Get a Haircut and Get a Real Job
I ate breakfast on the go this morning while I walked to volunteering.
Stoneyfield Farm Lowfat Strawberry Smoothie and a Cinnamon Raisin Gnu Bar. This was the perfect combination. I’ve tried every flavor of my Gnu Bar samples now, and cinnamon raisin is one of my favorites.
For lunch I hit up the hospital’s sandwich bar.
Jalopeno wrap with chicken salad, banana peppers, sun-dried tomatoes, pickles, spinach, and chipotle sauce.
I’ve been drinking a diet soda with lunch but it is a Pepsi place, and I hate Diet Pepsi, so it seemed a little silly. I don’t mind that I drink (a lot of) diet soda, even though many people think it’s too unhealthy, because I get so much enjoyment out of it, so a flavor I don’t like is hard to justify. Today I brought a Snapple-On-the-Go Diet Pink Lemonade packet that I bought on a whim the other day.
Delish! And it got me to drink a water with lunch, which I always should but never do.
Volunteering was a little busier, which was a nice change of pace. One lady said I was their best volunteer and it kind of made my day 🙂
On a similar note, I’m sure some of you are wondering why I don’t have a job. No, I am not planning on living off Adam’s loans. 80hours+ of volunteer service was a prereq for the programs I am applying to so that took priority until school starts. Next week when my class starts I will be moving to one (4hour) volunteering shift a week. I will also – fingers crossed – get a job then. I am hoping to substitute teach and get a waitressing job. However, I can’t apply for the restaurant job until I know the situation with substituting, and that won’t happen until after Labor Day. For now, I am enjoying the lack of responsibility and being proud of myself that I’ve saved enough money that it’s not a big deal.
My plan was to study after volunteering, but we got some sad news from back home and it kind of nixed my motivation. The husband is dying to see District-9, so I just might join him for a movie! I’ll let you know at dinner.
What’s the longest you’ve ever gone without working? I started a part-time job when I was 15 and have pretty much worked ever since. I waitressed through college and had two jobs I went back to at home over every break. The two years I taught were the only time in forever that I haven’t been waitressing, and I’m actually excited to get back to it.
Listed
This post is check off style, following my to-do list from the last post.
#2 – Feed my sourdough starter.
#3 – Eat some damn fruit. All this was blended into a tasty smoothie.
Er, uncheck.
My blender exploded. That was fun. So I drank the rest of my sample from Ooba, and ate a Farmer’s Market plum while I cooked.
#4 – Make dinner.
We used a Racheal Ray recipe, Mu Shu Stoup, from Just in Time. I can’t post the recipe, but it had chicken, cabbage, and pot stickers, and was delicious.
#1 – Fill in my new planner. I was so frickin excited to start a new planner! It is kind of sad how obsessively I plan; I used to plan out my outfits for vacations on paper and my friends would tease me mercilessly 🙂
#5 – Find time to curl up with my new reading material. No check, boo. But I did eat a yummy dessert while we watched “My So-Called Life.”
I warmed it in the microwave, so it was nice and gooey.
And now if I hurry, hurry, hurry in the shower, maybe I can skim a magazine! Night.
Do you keep a planner?
My Achey Breaky Heart(Burn)
There was no dinner post yesterday because there was none, dinner that is. In fact, this will be a quick-ish post because there’s been no dinner yet today either 🙂
Yesterday afternoon I picked up Adam and we went to the campus bookstore.
I spent $292.48 on materials for one class! I will not even discuss how angry that makes me, and instead will focus on how giddy I am over my new planner.
While on campus we also went to the library to do some printing. The husband got a Subway sandwich and I wanted a fountain diet coke so we got a meal with…..
cookies! I seriously had been telling Adam at least once a day for the past 1.5weeks how badly I was craving a cookie. I got a chocolate chip m&m and a white chocolate macadamia and ate them both and was thrilled. (Tina, I think you need to institute Cookie Mondays!)
Once we finally got home I grabbed a hunk of sourdough and went on a walk with Adam to the bank.
I’m not sure if the bread was going bad or what, but I felt like I was getting acid reflux and by the time we got home I was beyond ill. I crawled into bed at 9:30, whimpering.
This morning I slept in as late as possible, but knew I should go to volunteering. I was late, exhausted, and nauseous, so I pulled out all the stops and got a Rockstar Juiced Energy + Guava from the back of the fridge.
This was the ticket, I managed to hold it together through lunch! That purple can brought back so many memories – on breaks in college I used to drink them at work back home. I waitressed at a very busy bar (Duffy’s) with shifts that we super physical and 9+ hours long. I loved getting a Rockstar as a reward.
For lunch, solid food seemed to be in order so I got a slice of plain pizza.
