I'm still here

Usually I do unannounced blogging breaks. This time I wanted it to be different so I just wanted to let everyone know I'm still here! I just will not be blogging as much this week due to friends in town & Miami. I will explain more in later posts :)

Miss you all!

Lunch eats & Healthy Probiotic Chocolate!

Is everyone excited it is almost the weekend? I sure am!

I have fun things planned this weekend including a hair apartment, Austin rodeo depending on the weather and a spring cleaning of both my apartment and car okay so those are not so fun.


Lunch was leftovers somewhat. I brought Amy's Southwestern Soup and I had a left over wrap and cupcake from yesterday's St. Patrick's Day party.





The cupcake was nice little sweet snack! I have a healthy sweet snack for you..

Now we have all heard that dark chocolate can be good for you. Have you heard about Probiotic Chocolate?

Attune sent me 3 bars to review.



These bars contain 80-90 calories and probiotics strands. They are also great sources of calcium.

My favorite flavor was mint.



I will be purchasing more of the bars and can feel better about my mid-day chocolate snack attack!

My name is Irish you know!

While it is true my name Erin means "Ireland & Peace" and my dad may or may not look like a giant leprechaun, regardless of my Irish heritage I get excited about any holiday celebration!

Today at work we had a party! We took our lunch time to sit around eat green food and watch an old Christmas episode of "The Office" not really on theme but was fun times!




After all those treats I knew I had to get to the gym tonight! I did speed walking intervals on a machine that looks like a treadmill but the the roller was grooved so it is less harsh on the body and good for my hamstring!


To replenish after my work out, keep with St. Patrick's Day I had a Green Machine Smoothie. It contained Veggie Protein, Yogurt Pineapple Juice, Pineapple & Banana. I plan to recreate this at home using Amazing Grass packets as my "Veggie Protein"



For those who asked about my grandmother sorry I forgot to update. Thank you for all your prayers! She is out of the hospital and doing very well. Her kidney has stopped bleeding as it turns out her kidney just has a cyst on it which they can't treat unless it bust. Then she will be put on antibiotics no biggie. Her heart valve that was leaking is miraculously fine!!! Her other valve is just a little constricted so they are changing her beta blocker and putting her on a fluid pill. She should be back to to completely normal in no time. After basically a month in the hospital it truly is a miracle and the doctors are still confused as to how her heart and kidney both took turns for the best!!

Time for bed now my company's brand new CEO/President will be in the office tomorrow & Friday to meet us all. This also means I will be going in to work early/staying late and ceasing all blogging and twittering while at work. Gulp.

Citizen Cope & A Rooftop Party

Hello Readers! Hope everyone had a fabulous weekend! I sure did!

To start off the SXSW celeberation going on here in Austin, David & I attended a Citizen Cope concert.



The opening act was Gin Wigmore. She was from New Zealand it was her first time playing in America. She had a really soulful voice. I enjoyed her.



And of course Citizen Cope was amazing as usual. I saw him at Austin City Limits this past October. I was really excited to see that he was coming to Austin again so I bought tickets as soon as I found out. Good thing I did the show was Sold Out!



Saturday night there was a party at Lanai, a very cool rooftop lounge, to honor our friends that are getting married next month. The theme was Stock The Bar everyone invited brought a bottle of their favorite beverage to stock the couple's bar :)



This is only a small group shot there was around 30 of us there in our group the groom being honored is not even in this photo.

I had a blast! I knew a few of the girls there but also met some pretty amazing ladies that I really fit in with here in Austin. Hopefully we will all get a chance to hang out again soon!






My old computer had an awesome photo editing program. I'm not happy with my picture quality I have now. I will be purchasing Adobe Photoshop Elements soon to get the most out of my pictures. I saw it at Best Buy for only 99.00!


Tonight I headed back to the gym, I previously tore my hamstring running on the treadmil. This is the first time in my life I ever had an injury from working out. It was painful. I totally blame the treadmil!!! I have to take 4-6 weeks off running. So tonight I did the elliptical, light weight lifting and maybe a nice slow cool down walk on the treadmil. I don't think I will ever run on one again.
I am just excited to get back into any type of exercise even if I have to take it slow at first!

Oikos Winner

Thank you to those who emailed me about my last post, you readers are too sweet!!

My grandmother is still in the hospital, they have found a spot on her kidney which the believe the blood is originating from. We are now waiting on the next step from the doctors.

The long awaited Oikos winner giveaway winner is:



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Congrats to CME from Fun With The Super Munns

Please send your mailing address to texancouture@gmail.com so I can forward your information to Oikos so that you may recieve your prize!

I have one more giveaway next week, with your regular blog posts coming soon!