of October means the end of my “limited-freedom” and the start of finals.

[I inserted this picture after writing the post because I realized I had a pictureless post.  It has a pumpkin.  It is October.  It works?]

For those sane enough not to go to law school, the general rule for finals studying is to start with your first final; allot one week of study-time for each class and count back studying in reverse order. You start studying for you last final approx 5 weeks prior to your first final thus you are studying for your first final the week of.  Fun stuff huh?

Anyway, enough of that nonsense…it is Friday.  Friday Fun Fact time!

Friday Fun Facts

• I have finally caught up on my Google Reader which started the week at 927!!!!

• I am at a breaking point with law school right now.  I hate it to the point of resentment.  Probably not good considering I have to make it until May!

• I refuse to buy pink gifts for girl baby showers.  I buy yellow for both boys and girls.  Or green if it isn’t hideous.  Blame it on my Women’s Studies minor.

• I need to find a Halloween costume that provides more coverage than my bikini.  Seriously, who wears some of these things in public????

• I am really loving BioChemista’s Letters to Me campaign.  I tried to write a letter and could not.  I do not mention it on my blog (mainly because I am trying to move past that part of my life) but I have a very strained family life.  Honestly I do not think what I have really qualifies as much of a family life period.  Anyway, I put 1,000 miles between myself and my past and I still can’t write a Letter to Me addressing my issues.  [I know that members of my family read this blog--I do not mean to offend anyone but you all know the many issues I have dealt with over the years and the position I am in today.]

Alright give it to me–what is your Friday Fun Fact?