This morning I awoke with a headache… or a “head-ah-cha-cha,” as Ryan and I say. (Any other Everybody Loves Raymond fans out there?)
I don’t typically get headaches, so I wasn’t really sure how to approach my morning workout. My body felt fine, but my head just wasn’t right.
I walked to the gym with Ryan, saying I’d take it a bit easy on the cardio this morning. I completed 20 minutes on the treadmill (10 minutes of incline walking, 10 minutes of jogging) before rounding out my cardio with 10 minutes of light cardio on the elliptical.
Since my headache was still lingering, I decided to head upstairs and take a yoga class. Calming stretches and methodic breathing sounded perfect. And it was.
I emerged from the yoga class feeling much better. My headache dissipated for the most part and I was ready to tackle the day.
Or, you know, a 40-minute walk with this monster:
We walked around the lake near our apartment before heading home to gossip about The Bachelorette on the PBF Facebook page make breakfast.
Breakfast
Oddly enough, my taste buds were pining for something savory this morning. As a full-fledged sweets lover, I typically prefer to start my day on a sweet note with smoothies, yogurt bowls or chocolate overnight oats.
Today, however, I wanted last night’s dinner!
I took a leftover salmon burger and served it atop a toasted onion bagel with an egg white.
Enjoyed with a hot mug of coffee and a fresh nectarine, this breakfast was on point!
Random Thought
Just a random thought I had this morning that I have to get off my chest before signing off for the morning…
How come you never see a rogue eyebrow hair in its intermediary stage? It’s like it grows into a beast overnight! How does this happen?
Feel free to share an obscure thought you’ve had today in the comments section of this post. I love getting a little random up in here!
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We love Everybody Loves Raymond here! We own five seasons on DVD!
Obscure thought #1:
Does the bachelorette think it’s in good fashion to wear ONESIES?!
Obscure thought #2:
Where can I buy one? (JOKE!)
LOLLLL.
Good for you curing your headache with exercise! I feel like I’d take a headache as an excuse for a day off, but kudos to you for killing it with activity. Definitely inspirational 🙂
that breakfast sounds so good! Perfect for satisfying a salt craving, I think! What brand bagel is that?
bahah love the random thought! So true though! Those little suckers just pop out from nowhere! Breakfast looks scrumptious!!
haha so true about eyebrow hairs. Or sometimes I get mysterious hairs that grow like a 1/2 inch below my hair line on my forehead that appear overnight!? That sounds gross, but they’re very fine, almost white, not like a typical piece of hair on your head.
Ohhhh LOVE that show 😀 I miss watching it, I need to do that soon. Stress relief in a tv show 😉
Glad you feel better – sometimes a little yoga and Sadie lovin’ is all you need. 🙂
I loved the Bachelorette last night. I’m really starting to like her but the whole Bentley thing is bothersome. I feel so bad for her because I’ve been there. Why do us girls like the bad boys? I tell ya!
Glad your headache is gone.
My random thought? Last night in spinning, I tried to think of motivation to make me spin faster. First I thought about this date I’m going on with a guy I like, but that didn’t work. Then I thought about this bad boy “Bentley” type who makes me angry and I spun my little legs off. Why does anger fuel me so much?? I don’t know but anyway, I’m glad that bad boy helped me have a more productive spinning class. At least he’s good for something 😉
use him for all he’s worth, jamie! 🙂
gah sorry about ur headache!! perhaps its the weather? that happens to me a LOT!!! nice workout! i need to do yoga this weeek!!!…ahhah wait huh about the eyebrow hair? i see it in the intermediate stage aLL the time!
I love everybody loves raymond. My favorite episode is the one where Raymond brings home PMS pills for Deborah. So so funy!
HAHAHAAH! I love the eyebrow comment! It’s so true as well – one day you think your brows are looking fine, and the next, there’s one big glaring hair out of place!
I’m glad your head is feeling better. Sometimes I wake up with a headache but usually getting my workout over with helps to get rid of it. Must be all that oxygen flowing to my brain!
The eyebrow comment is oh so true haha
My thought for the day (along the same lines as yours) how can you go to bed with a clear complexion, and then wake up the next morning with not one, but TWO honkin zits on your cheek?!
Gross man.
Haha I have noticed this about one eyebrow hair in particular that just seems to have came up out of nowhere!
Random thought: Why do some people say “excuse me” in such a catty way that it defeats the whole purpose of saying “excuse me” in the first place?! Ugggh I hate that! Haha
that’s when you kick them in the face and then say “oh my gosh! i didn’t SEE you there!”
