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Most Pointless Day of Work EV-ER
EDITED TO ADD:
My email address below was wrong, please see the corrected email address at the bottom of the page, so sorry about any confusion!
So I had some training today that was a complete waste of my time. I’m not going to go into details but I don’t think it was of any value to me. Because of the training I was cranky all day. The training started right at 8 so I got to work 10 minutes early and quickly ate my delicious breakfast I didn’t even get to enjoy it but I’m sure it was wonderful. I had a 2% Cherry Fage with peak protein granola.
Have you guys noticed that almost every picture I take at work, has a ruler and a purple pen in it? That’s my favorite pen, and unfortunately I have to use that ruler almost all day every day. So, sorry if you’re sick of seeing it.
After my “oh so fun” morning I ate my lunch almost as quickly as my breakfast so I could go outside and take a walk and call everyone I knew to complain how much I hated today. God I’m such a downer and a sailor, almost every word out of my mouth was an “F-Bomb”. Lunch was a super easy wrap of pb and banana, not that you would be able to tell, I could have McDonald’s cheeseburgers in there but apparently I only took one picture of my wrap and you can not even see the contents. Girl Scout Honor it was pb and banana.
Oh and for variety I threw a red pen in there!
After my training was over I had an orange.
After work Andrew picked me up and took me to D&D to get an iced coffee. I’m so sensitive to caffeine I’m still wired hours later. And there’s no picture because I wouldn’t shut my mouth long enough to think about getting out my camera. Poor Andrew had to listen to me complain and tell stories of how hilariously sarcastic and bitchy I was all day, he couldn’t get a word in to tell me about his day.
My mom invited us over for dinner tonight and once I found out she was making a whole chicken I was sold on the idea. Somehow Mom didn’t make a veggie tonight so my plate looks super boring, I assure you it was a treat for the taste buds though. She made a side of oh so bad for you Rice-A-Roni and I was all over that.
I had another piece of chicken and another spoonful of rice. Yummmmm!
So this weather we’re supposed to have this weekend made me think about my favorite things to do in the summer and BBQing is one of my favorites. While talking to my dad tonight I though of the idea of having a (wait for it…)
Blogger Barbeque.
Would any of you from NJ or NY (I’m about an hour and 15 minute train ride from the city) or anywhere in the Tri-State area really, be interested in meeting and doing a BBQ in my parents backyard at some point this summer? If you are send me an email:
If you are I can give you the details of where my parents live and you can see if it’s a trip you’d be willing to make. I don’t really have any details obviously since I just thought of it but I don’t want to plan anything until I know that some of you are interested.
Well even though I”m off tomorrow, my sweetheart is not and I’m going to go spend some quality time with him before he falls asleep. Hope you all have a fabulous Friday and I’m hoping it goes by quickly.
Sunshine on the Horizon!
Happy Hump Day! What a crazy week it has been, luckily I have some training tomorrow that will take me away from my desk all day. Usually I stress about how my email will pile up but I’m just so excited to have an excuse to get out of my cubicle for a whole day! Plus tomorrow is my Friday so it couldn’t have happened on a better day! Plus when this is the weather forecast:
How can you not be excited for the weekend?
So I forgot my camera today, it’s been a while since I’ve done that huh? I used my cell phone so I apologize for the less then stellar pictures.
Chobani came back in to my life! I had a peach chobani with peak protein granola.
Amazing, couldn’t have asked for a better breakfast on a rainy day.
Lunch was the rest of my salad from yesterday. I finally polished the whole thing off.
As you can see I had a ton left from yesterday those salads are pricey at 7 bucks but to get 2 meals out of it it’s not that bad.
For dinner tonight we decided to have “ice and lettuce cups with nothing in them. “ I’m kidding of course but we just watched The Biggest Loser from last night and that was something Bob said which for some reason made Andrew and I laugh hysterically. Can you believe the meals those people were eating all while working out all day? I think I’d pass out.
Dinner tonight was a freezer find. Sometime in the fall we had made sausage, peppers, and onions, in tomato sauce. Well that was pulled out of the freezer tonight, and eaten over whole wheat rotini I don’t know what made me remember it was in there but for some reason I thought of it this morning and the idea never left my head.
I had one serving of pasta and lots of peppers and onions, and 5 slices of sausage. Just the right amount. Now I’m not going to lie if there was more sauce or pasta I totally would have went back for seconds. Not because I was hungry but because this was so good.
Well I’m going to lay down now and watch the Mets game, they must have done something right because I can hear Andrew clapping.
If you want the Rainbow you gotta put up with the Rain
Sorry I didn’t post last night we didn’t get home until 11 and I was asleep within 5 minutes of getting home. We used to go out some nights at 11 o’clock, now I can’t stay up for anything! Oh well I guess that’s what happens as you get older.
Yesterday I switched it up a little and had a smoothie first thing in the morning for breakfast. I had the time before work so instead of bringing my usual yogurt I blended up some purpley goodness.
This smoothie contained:
- blueberries
- pineapples
- spinach
- 1 scoop protein powder
- skim milk
- POM juice
Delicious as always but I’m all out of bananas so I definitely missed that flavor!
