Eggstra Special

This is an extra-special post – it’s the first one I’ve managed to get up all week!

I had a giant presentation to give on Tuesday, an important quiz on Wednesday, and on Monday the dog had another series of 2 am seizures.  Yay.  <– sarcasm

Since the start of this rotation all of my classmates have reported getting to bed by/before 10pm but I’ve stubbornly, stupidly stayed up until at least 12.  I’d been doing ok, but my weeks of lost sleep and this week’s trifecta of late nights hit me hard on Wednesday.  I wandered around in a daze all day yesterday and then hurried home and got into bed at the record-breaking hour of: 7pm!  I got up for an hour or so around 9pm, but went back to bed for an amazing 10 hours total!!!

I felt much better today.  So of course I’m staying up late.  What can I say, I’m an idiot.

After that long introduction, let’s do this quickly…  Coffee at the hospital.

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Dark roast with french vanilla creamer.  The sweetened creamer is not a habit I want to get into, but while I’m somewhere without milk it is fun.

I had cafeteria pizza for lunch, but I didn’t think about taking a picture until after my plate was bare.  Whoops.

Plus candy.

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And when I got home I had this bowl of goodness.

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A serving of Liz Lemon Froyo, a Dannon Oikos Toasted Coconut Vanilla Greek Yogurt, sliced mango, and fresh blackberries.

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It was yumtastic.

For this evening’s fun, we dyed Easter eggs.

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Except that it wasn’t fun at all.

Because my “hard-boiled” eggs were raw.  And we were all hungry.

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But they were pretty, and Adam salvaged a few by breaking the partially cooked eggs into a skillet and making us dinner.

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We had fried eggs,

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with white toast with Earth Balance.

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And big salads – baby spinach, pink salt, cucumber, cherry tomatoes, feta cheese, and homemade maple vinaigrette (1 tsp sweet hot mustard, 2 Tbsp maple syrup, 2 Tbsp rice vinegar; shaken and split into two portions).

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With quinoa dark chocolate for dessert.

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Goodnight, Webster!

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I Forgot A Title Again!

It is problematically late, but tomorrow’s exhaustion will definitely be worth it.  I spent the first half of the day cuddling in bed with husband.  Literally, the first half.  It was fabulous.  Then we went to lunch and ran a few errands, and I spent the remainder of my day working on a giant project for my internship.  I am 100% finished with it, wahoo!

Brunch from Pano’s.

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Chicken slavaki wrap,

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with french fries.

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I ate half of each.  I’d been craving french fries like crazy but the sandwich wasn’t as exciting.  Not bad, but I’m just not that into chicken; the feta made it.

Iced coffee with Silk Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Milk and sugar.

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The coffee was salted caramel flavored from Wegmans and it was yummy.  I have a little bit of my cup left and I’m looking forward to it for breakfast.

A giant bowl of Lays’ Chicken and Waffle Chips.

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This finalist flavor was pretty good; the flavor was definitely “chicken.”  Embarrassing sidenote – I was talking with Adam about the dog and I heard “I usually just shake my bag of chips at him,” come out of my mouth.  The juxtaposition of usually with my bag of chips may have been my come-to-Jesus moment about how fat I’m getting.

At least nibbling does help me focus on work; I am 80% more productive with food next to my laptop.  Final snack plate.

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Honeycrisp apple,

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with ~1/2 serving of Alter Ego Quinoa Dark Chocolate.

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The chocolate was fun.  I’m excited to have Adam try some because he adores quinoa.

Dinner was a bit of a failure.  I sautéed frozen carrots and Wegman’s Japanese Stir Fry mix with a packet of Naysoya Shirataki Fettuccine in canola oil, then tossed in a serving of my peanut sauce and let it get nice and crispy.

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Sauce was great.  Veggies were great.  “Noodles” were slimy and terrible.  I ate ~half then gave a bite to Adam who promptly spit his chewed-up mouthful back in my bowl.

It was bedtime two hours ago is time for bed!

…I am so tired I forgot to title this post originally

So I already told you guys the good news.  More on that later, I’m too tired right now to be excited.  I don’t know why I’ve been so exhausted lately – other than, you know, working really hard at my internship and continuing to get in bed after midnight even though up I’m at 6 – but this evening it hit me really hard.  I went to work all day, did a quick grocery trip, then had a major meltdown.  The husband is the kindest man on the planet and he ran out and got us calzones for a late dinner.  We are eating now (and watching “Chopped!”) and then I’m going to pour myself into bed.

Packed breakfast for work.  Cinnamon Apple GoGo Squeez.

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Coconut Chia Bar.  <– very nice, the coconut flavor was great

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Muller low-fat Greek yogurt with honeyed apricot.

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Lunch from the Co-op hot bar.  I was hurrying to photograph because I was on the floor at work and I did not get a good picture.

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A salad base – spinach and romaine with red pepper, cherry tomato, and maple vinaigrette – topped with corn relish and a jalopeño cheddar turkey burger.

Post-meltdown fuel.  We shared a buffalo chicken stromboli and a cheese calzone.

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Mmmmmn!  Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!

Me Eat Food

We are 36ish hours away from finding out where we are going to live for the next 5ish years, so clearly I can’t think about anything else.  I’m not even going to try to make this coherent.  Food good.  Me eat food.

I skipped breakfast and packed too light of a lunch and my poor planning for the first half of the day left me starving for the 2nd half.  Whoops.  At least my protein-light mid-day meal was tasty.  Leftover turkey egg cup filling (sautéed mushrooms with green onion and shredded cheese),

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which I topped with some sweet seaweed snack.

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It was a good combination.  Plus 70% dark chocolate.

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On a positive note – I aced my quiz.  101%!

