Healthy Jam-Swirled Silver Dollar Pancakes

There are certain things about being home that I love, and don't love.  There's mostly good things, I promise though.  I love being able to cook in a fully equipped and fully stocked kitchen, I love being home for delicious home-cooked meals, driving my dad insane with my sister, and getting to take a break from the hustle and bustle of school and Manhattan (although after a couple of days, I do start to miss it pretty terribly...).  Being at home is great, but it does come with its downsides.  

Number 1- I never get any school work done, because baking, taking photos, and editing photos is time consuming, and just plain more interesting. 

Number 2- My eating schedule gets a little wonky.  You see, I like to wake up early and get my baking started literally the second I get up.  I can't be wasting precious moments of daylight, inspiration, and creativity on making myself an omelette (although it probably wouldn't hurt if I took ten minutes aside to make myself some breakfast), and then there's the inevitable necessity of sampling of my less-than-healthy (but delicious and hard to resist) food....  

Number 3- I get lazy about working out, which is a problem.  I love working out, and at school, I have no problem with fitting in 5-6 good workouts a week, but when I come home...that's a whole other story.  I just have a hard time getting myself to exercise on my own when I'm home for some inexplicable reason that is completely beyond me....ugh.

Breakfast Quinoa with Almonds and Mixed Berries

It's that time of year again when I write "ok, time for a short and easy post."  The time has come where I am beginning to get swamped with projects, papers, and other random work that somehow needs to get done.  If eating, exercise, and sleep can also be thrown into that mix and done at some point in my life, then I would think that I've done a pretty good job.  If not, then that's just life...sigh.  It's crazy to think that the semester is almost over, but it really is!  Classes end in two and a half weeks, and I'll be done with finals and back at home in exactly a month from today.  I can't wait!  But for right now, I'm going to have to get back to the present and finish writing this up, feeling super sleepy after my third legitimate all-nighter since Sunday, and feeling kind of hungry since I chose to sleep for a half hour instead of getting something for breakfast.   I wish I had some breakfast quinoa right about now...