WINNING
I’m glad your headache is feeling better! I hate getting them when you first wake up in the morning. So annoying!
My random thought of the day is why does Ashley on the Bachelorette keep talking about Bentley like they had some long term love affair?! They didn’t even have a one on one date. I don’t understand why she acts like they were exclusively dating for such a long time! I can’t stand hearing about him. Show more of JP! 🙂
YES. YES. YES. move on, girlfriend. move on.
Savory breakfasts are my fav!!
Sometimes I can see little growing eyebrows underneath my arch, but you’re right, those little buggers grow fast!
I know seriously… I feel like they are undercontrol and then I just wake up one morning and I have man eye -brows…. what is up with that?! Some months they take forever before I need to get them waxed again and other months they grow non-stop…. its ridiculous!!
Haha I cant wait to watch last nights Bachelorette tonight… i love DVR!
YES! I remember this from Everybody Loves Raymond! I’ve been watching reruns of that show like crazy lately. So funny! 🙂
Killer Tuesday breakfast! Don’t even get me started on facial hair growth- story of my life!
Sorry about the headache. I don’t usually get them either – unless I’m a passenger in the car.
Why is my non-violent hubby obsessed with Black Ops video game? My random thought.
Sadie is too cute in that picture. She’s like “come on Mom!!”.
I feel the same way about blemishes btw. I swear, you wake up and boom! I’m like “where the heck did you come from?”
Obscure thought of this morning: What were flavor developers thinking when they came up with the flavor of “grape” candy or gum? Because, having just had a piece of grape taffy, and comparing it to an actual grape, I am pretty sure they must have gotten their inspiration elsewhere….
OMG!! Yes! Same with pretty much any fruit flavor, but grape especially. The only flavors ever on point are coconut and green apple.
I love the Bachlorette discussions on the FB Page. I am so clueless as to what the hell Ashley is thinking. I am so baffled by her strong attachment to Bently. He’s not cute, according to my husband he’s a douche! ha! JP rules. Even Keith likes JP best! C’mon girl…wake up!
Why are sweet potatoes and turnips so good to make fries with but yet are made impossible to cut?
Why is JP so darling and cute?
Why is it impossible for me to stay awake when working from home?
Just some thoughts haha… can you tell I’m procrastinating too? lol
Go JP! He’s my favorite.
I loooove sweet potato fries but hate cutting them. Even my strong husband has trouble, and we use a mandolin slicer.
Haha isn’t he adorable?! Oooo I might have to look into getting one of those 🙂
I made your salmon burgers for lunch ( Although I adapted them a little bit because I didn’t have all the ingredients) and they were awesome! I also have a headache when I wake up sometimes and a yoga class is always the perfect solution.. 🙂
Yoga is the ultimate cure for just about everything! I’m glad you got a good class in this morning– what a perfect way to start the day (and summer!) And as far as eyebrows go… WTF!?! If the hair on my head grew at the rate of eyebrow hair, I’d be Rapunzel. Just sayin’
Random thought – Do you ever hear people complain over & over again about their weight and then you see them ALWAYS eating unhealthy foods and you feel it’s inappropriate to say anything?
And girlfriend needs to get over Bentley ASAP. There are way cuter/sweeter guys on the show. I have a crush on Blake 🙂
Eyebrow hairs gone rogue are the WORST! But it’s even worse when you notice it in the middle of the day, when you’ve already been at work and talked to people. Aghhhh.
I hate the weird eyebrow hairs that appear out of nowhere. And Bentley…seriously…so sick of hearing about him. I hate that he is going to be on the next episode. Why can’t they just tell her already all the stuff he said about her?
Randomness..hmm…inspired by your love of 90s music (which I share…we’re the same age), I tried out Pandora’s 90s Pop station yesterday and it is AWESOME!! I made it through a fairly speedy 5k (in the 94 degree heat, ugh, at 8 pm!) thanks to Salt n Pepa, the Cranberries, Spice Girls, Coolio, Sister Hazel, and more. Definitely check it out for your next workout or work day. 🙂
Love your breakfast- sounds really good & filling! You are always so creative with leftovers, totally wish I had your leftover skills 😉 I’m always so boring..and never eat them- I leave ’em for the hubby 🙂
& OMG- YES, eyebrows always do that. I’m like what the heck?! One day they are fine & then the next I’m like ‘whoa there buddy..how about some tweezers?!’ LOL!
