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Happy Cinco de Mayo!!

I hope everyone is sitting poolside with a margarita and some chips & salsa! or at least, that's where I wish I were right now!

Sunday

• Went to dance and only stayed for one class because of my knee. I still felt like I got a good workout though.
  
• Afterwards, I went with my friend Rachel up to Santa Monica. Her bf is a chef for a restaurant that had a catering event the next day. We helped him for about 5 minutes then ended up sitting and enjoying lemon bars he made for us, followed by a sample of the catered meal: pasta with marinara and lots of tomatoes :)
  
  
  My camera is acting weird hence the blurriness, but we had the entire restaurant to ourselves (it's closed on Sundays!)
  
  
• We walked around 3rd street promenade afterwards and then I headed home and went to Borders with my mom to catch up on some magazine reading!
  
  Monday:
• Definitely dropped my phone from the stairmaster at the gym and cracked the front screen! I still had a greeeaaattt (in tony the tiger's voice) workout, though!!
  
• I came home and made a pouch for dinner with some marinated TJs Mahi Mahi, asparagus, and lots of mushrooms (stef's fav!) .. Threw that baby in the oven for 20 minutes and unwrapped all of its goodness ;)

• Since I hate wasting veggies (bc i spend so much $$ on them!), I used the rest of my carrots for some carrot-bran muffins using the recipe from Self Magazine... I replaced the sugar with 1 Tbsp of Agave, added 1/2 cup wheat bran and 1/4 cup vanilla almond milk, substituted pumpkin for the oil, and used 1 cup carrots instead of only 1/2. I also cooked them for 15 minutes instead of the recommended 30!
  

One of those with pumpkin Fage (below) was my breakfast this morning. I had planned to have the yogurt last me 2 breakfasts but i finished it this morning. I had the sudden impulse to add up my breakfast calories this morning and had a mere freak out. I started to calm down when i realized that I make breakfast and lunch my larger meals and then eat light in the evening for dinner.

Since I never got around to the 25 survey tag, I finally did it today!! Hope everyone has a great Cinco de Mayo!!

1. I'm obsessed with artificial heat and have one of those space heaters that is constantly on ( i blame my mom for getting me hooked on this!). I try to make up for its high energy-sucking-contribution to global-warming by not running the central heat.

2. One summer, I trained with Alvin Ailey Dance Company in NYC and ever since then, I've wanted to live in a big city. Apparently, I forgot and moved to Orange County.

3. Growing up, I always wanted a sister so I would make my brother sit there while I curled his hair, did his make up and put him in dresses... Instead, I consider my two younger cousins the closest I'll ever come to having sisters.

4. The last couple years, I've turned into a morning person and i LOVE everything about it: being up before the world starts getting busy, BREAKFAST (!), and the Today Show.

5. However, I am still a night person and love staying up late. I need to figure out how to balance the two.

6. My favorite sport is leg wrestling. Thumb wrestling holds a close second.

7. My alarm clock is always 20 minutes fast. My car clock is 11 minutes fast. I am usually still late.

8. My favorite movie of all time is A League of Their Own even though I hate playing baseball/softball.

9. I've been to England, France, Switzerland, Australia, Italy, Ireland, and Mexico, yet I've never been to the Grand Canyon or Vegas which are less than 5 hours from me. It's pathetic.

10. When in doubt, I blame the quarter-life crisis.

11. I never liked maple syrup... I do however, like the fake stuff.

12. I used to HATE peanut butter. Sometimes I wish I still did!

13. When I "rescued" my dog as a puppy, they told me she would be the size of the mom who was 40 lbs.. umm, 75 pounds later... yeah, if anyone needs to be watching their weight, it's definitely Kiki.

Puppy Days

All grown up (with my brother)

14. My mom once got a hairless cat (like from austin powers). I thought it was the grossest thing until I had to cat-sit one night. I fell in love with it because it would fall asleep in my lap. It died the next day from a heart murmur.

15. My favorite Star Wars movie is the 7th one... wait, there's only 6, you say? My point exactly.

16. My mom let me have hamsters when I was little and I would put them in my barbie house to play with Barbie. I also thought it'd be a good idea to have a "pocket pet" with one until it got stuck in my zipper. My hamster days ended after that.

17. I would always sit Indian style in my desk chairs. My 6th grade teacher would call me Gumby.

8. I have never seen my dad without a beard. I don't think i want to either.

19. I'm just a girl....standing in front of the world...asking for it to love me. ;)

20. I love theme parties. For my last birthday, we had an "L" party for "Lauren" and everyone had to dress up as something that started with an L. I think the most creative costume was a girl that came as Lindsey Lohan and her boyfriend accompanied her as a 'line of cocaine'!!

21. I am ticklish the way Kiki is chubby.

22. I once decided for Halloween that I wanted to be a dining room table. (yeah, i dont know what spurred that idea).. but my parents made me the costume.

23. I like to watch movies at home in French with English subtitles turned on. The goal: to be fluent in another language before I croak.

24. I used to work in the research dept. of a psych ward doing brain scans and interviews with schizophrenic and bipolar patients. I had a panic attack one day and was convinced I was going to become schizophrenic so I quit the internship a couple months later. This is also partly why I wanted to leave my psych major and go to law school.

25. I lived with a boy 2 of the 4 years that we dated. Now, i refuse to live with a bf until there's some "icing" on my left ring finger.

I think most of my fellow bloggies have already done this but if you haven't then it's YOU I'm tagging! :)

EDIT: FYI Ladies: Megan has a GREAT blog and is holding her first giveaway of some pretty cool stuff! Also, Ashley is having a great contest giveaway of Indian food to help spice up your life!! Lastly, this lovely "Apple" is having a sweeeeeet contest in celebration of Mothers Day!!!