Bored!????

Sunday Morning Brunch

Pumpkin Egg Whites and Brown Sugar, Topped with cranberries, mango, blueberries, a banana, peanut butter, toast AND a turkey sausage patty…

Body:
I am so tired ! I don’t feel that great ( Jeff I think gave me a cold he has been fighting off) so I’m not sure yet what I’ll do

Mind:
I guess I SHOULD catch up on the next set of assignments for classes but I am just a little burnt out- I feel like I wouldn’t be productive or enjoy it as much ….

Soul:
I love sunday night TV! I had such a fun weekend, I am thinking of going shopping for some groceries or to the mall to browse but I feel bored, but tired but restless at the same time..
Our friends have left for home and I already have washed and dried the guest towels and sheets , did a load of my own laundry, uploaded all my pictures and posted , not sure what to do now- I may bake some muffins – or watch the Steeler game- oh I don’t know !
I think this week was just SO busy and filled with SO much that I need “down” time just to chill out ?

I’m not the question of the day type, but what do you do when you are bored?

Deep Fried

Tailgate Time!..

Me and Jeff…

This is one of his best friends’ Hanz, our other friends Nick and Brit in the back! Like the weather in the back too? It threatened us early ( hence the poncho) but then poured shortly after this!
Here is what is in that drink I’m holding- Blueberry Vodka and Pomegranate Fuze… I had this and a beer (someone else has the picture) . We didn’t really have much to drink because we were so involved with the fryer/cooking

Andrea, Hanz, Me, KC Mo

Lalala… now its time to get serious with ….

The deep fryer

But Before all of that…..

We decided as a group friday night to borrow jeff’s parents deep fryer and fry turkeys for the tailgate. We had to head to the tailgate by noon and I woke up at 9:30 am ( late night!) – and immediately decided to get in a great workout to start the day out right!

Body: Biked 10 miles (Random hill) and Elliptical 30 minutes- Fantastic Sweat!
Mind: I read one article before I left for the gym!
Soul: SO Excited to have my lovely friends all together in one place today! It was SO MUCH FUN!

After the gym I fueled up on oikos organic vanilla, some mixed nuts, some kashi blueberry cereal, and some peanut butter all mixed in there

I was told I had to name the first turkey- and since we needed peanut oil for the fryer- I named it “Peanut”. Then, the second turkey came out and I was asked to name that one!- At that point, I asked “How many turkey’s do we have?!?” because I thought we bought 1.. They said “3″….. So after pondering while they were prepping #2- I called out “Butter… the first one was Peanut, this one is Butter and the third one can be…. Jelly! We can have peanut, butter and jelly!”

Here is What I Ate:
Veggies, A little ranch, a couple thin slices of cheese, a few triscuits

Piece of Turkey ( Peanut) and a fried mozzarella stick

French Fries! I had that big on on the right – yes I only had one- I saved the rest for Andrea who was arriving late ( I was completely happy with eating one because I also ate a cheese stick, and turkey- no need to go overboard but no need to deprive myself of goodies!)

Not pictured: I had a big slice of Butter… and a big slice of Jelly

Some of the goodies that people brought to fry- Jalepeno poppers, a mini pizza ?, hot dogs, sausages… the fries..Here are the turkeys:
“Peanut” – in all his rubbed glory

“Butter”

“Jelly”
So we researched how to fry the turkey.
As a disclaimer, I am not a professional turkey fryer person and PLEASE research on your own how to fry it properly. It is a very dangerous activity, too much oil can overflow and potentially cause fires. You can gage how much oil you need to cover the turkey but filling your fryer with un-flammable WATER and your turkey. You also do not want to use a frozen turkey as it can catch on fire.
So, here is what we did… We used three large jugs of peanut oil and filled our pot with it, heated it up to 350 degrees ( took about 30 minutes). We rubbed the turkey with zataran’s cajun seasoning. We dunked each down into the hot oil jacuzzi for 4-5 minutes per pound…”Peanut” weighed about 6.5 pounds so it took about 30 minutes. “Peanut” “Butter” and “Jelly” were all just turkey breasts, which made the process much easier and worthwhile because you filled up and heated up the fryer with $50-60 of oil, you should get your money’s worth out of it right!

So this is just a description of how we fried the turkeys- super enjoyable time although it was rainy and chilly!

Friday night

We all went out to a new bar in town after lots of catching up at our place- Here is our newly engaged friends, hee heee , they both closed their eyes!

Weekend- Friday

Yah! I got approved for the foodie blogroll/foodbuzz…. But I deleted the emailed to quickly, so now I have to figure out how to set it up!

This weekend has been AWESOME and INCREDIBLY FUN!

Friday:

Shopping with Mom! We actually had such a fun time shopping we couldnt bare to stop and eat- we grabbed a soft pretzel and Fuze EMPOWER! I have been waiting for these to arrive and really liked them! Pomegranate Acai Berry

It was pouring down rain the whole day but that did not deter us! I bought new bedding finally! I have been searching for exactly what I found for a while and it could not have been a more perfect find, on sale! I also found guest room towels on clearance and a dust ruffle for the guest room bed. My mom bought me new placemats and some new bowls ( I have been wanting to make blog pictures more interesting!) and workout top AND I found a great shirt and dress!

We spent so much time shopping that when I got home, I wanted to wash everything and get it ready for guests!

Dinner: Leftover pizza with lots of veggies ( I actually ended up putting the veggies on the pizza then making a veggie pizza sandwich out of it! I wanted to take a picture but my hands were all dirty at that point!)