Bites of My Life

A few virtual happy hours, learned a new skill, live streamed workouts, supported local restaurants through take-out, went on about 10 walks and started watching Tiger King. Am I a quarantine queen yet? In all seriousness the gravity of coronavirus gets more real by the day as people nearer and dearer are being effected. It’s looking like the next few weeks/months will be spent at home, and I’m just really thankful for technology, and being under the same roof as loved ones. Staying in and counting my blessings.

-Forever thankful for my wild bunch of Kappa college besties. We are spread out amongst Oklahoma, Texas and London, and it somehow took quarantine to get us to do a group video chat for the first time. Realizing this needs to keep up even after Covid-19.
-When you gave up chips for lent and order tex-mex take out. Cucumbers don’t replace tortilla chips let me tell you that.
-Under-eye patches all morning is a work from home luxury I’m leaning into!
-Spoiled spoiled spoiled by quarantining at my parents! Amazing meals every day.
-Hooked on these protein banana pancakes! Indulgent but healthy and the recipe is saved in my highlights!
-Spent 9 hours on Friday learning how to edit videos. Check out my amateur handy work here.
-Finally got around to making the famous “Clayton’s Margaritas.” Despite adding too much egg white, for not liking margaritas, these were great.
-Prepping for another Instagram LIVE Sunday by flat laying my ingredients, but also taking this as a moment to show off my new leggings that I’m obsessed with (which are giving me Carol Baskin/Tiger King vibes but I’m going with it).
-These IG Lives are just too fun to be honest! Blueberry Banana Muffins were a hit with everyone who tuned in! This recipe is a few years old and I forgot how dang good they are.

Annie

Bites of My Life

Let’s talk about the stages of last week. Monday was business as usual with work and part 1 of The Bachelor finale. Tuesday was normal until I got home from work, had a snack, went on a walk and then got a wave of feeling so weak and nauseous (this same thing happened two weeks ago). Friends came over for part 2 of The Bachelor finale and I got sick the second they left. Wednesday was weird trying to feel better after a long night.

Thursday I spiraled out after working from home, watching way to much news and unrealistically convincing myself that I had coronavirus. Like full on spiral, taking my temperature every hour, calling my parents bawling, it was terrible. I was already planning on driving home Friday for another shower I was hosting, but it couldn’t come soon enough. Woke up early Friday to drive home to OKC, in the pouring rain the whole time might I add), and headed straight to work to do recon on the effects of COVID-19. We had a concert planned at work Friday night and a big St. Patrick’s Day party Saturday that we had to cancel. Being in the hospitality industry right now is wild.

Saturday I attempted to go on normally with two events I had, but came home after the day and showered, rested and tried to recover after the crazy week. Needless to say life is weird and scary and uncertain right now. I’m staying with my parents for moral support to help get through the next few days of unknown. If you are anxious right now, I feel you. I keep saying it, but we are all in this together and everyone’s feelings, emotions, concerns and decisions are all valid.

I’m also working on a Self-Distance To-Do list to help get through the next few weeks, hoping to throw them all in a blog post to share this week. Here’s to utilizing the extra time we have!

-Chugged this pedialyte Wednesday after a second hit of the stomach bug Tuesday. ElectroLIT made me LOL.
-Amazon find! These little pearl huggies are only $23!
-My friend Annie, yes Annie, posted her recipe for these Vegan Blueberry Muffins last week. I’ve been craving. muffins so I had to make them. I made a few substitutions, like using GF flour and almond milk. They turned out great.
-The new Siggi’s dairy free yogurt is SO good. One of the lowest in sugar dairy free yogurts I’ve found. Bought at Whole Foods. Made a yogurt bowl for lunch last week with vanilla yogurt, this fiber cereal that I love (and found at TJs), frozen raspberries and chia seeds.
-Another weekend another shower for one of my best friends! Starting to really get this host thing down. By nature I typically get designated the food, but it’s been so fun. We did a “Sarah Brunch” theme for Sarah Beth and it was perfect. Mimosas, coffee bar, mini chicken and waffles, deviled eggs, donuts, fruit and a cheese board of course!
-Bestie since 1st grade!
-Finally tried “the cookies” as my first social distancing baking project. They were great. Hype is real. It’s like perfect CCCs and shortbread cookies had a baby. And I love shortbread. Started baking to find out my parent’s were out of vanilla so made these with almond extract and added some sliced almonds to the dough. They came out so light and good.
-Going to try really really hard to not only eat cookies and carbs during the next month, but being home so much makes me crave comfort food and cooking indulgent dishes. Here’s a salad to try and stay on track.
-Read this book cover to cover by the fire Sunday night. SB gifted the hosts of her shower this book and it is actually a really great book. I fear cooking for large groups and this book walks you through how to do it seamlessly.

Annie