The photo is pre-blotting. I used 3napkins, so there was a visible difference. Do you blot? I don’t just blot, I rub!
After volunteering I walked to the coffee shop and got a small side salad to get in some greens.
I studied for 2.5hours and I also had a Passionfruit Italian Soda while I worked.
When I got home I discovered Adam had picked up a package from my parents. Among other things my mom sent a HUGE stack of books and magazines,
adorable notecard rings,
and one of our favorite wedding gifts, a plate made by hand back home in St. Thomas.
You could probably guess at my to-do’s for this evening –
- Fill in my new (pink) planner
- Feed my sourdough starter – this week I’d like to try an actual loaf of bread
- Eat some damn fruit
- Make dinner
- Find time to curl up with my new reading material
P.S. While I blogged I ate a Dr. Kracker Cheddar and Pumpkin Seed Crisp with onion dip.
Do you ever get heart burn/acid reflux? How do you deal? I’m not a chronic sufferer, but I do get it more than most people I know. Not from spicy foods, however. I’ve yet to try Tums or anything but I think I probably should start.
Feels Like a Monday
On the walk to the hospital I ate 2/3 of a Gnu Chocolate Brownie Bar.
It was a nice compliment to my 70’s style kiwi breakfast failure. The flavor wasn’t my favorite, but it wasn’t bad either.
I also grabbed some Newman’s Own Organic mints.
I’m still not sleeping very well and I’m exhausted, I popped 4 of these throughout the day to help me focus.
For lunch I got veggie chili, with cheddar and jalopenos, again.
This is so yummy! There are big pieces of corn and beans and the jalopenos lend the perfect kick.
On my way out of the hospital I was jingling with change so I stopped and put my nickles to good use on a Boylan’s Diet Black Cherry Soda.
Drinking out of old-school glass bottles like this puts such a smile on my face 🙂
Now I’m going to go pick up Adam at school so we can run some errands. I am hoping to get my books for Chemistry today so we will be heading to North Campus for the bookstore. Also on my to-do list: eat some fruit! I’ve noticed a very sad lack of it in my diet recently.
I’ll say goodbye with a giveaway recommendation – the fabulous Melissa is giving away Physique57 dvds.
What did you eat for lunch today?
Go Bare
Morning! Thanks for ‘giving me the day off’ yesterday, it was busy busy busy with lots of mishaps so I needed a blog break.
This morning I tried this trio for breakfast –
1 kiwi, chopped; Stoneyfield Fat Free Plain Yogurt; 1t Crofter’s Super Fruit Spread, in North America with blueberries and cranberries.
So pretty! The spread rocked my socks, but I’ve decided that fuzz-on kiwi skeeves me out too much; I ended up leaving about half the bowl. I’m going to grab a small snack to eat on the walk to volunteering. See you this afternoon.
What peels won’t you eat? I don’t do bananas (obviously) but other than that I eat all fuzz-free skins.
Be Back…
…Monday 🙂
Don’t Cry Over Chopped Onions
Wow, today has somehow been packed! We slept in until 9:30 or so, due to a late night last night, and then got out and had husband/wife time. I’ve missed Adam now that he is in school full-time! When we were finally ready to take off our pjs we headed out for errands -can recycling, change making, grocery shopping – check.
Of course, Adam was able to convince me to get Wegman’s salad bar!
I got tofu curried salad, with red and green peppers, nuts, and raisins
and a small portion of chicken and broccoli, heavy on the broccoli.
Adam and I split a Black Forest Berry Honest Tea to drink.
We tried to shop quickly, but I got distracted by my hysterical laughter over this –
🙂 I am super excited to be done with volunteering next week so I can buy fun veggies to make for lunches at home.
After we finished the errands Adam played Devil’s advocate again and convinced me to go watch “Inglorious Basterds.” I was super hungry by the time we got to the theatre and I ate 90% of a thing of pretzel bites.
When we got home Adam took a nap and it got later and later. Suddenly it was 8:30 and we had tonsof baking to do. For dinner we made a Rachael Ray recipe, Lazy Chicken. It got majorly modified, for some good reasons – I wanted to use my farmers’ market tomatoes,
and some bad reasons – this was our potato,
so I decided it ended up being my own recipe.
Here is a link. I had only a small plate.
It was good, but I was saving my self for –
homemade french onion dip! The recipe was from Delicious Dips by Diane Morgan so I can’t post it, but I highly recommend buying the book. We shared a small bowl with toasted (homemade) sourdough bread.
Yums.
We are watching “My So-Called Life” and snuggling and then it’s off to bed. See you Sunday.
What have you made from scratch recently (ever)?
Eating Chalk 