Hello from a new year! Like I said in my last post, I am very excited to have welcomed ’14. We didn’t do anything exciting for NYE (we were in bed watching Vines by 11), but we started the year off right with a fun day on the 1st.
Resolutions, Past and Present
I didn’t set any resolutions last year, but since 2011 it’s been a yearly goal to read a book a month. I missed January and February, but overall I did pretty well with 20 books read in 2013:
March
Last to Die – Tess Gerritsen (f)
The Bone Bed – Patricia Cornwell (f)
June
97 Orchard – Jane Ziegelman (nf)
Spiced: A Pastry Chef’s True Stories of Trials by Fire, After-Hours Exploits, and What Really Goes on in the Kitchen – Dalia Jurgensen (m)
July
The Perfect Husband – Lisa Gardner (f)
The Third Victim – Lisa Gardner (f)
Alone – Lisa Gardner (f)
August
Hide – Lisa Gardner (f)
The Neighbor – Lisa Gardner (f)
The Next Accident – Lisa Gardner (f)
The Killing Hour – Lisa Gardner (f)
September
Fiction Ruined My Family – Jeanne Darst (m)
October
Live to Tell – Lisa Gardner (f)
Love You More – Lisa Gardner (f)
Catch Me – Lisa Gardner (f)
November
Bones of the Lost – Kathy Reichs (f)
December
Brain on Fire – Susannah Cahalan (m)
Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight – Alexandra Fuller (m)
Dust – Patricia Cornwell (f)
Wild – Cheryl Strayed (m)
This year I did decide to set a few new year’s goals for myself, though I won’t be typing them all out here. Basically I want to lose some of the weight I’ve been steadily putting on the past three years / continue my book reading goals / and start chipping away at the continuing education requirements for my Dietetics registration.
Fashion Friday
Last Friday.
Monday.
Tuesday.
A day off on Wednesday.
Welcoming in a new year at work on Thursday.
Breakfasts
Since part of this post is from last year you won’t really see this go into effect, but I think I am going to make more of an effort to eat breakfast on workdays. I’ve been getting insanely hungry every afternoon and I think running out of time for breakfast most mornings is partially to blame.
Giant non-fat latte with 2 shots each peppermint and white chocolate.
Coconut coffee and a pear.
The Vanilla Coco Cafe was delicious, even better than the original.
My pear was tasty too, but eating it gave me such bad heartburn that I almost got off of my train to throw up! I’m not sure what the deal with that was.
Lunches
I made a big batch of roasted veggies this week, enough to pack for three days of lunches. Butternut squash and green beans (and broccoli that I burned the crap out of so only 1-3 stalks ended up in each lunch). I stuck with the winning formula of veggies + a fruit + candy the whole week.
Monday.
Veggies with smoked almonds and Sriracha mayo. Plus tangerines and Chinese candy.
Tuesday.
Veggies with pistachios and champagne pear vinaigrette. Plus mint m&m’s and an Autumn Glory apple (<– they taste like cinnamon!).
Thursday.
Veggies with smoked almonds and bbq sauce. Plus gummies from Dylan’s and another cinnamon-y apple.
On Wednesday, Adam and I went into the city for lunch at Serendipity3.
The Christmas decorations were out of control, it was gorgeous in there.
We shared a frrrozen hot chocolate that was delightful.
I got my favorite sandwich for lunch, the Summer Bries – smoked turkey, sliced apples, melted brie and alfalfa sprouts, served on raisin pumpernickel with Russian dressing.
Yum! I shared about 50% of my sandwich with the husband, but it was ok because I stole some of his curry sauce to drizzle on my salad.
Snacks
I don’t have any pictures because I haven’t been bringing my camera to work, but let me just tell you – I’ve been eating so much freaking junk on the train! Like I said earlier, I am super hungry all afternoon, and I end up buying food the minute I escape the hospital. It is a bad bad habit.
Strawberry Champagne Polar to make work on NYE feel a little more festive.
Actual champagne. We drank Moet & Chandon on our honeymoon and now it feels extra special.
Numi Chocolate Pu-erh Tea with honey.
Plain Greek yogurt with blackberries and maple syrup.
Seltzer and a candy cane.
Gummi cola bottles (Adam bought me an array for our anniversary), eaten nightly this week while playing Sonic. <– best thing ever
Dessert hour with Adam at Cafe Dada.
We split a diplomat pastry,
and both had cafe cortados.
They use Blue Bottle Coffee as their espresso and it is divine.
Dinners
I don’t have pictures from Monday and Wednesday and without them I honestly can’t remember what I ate those nights. I ate a small serving of mac and cheese from Panera on NYE, but I’m sure I had something with it and I can’t remember what! When I used to blog every day I didn’t realize how much the act of picture-taking helped to cement the meals in my brain.
An easy favorite. Farro topped with smoked herring, sweet sesame seaweed, Sriracha, and a soft-boiled egg.
Black eyed peas for the new year. In a skillet I randomly tossed together – BEP, green pepper, plum tomato, green onion, turkey bacon, smoked paprika, green Tabasco, and plain Greek yogurt. On top of jasmine rice.
Leftover farro, stir-fried with peas.
I know I didn’t give a ton of dinner description, but I starting realizing just how long this post is!
Don’t forget to enter my Eggland’s Best giveaway.
{3} NOT the dog. Of course I always love the dog, he’s my little man, but lately I’ve been kind of hating him too. He takes anti-seizure medication twice a day, usually rolled up in a slice of pepperoni because that is quicker and less messy than making him a peanut butter spoon. This method has worked for months, but over the last week or so he has started eating the ‘roni and then spitting out the pill! Not good, not good at all.
{4} “Teddy Has an Operation.” A fellow surgeon introduced this video to Adam and it is fab-u-lous. I’ve been playing it on repeat between rounds of “Come to Me.” Don’t worry, Teddy.
Eating Chalk 