Not the best day

I woke up this morning at 10, I had a really hard time falling and staying asleep last night I think I only got a couple hours worth of sleep.  Tomorrow I go back to work after a long break (like most of you) and it’s going to be hard waking up unless I get into bed nice and early tonight.

I didn’t feel good when I woke up, I’ve been awfully congested and I think it started to upset my stomach, I really didn’t feel like eating, so instead I decided to put away all our Christmas decorations.  What a sad day!  I hate doing that! 

I have to break the habit of not eating consistently on the weekends. I need to eat breakfast everyday.  I think another one of my resolutions needs to be to get up the same time 7 days a week.  Weekdays I’m fine eating breakfast.  It’s weekends where everything kind of falls apart for me.

So I ate poorly today.  My lunch consisted of 2 pieces of a pizza (small slices) and another romaine salad.

Around 2:45 my stomach started growling so I had my first Honeycrisp Apple!  Oh wow it was so good, now I know what all you bloggers are talking about!

If you look closely you can see one of my new uggs in the background, the ones I never took a picture of lol.

My dad came over and installed a new video card but the computer still wasn’t working, he removed and reattached some of the cables inside the tower and bam it was working again.  What a relief.  It wasn’t the video card, but I still got a new one anyway.  I love that my dad works with computers, no matter what I need he’s there to fix it! 

Onto to dinner, I had bought a new kind of spaghetti sauce a couple weeks ago and decided tonight was a good night to give it a try.

It’s ingredient list is extremely short, and completely all natural. 

So my dinner was this over ww spaghetti and a side of broccoli.  Broccoli is my FAVORITE veggie and it’s going to be a big item on the blog, guaranteed!

Not a great picture.  I guess I was in such a rush to eat today I didn’t really get a good look at the pictures I was taking.

So tomorrow is back to work, and I’m not looking forward to it.  I have quite a few projects due in a few weeks and I kept putting them off until the new year.  Well it’s here now (although on my rent check I wrote 2008, instead of 2009, that’s going to take some getting used to.   My next (scheduled) day off from work isn’t until the end of May!  I need to plan something fun to look forward to or this is going to be a long winter!

Since I sincerly doubt I’ll be able to blog from work, I won’t be blogging throughout the day now.  I’ll be posting a full recap of the day in the evening.  I’m hoping to figure out a better schedule but we’ll see.

I hope everyone is enjoying their Sunday Night.  For those of you going back to work tomorrow after a long break, good luck!

Oh Hello…

I’m jumping on the bandwagon.  After silently lurking on all the food blogs for the past few months, I’ve decided to give it a go.  I’ve written a little introduction so please feel free to look at my “About Me” section to find out why I’m doing this blog. 

Since it’s my first post and I’m exhausted let’s just get right into today’s eats, and take it from me they are not the best, but for day one I gave it some effort.

Last night, being New Year’s Eve, got me off to late start.  I slept until 10! Not usual for me at all.  I woke up with a horrible combination sinus headache and hangover.  But I knew last night that it was going to be my last time drinking in excess for sometime.  When I woke up I did not feel like eating, and actually wound up laying back down for a couple hours.  I did drink a lot of water though to try to re-hydrate myself.

After finally getting back up I had this:

It’s a big glass of more water, 2 clementines, and a yogurt mix.  Greek Yogurt with puffins and pomegranate.  Well, let me start off by saying I LOVE greek yogurt, as many other bloggers do.  I eat Chobani almost every single day.   So one day while browsing Costco with my dad I found 2 large tubs of greek yogurt for 6 bucks.  I was so happy I grabbed it without even realizing it wasn’t fat free like my typical chobani, but decided to give it a chance today.  It was horrible, terrible!  I literally gagged while eating it.  I couldn’t even attempt a second bite.  It was Cabot’s brand and my recommendation to anyone would be to stay away from it.

So I ate the delicious clementines and of course was still hungry so I grabbed some leftover pizza from last night.  What a wonderful start to my “year of healthy eats”.

Pepperoni no less.  Looking back I should have grabbed a cliff bar since I just restocked my supply.  Oh well, with the way I was feeling I’m surprised I stopped at just one slice.

So since this was so late in the day and my appetite was so crazy I didn’t eat again until dinner time.  And already I’m a bad food blogger because there’s no picture.  My boyfriend, Andrew, and I were having both our parents and sisters, over for dinner tonight.  It was our first joint family dinner.  We’ve been together for almost 4 years now, but just moved in together back in June.  So we decided for New Years to invite our families over for a nice dinner.  I cooked a gigantic roast beef, and it went great.  I didn’t want to take pictures of my plate in front of our parents as I haven’t told them about the blog yet.  I’m sure I’ll tell my parents but felt a little strange explaining it tonight in front of everyone.  But instead for you, I have pictures of us preparing the roast beef. 

Here is the roasting pan with 12 ounces of beer, ( I used Miller Lite, as that’s what we had on hand, someone left it here last night after our New Years Party, neither Andrew or I really drink beer but our fridge is constantly stocked from friends.  I don’t drink it because I’m allergic, and Andrew just doesn’t really enjoy it much). 

Also in the pan are 2 beef bullion cubes, these you can break up with a fork until it completely dissolves into the beer.

Then, in a separate bowl, you mix 12 ounces of water with a packet of onion soup mix, seen here:

Now allow me to introduce you to Andrew.  He’s wrestling with the roast beef to get it out of the package.

It was gigantic!

Once we had that out we put it in the roasting pan and then poured the onion soup mix over, yum!

Here’s me admiring my work:

I think the key to making a really good roast beef is to dress in a hoodie and to make sure you are still wearing your fake pearl necklace from the night before.  It just doesn’t taste the same if you don’t.

I put it in the oven at 350 degrees and it took about 2 hours.  Along with this I also made a salad, and whole wheat egg noodles.

It was a great dinner, I ate my salad (which was just lettuce, the dinner was supposed to have corn but the corn I had looked all dried out, luckily I had a few romaine hearts in the fridge), I had one piece of roast beef and a serving of egg noodles with light butter.   Everyone seemed to like it, so that was a relief.  It was stressful having my first “dinner party.” 

I haven’t had much time to work on the blog, especially the appearance, and linking all my favorite blogs.  In the next week I hope to have everything up and looking better.

Thanks for stopping by and reading my first post!