As usual for Friday,  Debby and I walked to work and stopped to get our smoothie fix.

Smoothie Friday is little tradition we keep up throughout the school year.

Something to look forward to all week and a little way to celebrate the end of the work week and the start of the weekend.

We always go to the same place.

And Maria always greets us with her beautiful smile:

Debby and I ordered this smoothie but subbed out peanut butter for almond butter and traded the vanilla cream for vanilla soy milk and we added spirulina-YUM:

Debby and I are two happy girls on Smoothie Friday!

Did you celebrate Smoothie Friday today by having a shake or a smoothie?

We actually had something extra special today to celebrate.  Debby got engaged!  I am so happy for her   She found a great guy.  They will both be super happy.

On another note, thank you for all of your great pre race suggestions.  I really liked reading all of them!

Unfortunately I have already broken one of mine-YOGA

Instead of doing yoga this afternoon I was at the bike shop ordering my new bike

I am so dang excited!

As soon as I get her I will show you…….Oh I can’t wait.

Hope you have a great night.

Are you doing anything fun this weekend?

Stay tuned because I am announcing a giveaway tomorrow.  I think you will like it!

Walked to work with the usual suspects-Debby and Julie.

Stopped for a smoothie with Debby-Julie kept walking she had to get to work:

Doesn’t Debby look cute with her big sunglasses?

She wanted to take them off but I wouldn’t let her!

My smoothie had mixed berries, almond butter, banana, granola and Spirulina in it (Debby got the same):

Delicious!

Of course to counteract the cold I got tea:

Got to work:

Fridays are great because it is Quiz Day.  I get a lot of grading done while my classes take their quizzes.  It is nice.

Walked home with the girls.

Love to be home:

I just got a new magazine in the mail-Fridays are great!

I am hoping reading this tonight will give me some much-needed motivation for Sunday mornings 5K.

After Bill and I have dinner, we are off to Target.

Yes Bill and I have a date with Target tonight.  We are out of everything essential-you know TP, paper towels, razors, etc.  We have got to go.  We are romantic like that-hot date night at Target : )

What magazines do you read and do you go to Target for essentials or somewhere else?

Happy Friday night!

Oh almost forgot-I have two giveaways in the near future.  Stay tuned I am super excited to share them with you.

Anyway, we decided to open the bottle and the top of it broke off while we were pulling out the cork!

What in the world?!  Has this ever happened to anyone else?

Bill decided he could save the wine (thank god).  So he used a paper towel and we poured our wine through it so we would not get any glass in our glasses.  Smart man!  No wine should ever be wasted. Hee hee

I know what you are thinking?  Classy people for sure!

And today is Friday!  And Smoothie Friday at that.  What could be better?

The girls and I walked to our favorite place:

I got my smoothie:

I got a Butterfinger Smoothie.  It has carrot juice, almond butter, banana, and soy milk.  I added Spirulina because I like it green!

And Tea:

It was pretty good! I got it because  Mark from Living Wellness suggested it. I would get it again.

Here we are before we head out to work (sorry for the blurry pic):

Julie and Debby thank you for being such great walking partners!

At nutrition break I had a snack (my lovely vegan energy bars):

Lunch was leftover pasta:

And my afternoon snack was this bar:

It’s funny-I used to love these bars but now found them just okay.  Plus all the ingredients throw me off a bit.  The list was a mile long!

Now I am at home safe and sound and very happy.

I forsee a relaxing dinner at home.

What are you doing this wonderful Friday evening?

Here is the salad I made us for dinner last night.

Started with some greens:

Added some salad staples:

Added some salad fun  (love raisins and nuts and steamed broccoli):

The finished product with some hummus and veggie burgers:

Served on my favorite plate.  Got these plates ions ago in Colorado.  Little bit of mountains at the beach!

Oh yes, well back to SMOOTHIE FRIDAY-the best day of the week!

This one is called PB and J-it had mixed berries, peanut butter, ice and spirulina.  It was good.  You should try it!

Here is my snack today:

And here is lunch.  I ended up eating only one orange.

And now the weekend awaits.  What do you have planned?