Well you can’t expect me to stay away from Chobani for a whole day so that was my lunch!
I added granola and pb on top. What a difference the pb makes in the staying power of this yogurt. I had an apple on the side but didn’t wind up eating it until 3:30.
Here’s a closeup:
I began craving pizza around 4 so I was texting Andrew non-stop asking him if we could go out tonight to Harborside again. He of course said we could. On the ride home we spotted a rainbow!
Can you see it? It just made me think how all week I’ve been upset and worried about my job situation and reminded me that after a rainstorm there’s a rainbow, it may sound silly but that rainbow gave me a little bit of hope for the coming months.
“Life is like a rainbow. You need both the sun and the rain to make its colors appear.”
Dinner was at Harborside again, once I had their pizza last time I was in love and had to go back for that cracker thin crust.
First I ate Andrew’s Salad which came with the dressing on it even though we asked for it to be on the side, I was going to say something but we didn’t see our waiter for quite a while so I just started picking at it.
Sorry for the dark picture, I wound up just flipping most of the salad over and the lettuce and veggies underneath barely had any dressing, I would say I ate about 1/2.
I also had a roll.
Then my pizza came, it was a lot cheesier then last time but it’s so fresh it tastes delicious!
Andrew got my other favorite from here rigatoni pomadora, and I of course and to have a few tastes.
Well I have a busy day ahead of me, with all the stress this week I let the cleaning of the apartment fall way behind so I need to get that done, then go to the chiropractor, then to the gym. Around 3 my grandparents are coming to visit for the night so I’ll probably be with them for a while since I haven’t seen them in so long! So enjoy your Saturday I hope it’s warm and sunny wherever you are!
Last Time…
This is the last Thursday night where I will have work the next day for the next 24 weeks. Sounds kind of nuts huh? With almost everything figured out I’m feeling much more upbeat and plan on spending a lot of time enjoying my Fridays during the summer. 2 of my friends don’t work on Fridays so we’re already planning some beach Fridays!
For breakfast this morning I had my usual Chobani (peach flavored today) with some granola. Maybe this picture will make it a little less boring since I’ve eaten this breakfast everyday this week.
My boss is on vacation both today and tomorrow so I was fielding a lot of questions that would usually go to her it was a busy and draining morning so about 1/2 way through I had a gigantic orange for some energy.
This orange was super juicy, just looking at this picture is making me want another one, unfortunately I think this was my last one.
For lunch today I brought a GIGANTIC salad in. This salad contained:
- romaine
- spinach
- 3 meatless meatballs
- carrots
- mexican cheese blend
- and Salsa
I didn’t finish all of this salad it was just too big. But it certainly was delicious!
When I came home there was a package waiting for me!
You’ve probably seen these floating around on the blogs and I was so excited to give these a try.
I got 9 bags of chips to sample.
I wasn’t very hungry yet but I decided to snack on a bag of these before dinner. I choose the sea salt & vinegar to try first.
Excuse my nasty nails they need to be redone so badly!
These chips are really delicious, they are not like normal potato chips the texture was more like a rice cake. The flavor was really good though and I can’t wait to try the others.
Finally I got hungry for a meal so for dinner I had brinner once again.
I had a mozzarella and spinach omelet.
On the side I also had a butter piece of double fiber toast.
And some grapes:
All together:
This dinner definitely hit the spot!
Well I’m off to read and go to sleep, after such a busy day I am definitely exhausted!
Enjoy you’re night everyone, and hope Friday flies on by so we can enjoy the weekend!
Revealing the Source of My Stress
Now that everything is official I can finally share with you guys what has had me so stressed out. Before I do though let me just say I know that things could be worse, and they are for a lot of people, but I have a lot of decisions to make that are going to have a large impact on me and Andrew.
Apparently the company I work for isn’t doing so well right now, (who is though really?) We had another big round of lay offs this morning and although I wasn’t one of them it was so hard sitting around all morning listening to people crying, and saying good bye to people I’ve worked with for over 3 years now. The people who had been there the longest were unfortunately the people laid off this morning, it was a very rough time at work. After the layoffs were complete we were called into a company wide meeting, where we were told that we were on a hiring freeze, and also there would be no raises this year. But then the part that had me worried the most was announced. They are cutting our hours, I will only be working Monday through Thursday, and each Friday I will have off for the next 6 months. They are allowing us to use vacation days for 2 of those Fridays a month, but I don’t have a lot of vacations days, and it will unfortunately not last me until the end of 6 months.
I know how lucky I am that I still have a job, I know that I could have been one of the many of people laid off this morning, but now with the 4 days off a month I’m losing more money then my rent. I don’t know what’s going to happen yet but I’ve lived in this apartment for almost 2 years now, our lease is up June 1st, and I have to make a decision on whether I can stay here and live tightly money wise for the next 6 months, or if I have to move back home. Again I know that I’m lucky to have that option, I don’t have a family to support and I can always pack it up and go back to my parents. But even though it’s not my fault I just feel like a huge failure, that I really can’t make it on my own and have to run back to mom and dad for help.
