Good morning, blog world!
I am currently reporting to you like this:
What am I doing? I am “typing” — hands-free! Last week, when I realized that I really couldn’t type for a while, I ordered MacSpeech Dictate, a voice activation software. I have never seen anything like this. It is amazing! Very accurate, very easy to use, and will make my recovery much faster. I am actually going on vacation starting this weekend, so that will help to. But I have so much typing to do at work that I couldn’t go two weeks without typing.
This software is totally worth it for anyone who has wrist, arm, or nerve problems. What is also very cool about it is that you can make multiple profiles, so that, for example, Loren could also use this program because it would learn to recognize his voice separately. He has a bad wrist ( I know, we are both old people) so this is great for him to! You can also find great programs for PC’s (they are actually rated even higher by most review sites).
Anyways, onto yesterday’s eats. After a 35 minute workout on the elliptical at the gym, I came home and made a big bowl of oats sans pumpkin, but with banana, almond milk, and topped with some homemade apple butter.
I also stopped at Starbucks for my usual: a skim awake tea latte with one pump of pumpkin syrup. The oatmeal was very good- I always feel so healthy starting my day off with oatmeal.
Lunch was packed at home, as usual. I made a turkey bologna sandwich and packed lots of fruits and veggies to go with.
If I use half a banana at breakfast, I tried to eat the rest of it for snack that day. That way, I don’t feel that I am being wasteful, but I also don’t eat it all at once. In addition to the snacks above, I also had a small cooked chile, given to me by a student. I think it was stuffed with veggies and shredded chicken. These ladies know how to cook!
I tried to be creative for dinner… eh, it didn’t go so well. I mean, I ate it, but I would change a few things that I made it again. Basically, I try to make a kind of “Mexican casserole”, layering corn tortillas, beans, and veggies. We had just bought some fresh veggies and I was trying to incorporate them into the meal- but I think I try to incorporate too many.
For example, broccoli. Bad idea.
Here is the finished product:
I just doctored up my piece and Loren’s with avocado, yogurt, cheese, and hot sauce. It was actually pretty good once I took the broccoli off my plate!
For dessert, I had a mini ice cream cookie sandwich from Trader Joe’s.
Can’t believe I “typed” that whole post while talking to my computer. You can just picture me sitting in my kitchen, talking to my little Mac- that should make you laugh!
Looks hot! 🙂
Glad that you still get to post even without using your hands. So fabulous! I would have really really missed your posts otherwise.
Such amazing eats (as usual, I kind of keep repeating myself – you must get bored of my comments!). I often encounter that banana problem but then I eat the entire thing ;).
Your dinner looks so pretty, too bad that it didn’t turn out that great…
I never get bored of your comments~! I always love them!
SO cool. I can’t believe that software works so accurately. Now you’ve got me craving Starbucks!
Wowsers! You’re going all hardcore with the headset! Really glad you were able to find something that helped out though.
Hopefully PT goes well and you start typing soon!
mmm that dinner looks HOT! Yummmm girl, i didn’t try your concoction but it doesn’t look like i’d want to change a thing…so veggieful and heaty looking! Yum!
Sorry that casserole didn’t work out because it actually looks delish!! Hopefully with a few tweaks it can be all you dreamed of :O)
– Beth @ http://www.DiningAndDishing.com
Oooh, how high tech! That’s really interesting.
That casserole looks delicious (broccoli and all). I definitely try to incorporate too many different elements into some of my meals too. Sometimes it works out splendidly…other times, not so much 🙂
What was it about the broccoli you didn’t like in the dish? I saw the broccoli and though oh yum!
How awesome that you get to blog handsfree… I like that 🙂
I’m not sure why… the roasted broc flavor just didn’t go with the Mexican flavors as well as I would have liked…. maybe I have a weird palate. I normally like broccoli a lot!
That’s a handy piece of equipment and would probably stop typists from getting repetitive strain injury.
Your dinner looks absolutely amazing and the addition of avocado inspired.
Very cool – I didn’t even know that was possible!! Love it!
your new toy sounds cool! i should get something like that for my uncle, who has carpel tunnel
Interesting casserole, sounds good. I am going to give that a try!
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