Life: summer routine!

Summer is here! So exciting!!! 😆 

I’m parent-free! So exciting!!! 😆 (okay, don’t let my parents know that). I do love them, a lot! But I’ve got used to live alone, so having them with me 24 hrs a day in a junior apartment is tough!  Having parents here is nice because I don’t have to cook, clean, laundry. But during their stay (1.5 months), I miss good sleep (right, I couldn’t sleep well 90% of the time when they were here), I miss being alone, I miss my old routines.

Mom left yesterday so today I welcomed with my favorite summer routines! 😉

35 min morning run!

All red and sweaty mess!

Juicing!!! 😆

favorite combo: romaine, celery, carrot, lemon, ginger, green pepper, apple, cucumber and pinch of stevia

Look this beauty

30 min later… I made my favorite breakfast combo: protein cake!

I’ve been changing the original recipe a lot and came to this one, which is my current favorite

• 1/4 cup pumpkin puree
• 1 whole egg + 1 egg white
• 1 tsp coconut oil
• 2 tbsp coconut flour
• 1 tbsp cocoa powder
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 cup fresh blueberries

the whole egg and the coconut oil made it more nutritious and more filling. No more 2 hrs-later-hungriness!

I’ve been dealing with some stressful issues these days, that’s why I didn’t post. More about that later! 🙂

Q: Do you have a new routine for summer?

Q: What’s your favorite summer breakfast?

I miss weekend because

Since Monday morning I started missing weekend because

1. I sleep much better during weekend (night and day), I’m sleep deprived during the week. I often wake up before 5 AM 😦
2. I get time to organize my apartment
3. I get time to catch up on blog reading
4. I get time to read leisure books
5. I get time to meet new and old friends

and I can continue … 😉

Anyway…. I’m glad that wednesday is almost over and I’m hosting a housewarming party this Friday!!! 😆

Rewind a little bit. Monday 6.30 AM

ready for 5 miles run

juice ingredients

new breakfast combo: parfait made with roasted kabocha, greek yogurt and raspberries

the most hated housework: IRONING 👿

I don’t do bed every morning…. only when I can’t stand the mess anymore 😉

chinese food for dinner: tomato, bamboo, black fungus and winter squash stew. YUM YUM~~~

bok choy sauteed with mushrooms

seaweed salad (I can’t get enough of it :D)

very healthy and filling dinner combo. don’t you think? 😉

Dessert: rainbow color corn! 😆

I’m soooo obsessed with CORNS. heheh….:lol:

Q: What do you miss about weekend?

Morning run & breakfast :)

Since I moved to DC mornings are enjoyable instead of rushing. I wake up around 5.30-6AM, before 7AM I was ready to go out for a run or yoga class

Friday I was ready for a short run. Dressed up for the “occasion” 😉

40 min later I was back. My intention was to do 4 miles but I ended up 4.5 miles

I have a lot of thoughts about running, the distance, the speed, the heat and whether to participate in races…. I guess I need to write a post to organize my mind later.

What a better fuel than a juice after a workout? I haven’t used the juicer since last summer… I almost forgot how refreshing it is. Now that I have all the kitchen gadgets in one place and displayed, it’s easier to use them more often 😉

meanwhile re-heat the oatmeal and make a puffed egg white with LC

lovely green juice 😆

egg puff with LC and seaweed salad in the NEW bamboo set

all together

and dressed up for the “occasion”: the office lady 😉

Q: what are you doing on this lovely Saturday? 😉 I just came back from an Astanga yoga class (first time), it was great, I’ll definitely go back for more. I’ll run some errands and then a dinner party at friend’s. I think he mentioned lobster! Yay~~~  😀