Thanksgiving

This is the first time in a while that we have absolutely no Thanksgiving plans. My dad is in Africa for work, mom is headed to my aunt's house for her annual family Thanksgiving feast and my sister and her family are off to AZ.

I am pretty excited to have no plans, but now I am starting to wonder what we should do!

Do I cook at home, all the fixings, and invite a couple friends over? For some reason I am not feeling motivated about doing it all. I have cooked a full Thanksgiving dinner twice now, all by myself and it is tons of fun and always turns out great. But for some reason I am not feeling it this year... It sounds like a lot of $$ on groceries, lots of cooking, and cleaning.

I am sort of hoping we get adopted by friends. I have never really crashed anyone else's Thanksgiving. That could be fun to see how other people do it. Also I would love to spend a lot of time cooking 2 really good dishes or so. Then I can research recipes and get super creative. I make a mean sweet potato pie with ginger snap crust, and also love making different stuffings!

Decisions, decisions!
Either way, it will be nice to have no real holiday obligations, except hang out with my husband and relax!
What is your idea of a perfect Thanksgiving?

Breakfast

I really struggle with breakfast. First of all, I never, repeat never, have extra time in the morning. I am always jealous of the people who wake up early on a work day to sip coffee and read the paper. How do they have the motivation to jump out of bed on a workday with such enthusiasm?
Let me clarify, it's not that I am not a morning person. While I love my sleep, I often wake up at 5am to workout before work, but I am always scrambling to leave the house before 8.
I think I eat pretty healthfully, which adds to my dilemma because I won't just grab a scone or toaster strudel.. I am a cereal snob (most of it is junk), I try not to eat empty carbs in the morning, and I don't like to eat anything sweet in the morning because I never feel good. My ideal breakfast is an egg on sprouted toast, or in the summer I make a smoothie with protein powder (the only sugar is in the fruit). I just cant seem to find something that I continually like to eat, and most importantly get in the habit of making... I need help!
Here are some items I found to be a success for me (if I can plan ahead, or get my butt out of bed):

• Smoothie with banana, plain nonfat yogurt, frozen berries, protein powder, nuts, supplements. Not okay on snowy days like today!
• Kamut or Spelt flakes with almond milk, raisins and dried coconut. A quick option, like cereal, but gets old after a couple days of eating it.
• Egg on sprouted toast
• Egg scramble with veggies. I never have time for this, but sometimes get lucky an T makes it.
• Egg "taco" on a corn tortilla with vegetarian refried beans, a fried egg and spinach on top. Very tasty!
• Once I made these "quiche cups" but I made such a huge batch that by the end I was really grossed out and haven't made them since. Also I don't use egg substitute, it is a weird concept to me :)

What it sounds like is that I have plenty of breakfast options, I just need to plan ahead (for 5 minutes the night before) or wake up earlier. Seriously, why is this so difficult?

No one reads my blog (well my best friend, M, but that's it!), but if I had a bunch of followers, I would ask:
What is your "breakfast of champions" and how and when do you prepare it?!