It's Breakfast...Somewhere

Breakfast is my favorite meal of the day, there's something so refreshing about it. I think it's because a morning always signifies a fresh start and I just love that. No better way to get over some disappointments from the previous day than with a big bowl of oats, perfectly chilled yogurt or a nice stack of hotcakes! With all that said I am absolutely drooling over every breakfast food post over at the blog KATH EATS REAL FOOD. Go there...NOW! You won't be disappointed, well unless you can't properly replicate all of her dishes, then it is perfectly acceptable to cry, I am :(

Hey Kath, can you cook for me all the time??

Home-Work

One of the benefits of working from home is comfort. I can wake up, head to the gym, eat and prepare a well-balanced meal and sit in comfortable clothes all day--which is why I have been slacking in the OOTD posts recently. To be honest, I've become obsessed with food blogs! O-B-S-E-S-S-E-D! I can't get enough of the pictures of melty, mouth-watering HEALTHY concoctions, and now I just love posting my own attempts (key word being attempts).
For breakfast today I put another spin on my oatmeal:

1 serving size oats // 1/2 cup blueberries // 1/4 banana (cut) // 1 spoonful of chunky peanut butter // 1 spoonful of grape jelly // tons of cinnamon

Ohhh so delicious!

I found the secret: microwaving my oats, then adding about 1/4 c. of blueberries in, mixing it around, microwaving for another minute then adding everything else in. The result was like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich...brought out the little kid in me :)

Today will be filled with work, heading to Whole Foods to buy Xantham Gum (to make my smoothies THICK! Inspired by Julie GoLean and Peanut Butter Fingers). Weirdly enough, Trader Joe's doesn't carry it. Oh and check out this video for a really great laugh- Happy Monday! 

Makeover

This post comes out of desperation, a need to just get my thoughts out of my head. Ever since I graduated in May I have been feeling pretty BLEH? BLAH? BLALALA? Just off. (Any other college grads feel this way?) Despite trying to maintain a positive and cheery outlook on everything I have realized something, why am I not being me? Candidly Cassie was supposed to be a place where I can unleash all my thoughts, but it slowly became just something about fashion, style, and clothes...well not for long. I want to write about everything that interests me--fashion being one thing, but also fitness and food; I want to start cooking and baking, doing DIY projects and reporting on various trips I take. I don't want to feel bogged down by something (blogging) that usually made me happy. I think I have kept in a lot of things that I wanted to say for fear of losing readers or being misunderstood. I just want to blog honestly and openly. I want to say how I feel about things and I want people to read my thoughts and let me know that I'm not alone because that is what blogging has taught me over the past few months...I am not alone.
So on a lighter note (I'm trying to work on this whole happiness thing) I am leaving you all with a picture of my breakfast:

Cereal mix: Kashi Honey Sunshine & Cinnamon Puffins // Yogurt: Dannon Light & Fit Raspberry // 1 Granny Smith Apple // Blueberries & Strawberries // Tons of Cinnamon

Here's to a lot more being seen on Candidly Cassie :)