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Spaghetti Alfredo with Shrimp and Asparagus!

So for lunch I was really craving Alfredo pasta, so using whatever ingredients I had, I came up with this!

Voila! It was definitely yummy, nutritious, and completely hit the spot!

Ingredients:
2 cups of spaghetti squash
1 serv. shrimp
12 asparagus spears, cut inch-sized
1/4 cup of Classico, light creamy alfredo sauce

Prepare spaghetti squash.
Steam asparagus and cut when cooled
Boil shrimp.

Mix together with alfredo sauce on the stove. Put crushed red peppers and black pepper to taste.

~269 cals

Enjoy:]

The Unhappy Story

“Tell me a story.” My voice came out weak and feeble.

“What kind of story?”

“A love story.” I could his feel his eyes on me, but I didn’t dare look at him, knowing that if I did, I would instantly forgive him for everything, which wasn’t what he deserved.

He glanced up, feeling the rain on his face for the first time. “Well, I could tell you one, but it wouldn’t compare.”

“Compare to what?”

“Living in it.”

I looked into his eyes, so he could see the dagger he had just put into my heart with those words.

“A love story shouldn’t consist of lies, betrayals, and schemes. You played me for a fool.”

“Only for a fool in love, just like I am.”

He reached for my hand, but I recoiled from his touch.

“Then this story ends here, with an unhappy ending.”

“No, this is just the beginning. We are just beginning,” he said with a pleading look.

“I’m afraid we’re on the wrong page, in fact, I think we’re in separate books.” With that I walked away, aware that he was witnessing the moment where I walked out of his life forever.

PB and J Overnight Oats

I love PB&J! Put it in oatmeal? And it's just absolutely divine. Such a great way to start your morning:)

1/2 C oats
1 C almond milk unsweetened

Place in a Tupperware container in fridge over night.

Microwave for 2 minutes in the morning. Add 1 packet of Truvia, 1 serving of PB2 and your choice of jam/preserves.

Enjoy!

Perception

"The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was and the present worse than it is."

Pumpkin Muffin Cookies

I made this last week as a pick-me-up for myself after sooo much reading, and I have to say, it was perfect for this time of year! Although, I'll admit as October ends, I couldn't be happier because I am pumpkined out!

I'll call these muffin cookies, because it tasted like it was a median between the two, which I think is a good thing, because who doesn't like cookies for breakfast?

Yields 32 cookies. ~42 cals per cookie

Ingredients:
1 C whole wheat flour
1C AP flour
1C brown sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons of pumpkin spice
1/2 C unsweetened applesauce
1 teaspoon vanilla
1C canned pumpkin

Preheat oven to 350 degrees, prepare baking sheet by using a non-stick spray. Cream sugar with wet ingredients. Use a separate bowl to mix dry ingredients, then add to wet mixture. Mix until dough is formed. Place on baking sheet in ping-pong sized balls. Bake 15-18 minutes. Let cool, and enjoy!

Time of Change.

I woke up this morning completely anew. Have you ever experienced that before? Like you're opening your eyes for the first time? Seeing the rain and the leaves change for the first time? Everything so beautiful you just want to cry and soak it all up before it disappears? Knowing that a picture won't ever be able to capture it all: the colors, the emotions, the perspective. Hoping that it'll never end...

There's something hypnotizing about this time of year. Maybe it's due to the feeling of change, like maybe, just maybe... your life could change.

Week 3 or 4?

It's week 3 or 4 in the quarter system. I don't know whether to count the first week seeing as it was only two days.  The weeks don't really matter. All I can say is, I want out!

Yes, I'm learning interesting things, but my heart just isn't in it. It's everywhere else, but in school. My mind keeps wandering and my heart beats for something else. I know I should be enjoying the moment, but I feel like I'm going insane.

Twelve more novels to read, seven more papers to write... quizzes, midterms, and other assignments and readings from PDF's, anthologies, and textbooks.

All this in roughly seven weeks.

I've never had such a hard time focusing as I do now. Is it because I finally see beyond the bubble I'm in? It is because I've lost myself in a fictional world, prompting me to write and breathe life into things that yearn to exist?

I don't know... but I'm counting the days until I can fully immerse myself into the life that I'm longing for.

School just isn't for me anymore.

Explosions-Ellie Goulding

You trembled like you'd seen a ghost
And I gave in
I lack the things you need the most, you said where have you been
You wasted all that sweetness to run and hide
I wonder why
I remind you of the days you poured your heart into
But you never tried
I've fallen from grace
Took a blow to my face
I've loved and I've lost
I've loved and I've lost

Explosions...on the day you wake up
Needing somebody and you've learned
It's okay to be afraid
But it will never be the same
It will never be the same

You left my soul bleeding in the dark
So you could be king
The rules you set are still untold to me and I lost my faith in everything
The nights you could cope, your intentions were gold
But the mountains will shake
I need to know I can still make

Explosions...on the day you wake up
Needing somebody and you've learned
It's okay to be afraid
But it will never be the same

And as the floods move in
And your body starts to sink
I was the last thing on your mind
I know you better than you think
Cause it's simple darling, I gave you a warning
Now everything you own is falling from the sky in pieces
So watch them fall with you, in slow motion
I pray that you will find peace of mind
And I'll find you another time
I'll love you, another time

Explosions...on the day you wake up
Needing somebody and you've learned
It's okay to be afraid
But it will never be the same

Skeletons-This Century

You're like a ghost to me
A love so true I cannot see
It's such a mystery
But I'm
Head over heels for you

Can't get inside your head
Threw away the key instead
And kept it locked away
But I'm
Head over heels for you

You got the shackles on me, yeah
But I just wanna be free, yeah
Don't need an expert to see, yeah
That it's time to shake your skeletons

Shake your skeletons (x2)

You're an anomaly
Wrapped up in a million dreams
You're a love conspiracy
But I'm
Head over heels for you

You're floating endlessly
Into infinity
Run circles around me
But I'm
Head over heels for you

You got the shackles on me, yeah
But I just wanna be free, yeah
Don't need an expert to see, yeah
That it's time to shake your skeletons

Yeah, yeah
Shake your skeletons (x2)

I know that you felt so low, yeah

Shake your skeletons

So take your skeletons and break my heart
Don't bring me back, bring me back to the start
Don't leave me here when we've gotten this far
So come on, come on and break your skeletons

Shake your skeletons (x2)

I know that you felt so low, yeah

Shake your skeletons

So take your skeletons and break my heart
Don't bring me back, bring me back to the start
Don't leave me here when we've gotten this far

It's time to shake your skeletons

Sometimes

I wonder if I'm working for a non-existent future or a future of perpetual loneliness, with only my mind for comfort.

Goethe, you've made me very sad...