Half of a random protein bar, split with the husband and greatly enjoyed by us both. Buffalo chicken sub with fries.
Ugh.
Our New York City visit was fabulous. Our return trip home not so much. I’ll be back with all the good details tomorrow.
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Just the Facts
This needs to be a quick post, just the facts. Adam and I got hooked (way hooked!) on Firefly today and the sooner I post the sooner I watch 🙂
This morning = Sabrina the Teenage Witch and a huge bowl of popcorn.
Bringing ‘corn back into this house was a bad idea, and that’s a fact.
Plus real lunch.
Sandwich Thin with cheese spread and turkey,
Bartlett pear.
Dinner a la mother-in-law; turkey quesadilla casserole.
End.
STT; Sunday Afternoon – 3rd Anniversary
Sunday afternoon, after a quick trip home for provisions, we headed to the movies. We saw a matinée of True Grit, which I just loved. Cowboy movies are so not my thing, but somehow I knew this one would just rock my socks. The story line was funny and touching and I loved the vocabulary.
I packed a baggie of baby carrots,
and bought some Jordan Almonds at the theatre.
We did a quick and easy dinner when we got home.
Baked okra with ketchup,
cole slaw,
and two mini buns (split), toasted and topped with leftover spinach dip.
Plus dessert.
One of our guy friends was flying out Monday afternoon, so we met him that morning for brunch.
A few other friends came along and it was great to catch up with everyone.
I ordered a mahi mahi sandwich with a side of cole slaw.
Delish! Mahi mahi is my favorite kind of fish, so light and flakey.
I left my bun, but devoured everything else.
Dessert (clearly I’m on vacation, who really needs lunch dessert?!?) came at home in the form of 7-layer bar.
Around 4 – we are really watching our sun exposure – Adam and I got in an afternoon workout. We headed to the beach, and amid the frolicing did 30ish minutes of hard swimming.
We met up with visiting family friends for dinner. I wasn’t feeling confident about the healthiness of the meal, so I supplemented with some baby veggies before dinner.
Good thing, because pizza was dinner. I ended up with a shrimp scampi slice,
and a bbq chicken slice.
Adam and I also split a Caesar salad with extra veggies.
And I had a piece of homemade toffee when we got home.
Today (the 28th) is our 3rd wedding anniversary!!! We’ve celebrated by spending the day doing things we both love. Like starting the morning with a run… We got in an hour+ workout that included a bit of walking, 2 miles of running, and the mile uphill walk home. Between today’s run and yesterday’s swim, both of our legs are pretty sore!
Next on the agenda was lunch at our favorite restaurant.
Plus some time sipping coffee and reading.
I ordered a Vietnamese Latte (sweetened with condensed milk),
and Adam and I split the spicy sweet potato wrap (with spinach and rosemary goat cheese).
We’re unsure of the agenda tonight – there’s a party we might skip – but all I really need is an evening with the (3year’s old) husband!
St. Thomas; Thursday Afternoon – Friday Afternoon
It’s Christmas Eve! I can hardly believe that 2010 has flown so quickly. My family throws a big Christmas party this evening, so Thursday afternoon was spent on errands and party prep. Lunch was eaten on the fly. Slice of cheese pizza with baby carrots.
Followed by the last of the gingerbread granola, with skim milk, a few hours later.
With one serving of Junior Mint Peppermint Crunch for dessert.
For dinner, Adam and I headed to the Caribbean Saloon. Generally the Saloon isn’t much to write home about, but their buffalo chicken sub is to die for!
I left most of my sub roll and half of my fries, but gobbled up that extra spicy chicken (dipped in blue cheese!).
Later, Adam and I drank some of this strawberry lemonade while watching “Ernest Saves Christmas.”
It was a surprisingly good movie for getting us in the holiday spirit. We’ve got “Scrooged” on Netflix too.
This morning we got up bright and early to get in some activity. If you have a light exercise day, what better place to spend it than this???
We spent an hour walking up and down the beach. The uneven, squishy sand is the equivalent of cranking up the resistance on the elliptical. Disclaimer, we did spend some time taking pictures too –
After an hour of walking, the final leg if our workout was the walk home. We were only a mile away (this distance we could measure with the car), but steep is greater than length. We had to defeat two major hills.
Thank goodness there were things to distract us.
Does anyone have any idea what this is supposed to indicate?!??
And then we were home.
We’ve spent the day on party set up (and naps) so I mostly grabbed bites where I could.
Though I decided to be sensible and grab an actual sandwich (mini, turkey breast, with cucumber, pickles, red onion, and bbq sauce) from Subway before I went overboard on the cookies and dips.
Going overboard on cookies and dips is a party activity 😉
If you celebrate, I hope you have a merry Christmas tomorrow!
A Pre-(Impromptu)Party Post
Ooof! So far we have packed this winter vacation full of fun. I’ve been AWOP (<–away without posting) so I’d love to give you guys a full recap, but frankly, we’ve got a party to throw! Yes, the party is tonight, and yes, it was planned, um, today.
Yesterday evening we took my in-laws out to dinner at Pearl Street. (No you didn’t miss a lunch post, I just didn’t eat lunch.) I ordered a turkey reuben.
There isn’t actually a turkey reuben on the menu, but PS is fabulous so when I asked to sub turkey for corned beef they happily complied.
With cole slaw on the side.
We had some time to kill so we headed to Starbucks where I ordered a short, skim, salted caramel hot chocolate.
Then we headed to see….. The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra!
No photography was allowed during the show, but I promise you it was as aesthetically pleasing as it was easy on the ear. I didn’t recognize all of the music but the show closed with scores from “The Nutcracker” and “Messiah” and everything was wonderful.