I have also lived with Andrew for 1 out of the 2 years I’ve been here, and I just can’t imagine not living with him anymore, he’s my best friend and I know we’ll still be together but not living together seems so weird now. I’ve spent a lot of time trying to figure everything out but I don’t know what to do, I love my family but living on my own for 2 years has been great. A lot of my stress has come from trying to figure out what to do about the living situation, can we continue living together in one of our parent’s houses or are we going to have to move separately?
The bright side is I will now have long weekends for the whole summer, but when you’re losing 20% of your income a month it’s hard to think of that as a plus. I’d so much rather work a 5 day week then have to deal with this.
After the meeting we were all told we could leave at 12 since obviously no one was going to be very productive. My eats today were completely boring. As you can imagine between being upset to see co-workers leaving, and worrying about everything I haven’t been very hungry.
For breakfast I had Chobani and granola.
When I was about 1/2 way done with this I found out someone I did not expect to be leaving was laid off, I got really upset and threw most of the rest out.
After coming home and talking to my mom and my friend, michelle on the phone I mixed up a smoothie, I knew I needed to eat but wasn’t hungry so I figured that was an easy thing to have. I enjoyed this out in the sunshine on my deck while on the phone with my mom.
This smoothie contained:
- spinach
- POM juice
- blueberries
- pineapples
- 1 scoop protein powder
- pb
- and skim milk
So that’s it for now, I’ll be back tonight with my dinner post, I’m about to head out the door to go to my parents house to talk to my mom about everything, and hopefully get to the gym. I hope you are all having a great day!! Sorry for such a depressing post, I’m sure once I have everything figured out I’ll be back to posting like normal!
This Too Shall Pass…
Thanks again for all your super sweet comments. I’ll be able to share everything tomorrow, but it’s going to be a pretty rough night for me tonight so I’m going to post quickly. Kate from Cooking With Kate left me a comment yesterday that said,
“…just know that “this too shall pass.”
What a perfect thing to remember when things get a little rough. Really my situation could be a lot worse and I also need to remember to count my blessings.
So let’s jump into today’s eats so I can go unwind and get some sleep!
I slept horribly last night, it took me forever to fall asleep, and when I did it was restless so I was exhausted this morning, I grabbed a Chobani Peach Yogurt on my way out the door.
Lunch today was not planned ahead so I ran out to the outlet center across the street and grabbed a salad.
This salad had:
- Romaine Lettuce
- Cucs
- Jalapenos
- red onions
- cheddar cheese
- and light balsamic vinaigrette
On the side I also had a 9 grain whole wheat roll.
I came home and decided instead of being here all by myself in the apartment I would go to my parents house for dinner. It helped me keep calm to be around my family for sure. We had pasta with spicy spaghetti sauce, on top of mine I added 1.5 tbsps of ricotta cheese.
It was a delicious meal and who doesn’t love a simple home cooked dinner with family?
Well I’m off to go to bed, I’ll be filling all you guys in on the source of my stress tomorrow. Enjoy you’re night!
The weekend is in sight…
I can’t believe today is already almost over, this week is flying by! And the fact that a week from now it’ll be April is nuts! 2009 sure is moving quickly! Anyone else think this year is going fast?
For breakfast today my old love is back. Chobani! Oh how I’ve missed my Chobani, especially my vanilla. I had that with a peak protein granola sprinkled on top.
This is a heavenly combination!
Lunch today was a pb and banana sandwich with some green grapes on the side.
Some of my grapes were very tart, I didn’t enjoy those few, but the rest were perfectly sweet!
Around 3 I was ready to gnaw my arm off, I didn’t think I had any snacks with me because I really haven’t been snacking in the afternoons. I was about to hit up the vending machine when I remembered that I did, in fact, have a snack courtesy of Missy. She sweetly handed out some clif z bars on Sunday at the brunch, and I luckily still had it in my bag. So thank you so much Missy for keeping me away from the vending machine!
Once I got home from work I was once again hungry, I don’t know what is with my appetite today. I knew exactly what I wanted I was inspired by this meal. I had some meatless meatballs and was craving tacos so I made a taco wrap. I used 4 meatless meatballs broken up and cooked in taco seasoning, romaine lettuce, spinach, mexican cheese blend, and salsa, on whole wheat tortilla.
This was so good!
After resting and watching some of last night’s Biggest Loser it was time to go to the gym. I did strength training first and then jumped on the treadmill, I didn’t feel like running today so I walked at a steep incline for a while. According to my HRM my stats are:
- 450 calories burned
- Avg HR 153
- Max HR 181
Have I said how much I love this HRM already? One thing I did notice on the treadmill is since they’ve got Polar HRM built in my stats show up on not only my treadmill but the one next to me. I don’t know if that’s normal or not.
Once returning back home I snacked on 2 Tagalongs.
Last year when I got my 2 boxes of Tagalongs they were gone in about a week, I’ve had these for a week now and this is my second helping of them. Just goes to show me how much I’ve improved since the beginning of the year.
Well lovelies I’m off to bed, I hope you all have a great night!
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