Today was a jam-packed day. Or, to describe it more accurately, it was an apple butter-packed day. I know, I know. Worst intro ever. 

Anyways, it’s been a busy day, but the fruits of my labor (okay, I promise to stop now) are paying off and I’m starting off my Winter quarter on the right foot and (hopefully) am getting into a pattern of balancing school work with cooking, workouts, blogging, friends, and Kyle. 

Here’s a look into my busy Tuesday with interjections of my eats courtesy of WIAW! Thanks, Jenn, for hosting! 

My day started around 6:10 a.m and I groggily checked my phone, which I keep on a desk next to my bed. Now that I think about it, I probably am going to end up from some sort of unknown cancer from having all those cell phone rays (is that even a thing) so close to my brain. Anyways, I digress. So I opened my phone, read some emails, promptly read them over again because I can’t understand or compute anything at 6:10 in the morning, and then nimbly dropped it on my face because I have the world’s best motor skills. Not fun, but it certainly woke me up! 

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I crawled out of bed, took a shower, half-did my makeup, read and commented on a few lovely blogs, and ate a breakfast of yogurt, cottage cheese, and fruit. (Too boring to post a picture).

Then, I rushed to my 8 a.m Organic Chemistry class and sat through a long lecture. By the end of it, my brain juices were basically depleted, so I used the 40 minutes between my Chemistry and French class to grab a mocha from our campuses’ cafe and browse Pinterest/answer a few emails on my iPad mini (thanks Dad- I love it!).

Then, it was off to my French class, followed by an interesting biology lecture on ecology. While I had a busy day, I was done with class by 12:30 and had plenty of time to work on non-school related things!

I came back to my apartment, cleaned up the living room/took down Christmas decorations, started making my Pumpkin Spice Apple Butter while watching Dexter on Netflix, and prepared a fast and easy lunch. I know it sounds like a weird combo, but that apple butter (which tastes like the inside of an apple pie, by the way) pairs AMAZINGLY with cottage cheese. I made a big batch to have as a healthy, protein-packed snack or breakfast. I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned this yet before, but I recently was contacted and hired by a women’s fitness and health website as a freelance writer (!!!). This is actually the second job opportunity that I’ve had directly due to Apple of My Eye, and I can’t even express how cool it is to have a hobby lead to new work experiences! Anyways, one of my first couple assignments is to create a recipe and write a corresponding post with it.

Here’s a small (unbaked) teaser of the healthy Apple Crumble Fruit Bars I created! 

After the bars were done baking, I walked over to a nearby small gym that is owned by our apartment complex and did 25 minutes of a HITT elliptical workout, followed by a 20 minute interval workout on the treadmill. To round everything off, I did a few arm and leg exercises (holy jump lunges). 

Once I got back, I snacked on a banana while I cooked up some panko crusted salmon, Balsamic Garlic Brussels Sprouts, and brown rice for dinner for Kyle and I. Kyle was off playing tennis till 9 at night, so I wanted to make sure he had a good dinner waiting for him when he got back!

Post-dinner work included writing up most of the article for my recipe, replying to a few more emails, and studying a bit for my classes. Oh, and a bit of online shopping on Hautelook. How cute is this?!

Now, time to sleep!

~Christine