During intermission, the husband and I split a cranberry juice with champagne.
Fast-forward to a morning that came way too quickly, and the husband and I were out the door to see his parents off.
We were out and about too early for Target, so while we waited for paper plates and napkins to become available we stopped into Bagel Jays to split a rye bagel with lox spread.
Delish! The rye bagel was a pretty exciting concept.
During the fray I did take time to cash in a Groupon for a mani/pedicure.
And to grab lunch from the Wegman’s hot bar.
But then it was back to work!
We’ve got things mostly done now, so I took a break for blogging and dinner.
The other half of my turkey reuben was delicious.
But this microwaved frozen okra was not.
Even spicy paprika couldn’t save it. I forced down half to get in my greens, but this was slime city.
And now I’m looking forward to seasonal beer, mint chocolate cake balls, and hot pepper peach cheese-ball!
And the Camera Ran Away with the Hairbrush
There was no day post today because my camera battery needed to charge. Really I think suicide was a last-ditch effort on the battery’s part to avoid involvement in my train wreck. It’s probably a good thing the earlier half of the day went without photographs.
I ate chips for breakfast – embarrassing.
I met Katie for lunch at Moe’s – repetitive.
And I did it all still in my clothing from the day before – why am I allowed to leave the house?
Thankfully the husband’s parents came into town for a belated birthday celebration and that got me to pull my act together. I even took a shower.
Because if cake’s not worth clean hair, then what is?
First though, was dinner. We needed quick wait, accessible parking, and good food – Jack Astor’s. With lobster and crab dip to start.
I ate this plate x2.
And then I proceeded to terrorize the wait-staff. Diet Roy Rodgers, please.
Once we got that figured out (diet soda, grenadine, cherry on top) I cobbled together a meal using pieces from three different menu items.
The end result was delicious. A turkey burger with white cheddar, jalapeno zucchini relish, and fig jam.
I ate all of my turkey/toppings, half of my bun, and half of my fries. Truth be told, I did not need the fries, but malt vinegar was available and I feel the end tummy ache was worth it.
After dinner we did a driving tour of Christmas lights.
I couldn’t get pictures from the moving car, but the trees on Elmwood are just gorgeous!
Then we headed back to the hotel room for cake. Actually, Chocolate Decadence to be exact. “4 layers of chocolate sponge cake filled with whipped ganache, frosted in chocolate butter cream. Garnished with chocolate buttons and drizzled chocolate.”
I only ate a few bites of my piece (I wasn’t kidding about that tummy ache!) but it was pretty divine.
We spent a long time talking to my in-laws, hence the midnight post. It’s been a fun day, and if I want tomorrow to be fun as well I’ve got to get to bed!
Almost Done!
I’m done! Well, almost done; I have a presentation tomorrow morning but it’s so easy I can basically say – “I’m done!”
This morning started off with a seasonal favorite,
nog overnight oats.
Last night I mixed together 1/4 cup oats and 1/2 cup Silk Soy Nog, and this morning I stirred in a Yoplait Fiber One Vanilla yogurt and a healthy shake of nutmeg.
Topped with Christmas sprinkles, of course.
I headed to campus early today, I was on foot and I wanted to make sure I had time to return my book rentals and gym it before my exam. Book buy-back was a total failure, but the gym was a success. I took my notecards to the treadmill for 45minutes of brisk walking on a slight incline. 2.6miles later, and I knew my stuff.
Sort of. My exam was pretty polarized – I got a definite 100% on all the cumulative material but I’m pretty sure I failed all of the new material. Which is extra embarrassing because the new material was on reproduction. I failed an exam on the menstrual cycle? Way to be a 25-year-old FEMALE, Emily.
Also fun? When you fumble on the treadmill and your “vagina” notecard goes flying back into the cute boy working out behind you and he has to get off of his elliptical to bring it to you. “Oh god, I have an Anatomy exam today! I’m not studying up for a sex change, I swear!” Way to make it less awkward, Emily.
I had a short break between the my exam and meeting with my presentation group, so I dug into my lunch from home.
That baggie of carrots was consumed alongside Monday’s sandwich twin, Arnold’s Whole Grain White Sandwich Thin, 1 slice 2% Provolone, 3 slices Applegate Farm’s Turkey Bologna.
Good lunch, good meeting, quick walk home, and I’m done!
A question for the females (Adam knows more than me and it’s embarrassing, so no men allowed) – if you had to take an exam on your reproductive cycle, how do you think you’d do?
Holiday Dishes and Demons
Do you have your holiday dishes out yet? Other than the reindeer stuff (very nice, Kate Spade bowls and mugs) from my mom this little tree is my only piece.
It made lunch feel festive.
Although, lunch was pretty exciting (to me) all on its own.
Sandwich/salad, sandwich/soup, and soup/salad combos always feel like lunch at a restaurant to me.
My salad was a butter lettuce base with Newman’s Own Asian Sesame Dressing, Sahale Snacks Valdosta Pecans, and a bit of pulverized coconut.
I don’t eat salads at home that much – something about the lettuce skeeves me out – but this was a great combo.
My sandwich was a grilled cheese with tomato.
I spread two slices of Nature’s Pride Oatmeal bread with Miracle Whip, topped with tomato slices and two pieces of 2% provolone, then spread the outside with Smart Balance Light and pan-fried.
Yum! The husband took a big bite (I made him a pretty gourmet mini-pizza for his lunch) and declared it delicious.
We watched TV while we ate. Sidenote – has anyone seen the “Family Guy” or “American Dad” Chirstmas specials this year? I think Seth McFarlane has some holiday demons, yikes!
Back to work!
Eating Chalk 