I show you dinner first, since most of my food consumption was in snack form.

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Cheese tortellini (about 1.5 servings) with green pepper, Kerrygold Skellig cheese (a sweet cheddar), and Tarragon vinaigrette.

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Before dinner I had… A pear.

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Jalopeño poppers and bread and butter pickles,

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a handful of chips x2,

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and a slice of turkey.

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And after dinner I had more chips and cheese.

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I was going to have a cookie too but then I got distracted looking at apartments …. in 5 different cities.

Shades Of White

My 2nd day as a soon-to-be surgeon’s wife was good but busy.  I have a gigantic quiz tomorrow and we have to score at least a 90% on it to remain in our program.  <– yikes!

No breakfast again.  I do have some bars in my cabinet but the mornings are my busiest hours and I don’t remember to eat and even if I did I wouldn’t have the time.  Instead I just really enjoy my lunch.

On today’s menu – a (2 Tbsp of) chunky peanut butter and (2 slices of) turkey bacon sandwich (Thin).

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A green pear.

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And a package of seaweed snacks.

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I also grabbed a coffee.

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A mix of regular and decaf with hazelnut creamer.  I started adding a scoop of ice to my cups – after watching a classmate do it the other day and being impressed with her genius – and it makes my coffees so much more enjoyable.  I definitely prefer my “hot” beverages luke-warm.

In the afternoon I snacked on a scoop of 1% cottage cheese with half of a Liberte coconut yogurt and a sprinkle of shredded coconut.

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I realize the picture doesn’t really show any of that though; my camera doesn’t do shades of white.

<– Sidenote:  I’ve decided that my first foray into fiction is going to be a book titled 50 Shades of White, the pendulum swing from 50 Shades of Grey.  It will be 500 pages of a waspy couple having missionary-style sex and peeing with the door closed.  You’d read that, right?  😀

Other afternoon snacks included a handful of tortilla chips,

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and a stolen square of Adam’s Godiva Milk Chocolate Salted Caramel Bar.

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I wanted to snack after dinner too, but it’s better that I didn’t because I already ate enough today.  Sometimes nibbling helps me focus on studying but our pantry is looking ruff

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Don’t worry, our dinner was better than that joke.

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I had a handful of Terra Thai Basil Curry Vegetable Chips.

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A pile of roasted green beans.

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And 2 turkey egg cups.

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{Inspired by this recipe}  We put two slices of turkey inside each of our muffin tin cups / filled the bottoms of chopped sautéed mushrooms and green onions and shredded cheese / topped each cup with an egg / then baked for 30ish minutes in an oven preheated to 350 degrees.

I spent the rest of the evening cramming and I’ve got to get back to it.  Tomorrow’s quiz is on the macro- and micronutrient values for the serving sizes per food group for a diabetic and renal diet.  Lots and lots of numbers to know; we can’t all lay around on the job…!

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Almost Spring And Almost Celebrating

Today has been just fantastic, one of those days that reminds me how happy I am with my life.  I felt totally blessed.

First, lunch.  I was too busy for breakfast but I did have a nice noon-time meal.  Dannon Oikos Cafe Latte Greek Yogurt.  So smooth and creamy, and the flavor was better than any other coffee yogurt I’ve ever had.

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Cascadian Farm Crunchy Oats & Honey Granola Bar.

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GoGo Squeez Cinnamon Applesauce.

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’twas a good lunch.

But the news I got just before lunch was even better – Adam is going to be a surgeon!  Ok, so it wasn’t surprising news, but it was good to have things confirmed.  Today is the first half of Match Day and on Friday we’ll learn where (and if) we’re going to move.  So exciting!  I opened the e-mail and burst into tears, right there on the Neuro floor.  Apparently I’ve been a little bit stressed.  But I can’t stress enough, how proud I am of my husband!!!

I got home before him this afternoon so I got him a few congratulation gifts.

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I may have stolen a few bites.  2 dumplings,

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and 2 big bites of frosting.

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Yum!

And I got more good news this evening – my night class was canceled!  This meant I had free time to celebrate the real news with Adam.  The past two days have basically been Spring so we took a long walk up Elmwood, in sandals natch.

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My taste buds are even more ready for Spring than my feet.  We wanted to get take-out so we could go home and watch “The Nanny” and I had the hardest time choosing food because I had to have something fresh.  I couldn’t stand the thought of cheddar, popcorn or runny eggs, my usual favorites!

I ended up getting a green juice for our walk.

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And bringing a salad from Ashker’s home.

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I added banana peppers, tomatoes, and kalmata olives to the Roasted Turkey, Apple, Walnut Salad; which also came with spring mix, feta, craisins, and Vidalia onion dressing.  It was exactly what I’d been craving.

Dessert was something amazing.

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I’ve been stalking local freezers for weeks and I squealed with joy when I finally spotted Ben and Jerry’s Liz Lemon Greek Frozen Yogurt last night.

Three things you should know:

  1. I adore both lemon and lavender in dessert
  2. I have a legit problem with Ben and Jerry’s ice creams
  3. I recently decided that Liz Lemon is my spirit tv character

I had 1.5 servings and loved every bite.

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Buffalo people – I found my pint at the Elmwood Tops.

Have a great night!

Briefly

I’ll admit it – this rotation is exhausting!  I stayed in bed past noon.  Then went to Gramma Mora’s for lunch with a Groupon.

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“Seafood” nachos to start.  <– not good, at all.

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Cheese enchilada.

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A handful of chocolate pretzels.

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Caramel and cheddar popcorn mix with Adam during Oz.  <– movie was not good, at all.

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More Bluefin.  Spicy crunchy crab and tempura sweet potato.

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Don’t forget to turn forward your clocks!