Guilt free brownies

Guess what I'm makingggg! Black bean brownies- a less guilty version of your typical brownies. BOOYAH!

I've been meaning to try these for a while, I've been all about guilt-free variations to your typical meals lately; like cauliflower mashed potatoes, spaghetti squash, black bean brownies, etc.

You can check out the recipe for these Vegan Gluten Free Black Bean Brownies by following that link. I had most of these ingredients already, I followed the recipe as is except for I got regular golden brown sugar instead of raw sugar. I don't own a food processor, so making these in a blender kinda sucked and I had to add a couple of tablespoons of water. But it worked out. I chopped up some pecans to top them.

These babies are about 140 cals a pop, which beats your regular brownies by about half the guilt. I'm currently enjoying a couple (one wasn't enough, oops), which a nice glass of coconut milk. And of course watching some PLL.

#noregrets

How to ride a bike in a skirt

So I'm aiming to finally do this bike cruisers thing tomorrow, and also pick up my bike which that girl I knew for 2 minutes still has... I don't even remember what my bike looks like. Anyway, the theme is "dress night". While trying to search the interwebs for wisdom on how to ride a bike in a skirt/dress, I ran into this video. WHERE HAS THIS BEEN ALL MY LIFE? Errbody in the club needs to see this.

You're.Welcome.

Yikes bikes...

So today has been crazy town.

For starters, I'm trying out this new diet. Not like a diet-diet, just a... diet. Like just keeping a food diary and being more conscious about low processed foods, low junk food/sweets, and watching portion control. To test myself I stared at this during my entire meeting this morning:

Good news is, I didn't eat it. Bad news is, I threw away a perfectly good doughnut so the doughnut police is probably after me.

While at meeting, I get a group chat from my friends for this bike cruisers situation- it's like a weekly thing where people basically barhop with bikes. As if my coordination isn't questionable already. Sooo spur of the moment I buy a bike on my lunch break- I know, right...who am I. (pics later)

AND THEN. Bike cruise situation didn't even happen because this city is trying to act like Seattle and rain on my parade everyday.
Lyke, wut? where do I live? I'm confused.

In other news, my Birchbox arrived today!

I'll try to write another post about this month's box, once I get a chance to test all the products and write reviews. I tried Ipsy for a while and I'm thinking about switching back to it. Has anyone tried Birchbox or Ipsy or any other subscription box?

Oh p.s., I know this blog has zero subscribers right now. But anyone who comes across this and decides to keep reading: Would anyone be interested in nutrition tips? How to write meal plans, keep food logs, etc? I studied nutrition as an undergrad so I know a thing or two about it.

Thoughts ↓↓↓

Excuse me, I want my life back.

OHKAY. So I have a problem.

I've been seriously behind on the times and just discovered Gossip Girl last year, maybe the year before that... time escapes me. So when I finally finished a few weeks ago I was a little heartbroken. But never fear, Netflix kindly suggested that I check out Pretty Little Liars. And I am hooked.

A D D I C T E D.

This is bad ya'll. Like, typing this is taking forever because I'm currently watching.
I called out of work once, convincing myself I didn't feel well, but secretly I think my brain just wanted to watch Pretty Little Liars.
My dog is judging me right now.
Judgmental panda. so hard.

I guess the upside of no longer being a student is that my homework after work every night, is just to catch up on tv shows.

I'm typically more of a book fiend, so as soon as I recover from pretty-little-liars-itis, I will post some good reads. Anyone got anything for the PLL fever?

ciao,
Anaïs

Hello world.

You know when you get an idea in your head, and it cycles through your thoughts until you get the chance to work on it?

That was my day today. Somewhere between brunch and walking at the park, I decided to start a blog. I've tried to keep a journal countless times and always give up after a couple of entries. This time I thought I'd give the interwebs a try... Soooe here am I.

Girl, meet blogging. Blogging, meet girl.

My story: After I graduated college, I decided to take a leap and move to a different state. A new city away from everybody I knew, my friends, my family, my comfort zone-- adíos. I thought it would be a good chance to reinvent myself. Not that there was anything wrong with my former-different-state-self, but I wanted to move away from the girl everyone knew, away from the parties, the small town feel where I couldn't go anywhere without seeing someone I knew.

So this will be my new story, you'll get to follow me as I struggle at being a 20-something year old trying to be a big girl in a new city. A new career, friends, love, diets, clothes, makeup, puppydogs.... Bring it on world.

Ciao,
Anaïs