Haha I go from perfectly tweezed eyebrows to cavewoman overnight. It sucks!
The randomness that was stuck in my head yesterday was why, if a baseball cap has a football team or hockey team’s logo on it, is it still called a baseball cap? Why wouldnt it be a football cap or a hockey cap? I got very irritated over that, even though its super stupid!
Haha I never ever thought about the whole baseball hat thing but you’re SO right!!
Hahaha your question made me laugh! I have no idea!! I can’t answer it for you. I wish I knew, but eyebrows are a science on their own. Let me know if you find the answer (to that or the meaning of life…either or)!!
i love that on everybody loves raymond! thats one of my favorite…head-ach-e…haha so funny
Dinna fo breakfast is the best! ahh everybody loves Raymond…the memories there. I have rando thoughts all the time, especially when working out 🙂
Oh my gosh, never thought that about eyebrows, but it’s so funnily-true.
Most of my random thoughts come when on airplanes, about how airplanes work. No one really wants to know why the tracking system suddenly goes off in the middle of the atlantic!
so true about the eyebrows – I have 9 – 4 on the left and 5 on the right. I got to bed looking normal and wake up like OMFG how did this happen? And must pluck immediately. Crazy!
Great workouts – so glad your headache left you!
Waking up with headaches is the worst. I usually just use it as an excuse for extra coffee 😀 True story: my eyebrows grow so fast that EVERY SINGLE TIME I go to get them waxed (like every 2 weeks at times), they ask me “Dis your first tiiime?” TRUE STORY. I’m like no, I was here on the 13th, give me a break!
And my random thought: I was sitting on my porch eating breakfast when I suddenly noticed that the nice porch across the way with the yellow flowers actually belonged to boys! I thought about how nice this was all through breakfast. Boys! with yellow flowers and a big dog!
I know exactly what you mean about the eyebrow hairs…they’re crazy how they pop up overnight!
Ha! The eyebrow thing is SO true! It’s like they go undercover and then just spring up at the most inopportune moment.
My random thought: why do radio stations seemingly play commercials at the exact same time? Sigh. I miss my satellite radio already.
Yoga always helps me with headaches and other aches in general… glad it works for you too!
That breakfast looks amazing… I really need to try out your salmon burger recipe. They looks amazing!!!
ahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha I was just whining the other day of having a stom-ah-cha-cha. Totally one of my fave lines from Everybody Loves Raymond!!
My random thought for the day is – WHY do people think its ok to clip their finger and toenails in the office?! The sound is unmistakable. When I hear it I cringe and think “wow, you couldn’t set aside 2 minutes at home to do that?”
Ah I feel much better now. Happy Summer!
I love me some Everybody Loves Raymond… I bought my dad all the seasons last year for Father’s Day!
You are MUCH better than me when it comes to exercising with headaches… I usually pop some excedrin in, watch bachelorette reruns, and rock myself back and forth in the fetal position til it goes away. 😉
What I don’t understand is that some people at work have made a huge stink about getting a window office but they keep the blinds shut all day long. Walking by their offices make me depressed at how dark it is in there. Why have a window???
Randomness… Why do I like have breakfast for dinner way more then I do dinner for breakfast?
I’m the queen of rogue eyebrow hair. Why do we even have it at all?
Random thought of the day — I can’t believe it’s been summer since April and it’s just now REALLY summer.
Hope your headache gets better and doesn’t come back!!!! 😀
Random thought:
Never, ever put biofreeze (or any cold muscle soreness gel) on before trying to sleep w/ the air conditioner and a fan on……..its painful!
Haha! Hilarious!
Your breakfast looks so so good! I’m going to try cooking my next salmon burger on a skillet… they fell apart when I attempted to make them on the grill ::epic fail::
Random – why does my hair/makeup look nothing like it did before I left for work?
I love savory b-fasts.
Random : why do people look they want to die while helping customers?! Be nice, people!
You can spot the rogue eyebrow hairs in their beginning stages if you have a REALLY powerful mirror. My mother has one we call the Mirror of Shame because you see EVERY flaw, even ones that aren’t clear to the naked eye.
There is a setback to this method: there’s a beginning stage where you can see the hair growing in but it’s still to short to do anything about, much as you may try. It’s like the Mirror of Shame is tricking you and throwing the inevitability of rogue eyebrow hairs in your face. The Mirror is a crafty minx.
I totally agree with the fast-growing rogue eyebrow hairs! From a beauty perspective, it’s super annoying, but I guess from a practical perspective, at least they are protecting our eyes! 🙂