What I love most about my job is the flexibility. I sometimes work nights (and every weekend!) in exchange for weekdays free time on the weekdays. Last night I felt like charging through my list, so I stayed up late writing BERF posts and doing a few extra things on the blog side of business. Feels so good to wake up and have them off my list for the morning!
I ended up waking up at 6:15 when Matt got up and couldn’t go back to sleep. Lots of time to make some hot oatmeal!
I made a bowl with everything inside: Coach’s Oats, milk, peach, blueberries, chia seeds, vanilla, cottage cheese, sunflower butter.
MY OTHER RECIPES
Iced coffee to balance the hot
The only negative to working ahead: now the less desirable tasks move to the forefront : )
FlexIbikity is sooooo awesome! It’s a great thing to have!
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I had oats for breakfast and am completely sweating now! I guess I needed some iced coffee to cool me down a bit! 🙂
I had hot oats this morning for breakfast too. So weird, considering it was already 83 outside! I added an entire egg, for the first time as an experiment, to the banana/oat mix this morning and it created a CUSTARD like texture. So creamy & good topped with cinnamon, vanilla, and nut butter swirls. 🙂 Have a fab Tuesday!
When/how do you add the egg? I’d like to try this, but I don’t want to end up with weird chunks of egg in my oatmeal.
i agree! when was the egg added??
I have added egg whites to my oatmeal. I cook my oats in the microwave first and then put them in a small pot with the egg whites and stir constantly for a couple of minutes. Doing it that way, you don’t get any pieces of actual cooked egg and they come out really fluffy. I tried it once in the microwave but had to keep opening it up and stirring every couple of seconds and I still had some cooked egg pieces in there. I thought it was easier in the pot.
Your breakfast posts always help me decide what I want for breakfast… Looks like I am having oats today! 😉
I love when those productive evening moods hit! I’m definitely more of a morning person and am usually useless at getting ANYTHING done in the evenings, so when the mood strikes, I definitely take full advantage. Glad you did too, and good luck with your to-do’s today! 🙂
Well you’ve motivated me to get off my proverbial butt and get some tasks done now 😉
So many good flavors in that bowl! 🙂
The fact that my job is flexible is my favorite thing about it! Not that I wouldn’t love it anyway… but it makes life SO much easier!
I woke up late, decided to work from home, and still was able to have a big bowl of paleo (oat-less) oats.
Wish I had more of that flexibility!
I finally got around to trying cottage cheese in my oats. For me, it was fine, but not amazing. I splurged on some nice cottage cheese, and I’d just as soon enjoy it plain — it kind of got lost in the oats.
Love ticking things off my to do list 🙂
I’m still trying to wrap my brain around cottage cheese in oats. 🙂
Glad you had a productive streak so you can hopefully relax a bit.
I finally made coffee concentrate with my Trager Bros. decaf, and it is SO GOOD! I like the taste from the cold brew method better than last week’s traditional hot brew method. The 2/3 cup coffe to 3 cups water method left overnight in the French Press was perfect 🙂
how much are you diluting it?
50/50 coffee and water plus a splash of milk
I love the feeling of being able to cross To-Do’s off my list!
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Ohh to have a flexible job. I’m looking for a new one right now and flexibility would be wonderful. I’m a procrastinator though so I always wonder how I would do on my own schedule :). So many flavors in your oatmeal, I would never think to put all of that in there! I need to get more creative with my oats…
My son and I enjoyed a bowl of hot oatmeal this morning…we love our oatmeal!
I have a never ending to-do list. It seems as though the less desirabe things stay on there. I need the motivation to get them off the list, once and for all!
I definitely envy your job schedule! You are your own boss, so it’s up to you to get your work done when you can. I’m interning in a government law office right now and not a fan of this 9-5 at a desk thing, although they are even more flexible here than most places!
ooo I love blueberries in my oatmeal 🙂
i think it must be awesome to be able to form your own work schedule. my job is very rigid in terms of my hours & that is one thing i am working on making a change with!
You’re oatmeal looks great as always! Interesting choice to add some cottage cheese, I’ll have to try that next time. You’ve been making my mornings so yummy! Thanks 🙂
I have flexibility in my job too. LOVE it!!
I am THE MOST productive late at night when everyone else is sleeping – my hubs, child, the internet world – no one ‘needs’ me and it’s just me and my computer and editing, writing, or in the kitchen baking – I love the productivity!
My theory has always been to do the things you like the least first, then it seems easier after. Oatmeal looks yummy!
That is such a fluffy voluminous bowl of oats! It looks really tasty to me 🙂
I love all your cute little bowls.
I also love working from home, because it means you can shift things around a bit and have time off as and when. Makes things more flexible 🙂
Haha – I always do the more desirable tasks first too. In college I’d always save the papers and projects I dreaded the most for last. I work much better under pressure with things I’m not super interested in!
I so badly wish I had that type of flexibility with my work. You should write a post on how one turns their blog into a business 🙂
I definitely am most productive at night once everyone has gone to sleep, so I take that time to get ahead 🙂
Oh my, your oatmeal looks incredible! It is so creamy and healthy. I love everything you added to it, especially the fruit and peanut butter!!