Vlog About Vlogging

I was going to post an Nsync song to start out this post, seeing as it's payday. But apparently I started out another post with it. Oops. Deal with it. HAPPY FRIDAY EVERYBODY!

Let's get this started, shall we?

Day 12: My biggest accomplishment in life. Woah. Um. Honestly, my biggest accomplishment hopefully hasn't happened yet, because I'm always wanting bigger and better things. But so far, I'd have to say I felt most accomplished when I figured out the track I wanted to take. I've talked before about how I was every major under the sun before I turned to Kinesiology. But once I set on that pace, everything just fell into place. I would sit in Anatomy & Phys class spellbound by the information I was learning (who the heck talks about anatomy that way??) and everything just felt right.

Then I went on to become way more involved in my blogging than I ever thought I could be. I discovered FitFluential. I discovered Fit Approach. I tested for my personal trainer certification. I'm waiting in anticipation to hear back.

And I feel happy. Truly happy. :)

Day 13: The question is: would I rather be rich or healthy? My answer is healthy, and it's as simple as that. I need to be healthy to do the stuff that makes me happy. That's all there is to it.

So I'm officially opening donations. ;)

You'll hear about my workout on Monday as part of the Weekly Chase, so for now we're moving right along....Today I vlogged about vlogging!!

I'd love to hear your tips and tricks. And I'd love to watch your vlogs. So comment! Discuss!

And stay away from black cats today. :)

Challenge Accepted-Again

Happy Friday everybody! I've gotten quite a bit accomplished this morning, so why don't I just keep checking stuff off of my list while I'm at it? I'm headed to a six hour shift today, but then I'm off to the beach. And I'm very very very impatient.

So hopefully this will not be too scatterbrained!

First things first! My blogging challenge for the day. We're on Day 6 of July here, people. Life is speeding by faster than I expected. Today I'm supposed to tell you which celebrity I'd spend 15 minutes with. This is a really difficult question for me! There are a bunch of people that I could pick. But I think I'm going to have to go with this guy.

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I've loved him since before he was Barney on How I Met Your Mother. Or at least before I started watching it. Because I guess it's been on a bit of time if I think about it. I love Dr. Horrible's Sing-A-Long. And if you don't know what I'm talking about, you really have some watching to do. Like, actually. Take some time out of your day and laugh a little bit, yeah?

But anyway! I choose NPH because I just want to figure out what's inside of his head. He's got a whole bunch of knowledge and wisdom up in that there head of his. I'd like to see him not on camera and see if he's any different, you know what I mean? Also, playing with his children would kind of be cool.

Plus I'd get to say I met Neil Patrick Harris.

AMAZING.

Now onto some less exciting things. Maybe. My second vlog!! So far so good. I've actually been thinking about this all week. So hopefully this vlogging thing is something I'll stick with!

ALWAYS an attractive still. What can I say?

Just to take care of my incompetence, you can find Bex and her project here. My computer spazzed and cut off my ending and I didn't have time to fix it. But what are you gonna do?

Which celebrity would you like to meet?

Avocado Bana-na-za!

Happy Friday!! Yesterday I left you with a list of things I wanted to talk about today. But now I don't feel like talking about a lot of them. Don't you hate when that happens? I'm going to leave one or two off today because I don't want to overwhelm you with a random blog post.

Let's talk about some running first. I did my first speedwork session on Wednesday. I waited until it was dark outside and Paul and I ran together so I was safe and all that jazz. And it was AWESOME. It was nice and cool and 4 repeats felt like cake. I guess it was just one of those days!

I've been stretching like a very good girl. But not so wonderful is that my knee is NOT taking to this training thing very well. Therefore, I've had to change my plan. Which is fine, because it's the first week. And it's better to know now than figure it out halfway through training and have a busted knee. So I'm cutting a weekly run! And I'm okay with it! Go figure.

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My apartment still smells amazing. You wanna know why? Banana bread. But why is there a picture of avocados, you ask? This week I put out a call for banana bread recipes and got three that I was seriously considering. But it was a comment I received mentioning avocados that won out. So thank you Teamarcia for inspiring me! :)

I took to the web and found a recipe for banana bread made with avocado. And it did not disappoint. It's so moist and delicious and wonderful. DO IT. You will not regret it!

Avocanana Bread

 Thanks to the California Avocado Commission

• ⅓ cup old-fashioned oats (I used Cinnamon KIND granola because I didn't have enough oats)
• 1 cup all purpose flour
• 1 tsp. baking powder
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• ½ tsp. salt
• 1 tsp. cinnamon
• 1 ripe, Fresh California Avocado, seeded
• ¼ cup canola oil
• 1 cup (packed) brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 very ripe bananas (I had three!)
• ½ cup chopped walnuts (I left these out)
• ¼ cup buttermilk (I used coconut milk...because that's all I had. Haha.)

1. Line a 9 x 5 x 3 inch loaf pan with nonstick foil and lightly grease the bottom only.
2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
3. Combine dry ingredients: oats, flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon. Set aside.
4. Scoop the avocado into a large bowl and mash lightly.
5. Add oil and brown sugar to the avocado. Cream together using an electric mixer, until light and creamy.
6. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
7. Stir in bananas, then walnuts and dry ingredients.
8. Stir in buttermilk and beat just until buttermilk is incorporated.
9. Pour into prepared loaf pan and bake in preheated oven for 1 hour and 10 minutes. Avocanana bread is quite moist and may not pass the "toothpick" test at this point. If you prefer a drier bread, bake a little longer.

Yields: 1 loaf

Make it. Love it. Make it again because it's gone.

And lastly, I leave you with my challenging thing. A few days ago, Heather from Better With Veggies put out a video challenge. And I'm taking it! I've never done a vlog before. So be nice. Or something. For some reason, it freaks me out that people I know could be watching this. I'M TRYING NOT TO CARE. SO THERE. HERE IT GOES.

Challenge. Accepted.

And please excuse my beautiful nature. I've been biking all day. Which means sweating. :)

This was the most attractive still option. That's when you know it's bad.

Have you ever vlogged before? Do you like it?