This may be short and sweet. I am watching last week’s episode of Top Chef Master’s. I love Top Chef!

I did end up throwing  a little something together before bed last night. Pasta sound good so I boiled some bow tie pasta and tossed it with some pasta sauce. I tried to melt a little cheese on top, but I wanted to get in bed so very little melting actually occurred.

I was a lazy bones and stayed in bed again this morning. It seems that nights I toss and turn I can get out of bed much easier than nights that I sleep well. It is so weird.

My appetite was a little funny this morning so I kept breakfast simple. I made a little chocolate milk and grabbed a Glo bar. I only drank 1/2 the milk though because it just wasn’t as good as I thought it would be.

My morning snack was list a continuation of breakfast.

Strawberries and cantaloupe. The strawberries were so ripe and delicious.

Along side some FiberOne shredded wheat.

I am happy to report that it was an uneventful morning. Every time that I walked in the hallway I was dying to go outside. It is so beautiful today!

I had a specific craving for lunch that I could not deny. So I called in an order to Yoshi’s.

I order 2 orders of gyoza appetiters

This is only the first order.

I inhaled both orders in mere minutes.

I heart steamed dumplings. I meant to eat some edmame that I have in the fridge, but I just never pulled it out. Instead I grabbed a little dessert. I am not going to be able to keep angels food cake in the house because I love it so much!

Back to work I go. Have a great afternoon.

Hello from North Carolina! It is so gorgeous here and I am dying to get outside for a few!

I am so lucky that my house has so many windows because it is so bright in my house. I feel like I am getting to enjoy the weather even though I am sitting in my kitchen blogging.

I am happy to report that I did get myself a little bit motivated last night. I (we) managed to get the dishwasher unloaded and reloaded, laundry done, packed, and I even prepped snacks for today. I didn’t do a full on workout, but I did do certain moves in between tasks. 50 crunches here, 30 spats there, and pushup here and there. You get the idea.

My morning was so nice after prepping last night. I did not have to rush around the house. I even laid out an outfit so I didn’t even have to worry about that!

Since I had a some extra time on my hands I decided to make a small bowl of oatmeal to go with the fruit (green and red grapes, strawberries, and a nectarine) I had chopped up for breakfast. I kept things simple with 1/4 oats, 1/4 c water, 1/4 c milk, salt, 1 tbsp brown sugar, and cinnamon. Yum!

I have been a little miss snackypants this morning. I started snacking before 10 AM! First up was a mini Babybel. These are good, but I think I like mozzarella sticks better because they have more flavor.

Next up was a big ole Doctor Kracker that I crumbled up with a wedge of Laughing Cow and 2 carrots worth of carrot sticks. 

I was really surprised how well this snack satisfied me. I came home for my lunch break, but I am not feeling hungry.

On my way home I did pick up a foot long turkey breast sandwich from Subway. I plan on leaving half for Brian to eat later this afternoon. I know I have leftovers from last night in the fridge, but they seem to heavy for such a hot day and nice cool sandwich is just what I am craving. I won’t be eating right away, but it is only a matter of time before I get hungry. I can’t let hunger distract me while I am trying to wrap up my work for the weekend!

Do you have a long weekend this weekend? What are your plans?

Also, what do you like to eat on a hot/warm day?

Happy Monday bloggies! (I don’t really feel it, but I am trying anyways.)

I am soooooooo sleepy. I think I would pay my employer to let me go home early to take a nap. Piper apparently ate something yesterday that didn’t agree with her because I was woke up at 1:30 AM to the worst smell. Then I had a lovely mess to clean up and a pitiful puppy to console before heading back to bed.

I am going to have to pay close attention to the time tonight so I am sure to get in a workout and get to bed at a decent hour. I wouldn’t hurt if I could manage to unload the dishwasher, put away some laundry, and do some reading too.

Breakfast was lovely, and colorful.

I chopped up some of my super cheap strawberries and ate them along side some red and green grapes and an Adore Glo bar. Tasty, but didn’t hold me over as long as I would have liked.

Morning snack was carrot sticks (from 2 carrots) and mini pickles.

I really like eating carrots as a snack because they require a lot of chewing and take a while to get through. You can’t seem to inhale them like you can potato chips or popcorn.

I really wasn’t looking forward to heading home for lunch, for a change. I wasn’t sure how Piper would be feeling and didn’t know if I was going to be greeted with a mess once I got there. Fortunately I was greeted with no mess, Piper was feeling better, and B got there before me and had put a pizza in the oven. Nice!

This is just some sort of Freschetta thin crust pizza that we had in the freezer. It tasted great, but it was super thin and not very substantial. I started out with 2 pieces but had to go back for 2nds.

