New Family Members!

... The Express family, that is.

Today we opened our office to a couple who will be the newest members of the Cincitucky Express family [Cincinnati + N.KY]. They'll be taking over a territory that was vacated by another owner a year or so back; today we welcomed them to our office to conduct interviews for their first staffing consultant.

welcome to the express fam!

Quick rewind to this morning... just really quick:

ohio.

^ Ohhhhhio, STOP IT!
Yeah, that's snow. Yeah, it was like, I dunno, almost 60 yesterday? Yeah, it's April. I know I'm not alone in wishing this crap would just..... go..... away. *Sigh. Mother Nature- 1, Ohioans Wishing for Warm Weather - 0.

Anyway, we lightened the drab start with the new owners; that's a special occasion for us, which also means food. If there's one unspoken Express standard, it's the provision of food at everything that could be considered a gathering. Shoot, we have office lunches here every single Friday. Today it was Chris bringing donuts, a pot of coffee to go around, and a bowl of greek yogurt+berries+honey. Nom, nom freakin' nom!


beauty in a bite!

After work, it was off to start my Easter preparation. That meant a trip to the dollar store to pick up a collection of plastic eggs, miscellaneous little trinkets and toys to fill them, some last-minute things for Syd's Easter basket and a few other things. I may have gone slightly overboard this year, but hey... that's the fun part!

Happy Tuesday, friends!

xo | cmd

And Then, It Was EMPTY!

I've been so focused on arranging and preparing the new house, that I've neglected any specific updates on the old digs. Welllll... 

then & now..
cleaaaaaaaaan & clear!

The main room at my old house feels so much bigger without anything in it, which I realize is generally the case with any room. I don't care though; I finally cleared out the last photo frame nail from the wall and have officially cleared out all signs of inhabitance from the back half of the old house. Save for our temporary sleep set up, "WE GONE!" [yiiiiieee!]

And, on an entirely unrelated note, I'm also declaring publicly today my affection and affinity for continued healthy eating. This little shoutout is really more for myself than any audience, but a little public posting never hurts when I'm trying to keep myself accountable.. 


greek yogurt + honey + blueberries
who says office life has to be all junk food!?

... I'm bent, folks, on a healthy 2014.

Right now, I'm more excited to [almost] be down to one house, instead of split between two. Home stretch!!!

xo | cmd

Feed. Me.

running ... ♥

Today was the first time in a couple of weeks that I managed a distance run. Well, let me take that back: I wouldn't call it a distance run, really, because it was only 4.5 miles, but it's more than I've done in a couple of weeks in one outing, and as little as it seemed, I definitely walked away with some light runner's high.

Which reminded me how blessed and fortunate I am to be one of the many of us with access to both the knowledge of and resources to obtain some of the stuff I've been devouring lately.

I'll start with this morning:

BAM! Four of my favorite things: Baby mason jars, greek yogurt, honey & fresh berries!

i am all over this breakfast.

I didn't do half bad with the rest of the day either. My resolve, for either this week or early next week, is to take my packed-lunch to a new level and get the avocados involved. It's not everyone's taste, but I love avocados and when paired with tuna and some peppers, it literally makes me salivate. 

this makes me drool.. ahhhh

^ I'm not even hungry as I write this but if you were to hand me one of these, I'd absolutely finish every last bite. Nom nom nom....

And lastly, on my list of ÜBER easy and healthy little munchers [thanks, Mom, for your relentless insisting that I eat and be healthy as a kid!].. kale chips! I downed almost a half tray of these daily for a few days before my last blood drive, just to be on the safe side with my iron levels. It takes nothing at all to make these if you time it just right, like my mom does, they get crisp enough to pretty much melt in your mouth.

crunchy, salt-free spice, baked .. perfection.

Also, thanks to my fit-finesse cousin Jamie, I'm extra inspired to start on a warpath of healthy recipes for some daily variation while I'm at work [because let's be honest, a salad every single day, even for the healthiest of healthgoons, is annoying]:

& of course, a bottle of wine ;) haha.. love her.

So theeeeere ya have it..
I need an accountability partner. Haha.
Target: TM2014. Haha. I'll keep ya posted!

xo | cmd