I had another piece of pizza plus leftover potatoes and Brussels sprouts from last night. Not a spectacular meal by any stretch of the imagination, but it got the job done.

I finished things off with a few mini PB cups from TJ’s. These guys are so creamy and delicious, and a little goes a long way!

I am counting down til 5 so I can head home and get back into my usual work night routine. Do you have a routine? How do you handle changes to that routine? I love my Mom but I felt off kilter all week last week and I am happy to get back to business as usual.

No, I am not devastated over my meeting. It hasn’t happened yet. I am devastated because I worked really hard to look nice this morning (for my meeting) and I ended up getting yogurt on my pants 2 seconds after I got to work. Gah!

I quickly dove into my stash of wet wipes to correct the situation. I think I am good. But now it has started to rain. Its like I am destined to not look remotely put together today.

Regardless of the pants situation my breakfast was fantastic. The star of the show was the new Oikos Caramel flavored Greek yogurt.

It was a little on the sweet side, but I am looking forward to chowing down on more. And the I get to try the chocolate. Mmmmm.

I topped my yogurt with some Nature’s Path Agave Plus granola. Great combo, and I already have plans for my next. Do you think I could replicate Somoas Girl Scout cookies with some shredded coconut and dark chocolate chips added to this mix? I am gonna try.  What’s in the white bowl you ask?

Strawberries, blueberries, and kiwi. I promise, there really are blueberries in there.

All together now.

After finishing all of this I was stuffed with a capital S-T-U-F-F-E-D. However I did start feeling a little hungry by 10:30. To snack or not to snack that is the question.

I decided to snack because I do not want to me starving by the time I get to my lunch meeting. Inhaling my salad would probably not be a model of professional behavior. Alas, neither will taking pictures of my food. Sorry folks.

I tried to keep my snack light again today.

More mini pickles and an apple. Unfortunately these guys are not holding me over too well. I guess I am going to have to start chugging water to hold me over for the next hour.

No lunch pictures today so I will catch you all for dinner! Please keep your fingers crossed that my meeting goes well.

Actually its not so much that I want to go home as much as I just want to get the heck out of here. This entire week I have been in the worst mood and it is only getting worse. I can’t imagine what tomorrow is going to be like. Most of the afternoon my mood has been so fowl I have been on the verge of tears. I just don’t know what has gotten into me.

I have really been trying hard to sit quietly at my desk as to not take anything out on my innocents (sometimes) and unsuspecting co-workers. And my poor husband.

Can a mood this bad count as sickness? I wish.

At the end of my post last night I made mention of making a smoothie.

This guy was a bit chunky, which made it very hard to drink. Otherwise it tasted just fine. I sipped on this while I soaked in the tub and read Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl. Very relaxing.

Despite my poor mood, I was/am having a good hair day so I took some pics before I left the house.Good hair days are few and far between so I have to make the most of them. For breakfast I was craving a chicken and cheese bagel from Chic Fil A, but since I am eating out for dinner I was reluctant to eat out another meal today. Plus, I had to get Piper to doggie daycare. With all the wet weather she has not had any good playtime all week (our backyard is a mud pit because of the melting snow and Piper has already had to have one bath this week).

Back to breakfast. I had a space chicken breast that I seasoned with S&P and cooked up last night. So I decided to make my own chicken and cheese bagel…except without the bagel.

The bagels we have are monstrous and way too big to eat a whole bagel plus chicken so I subbed in Sandwich Thins.

I also put together a little fruit salad.

Kiwi, blueberries, and strawberries.  I was really surprised when I was hungry for a snack just a few hours later. I started with a bog ole carrot and when that didn’t satisfy my hunger I popped a bag of popcorn too.

By lunch I was really ready to get out of the building, but I had no idea what I wanted to eat. Actually, I really wanted to eat some Bojangles fried chicken and mashed potatoes but I knew that was just my bad mood.

Instead I went home and made one of my go to lunches, taco salad. Brown rice, refried beans, wilted spinach, shredded cheddar, 2 tomatoes, Jack’s Special salsa, and plain Oikos with some tortilla chips on the side.

Taco salads always seem to be delicious and filling (as long as I have salsa in the house) and they even satisfy food cravings caused by emotions (no more fried chicken craving here).

I finished things off with some Girl Scout cookie ice cream.

We just got this stuff on Saturday and its almost gone!

The happy food feeling pretty much evaporated as soon as I got back to the office. Boo. Maybe I need a window? Do you think some natural sun light would help my mood? I don’t know but I need this mood to lift soon. I don’t even want to be around myself.