**This post was written Sunday, May 30th but we don’t have wi-fi at B’s parents house and I didn’t feel like dealing with the router.**

Vacation. Glorious vacation.

For the first time in a while I feel like I got to sleep until I was ready to get up…we, until B was tired of being awake by himself and he was ready for me to get up. That is still better than an alarm.

Once I did get up I made myself a smoothie. B’s Mom hooked me up with all of the ingredients I needed, including spinach and Greek yogurt.

I wish I could say it was amazing after the past several weeks of no spinach in the house. Unfortunately, I added too much milk and it was just okay.

I was stuffed for a while, but when hunger hit it hit with a vengeance.

I tried to suppress my hunger by snacking on a few chips, which was an absolute no go. I knew what I wanted and I knew I wanted to make it myself.

After a quick trip to the grocery store I had a chunk of baguette in hand and a plan for my lunch.

There was also a piece of cheese or two.

Healthy Harvest linguini with a meat and veggie sauce (made with mild Italian sausage, Newman’s Own tomato and basil spaghetti sauce, and the leftovers of last nights sautéed veggies).

It was exactly what I had a taste for. Delicious.

The morning was rainy so we spent most of our day (and night) in the house watching movies on TV. We are loving all of the premium channels that B’s parents have and the easy access to all sorts of commercial-free movies.

Believe it or not, I just got done watching the first Sex and the City for the first time ever!

Because of the rain and the lazy day in general I treated myself to an afternoon nap around 1 PM. It is crazy how tired I have been lately. I am hoping I can find a way to catch up so I can get back to feeling normal.

After my nap picture taking really flew out the window for the day.

The house is filled to the brim with food so it feel impossible to take pictures of everything I eat. A bowl of spaghetti hear, a bowl of gumbo there, a handful of chips, then a piece of strawberry cake. It is really hard to control myself when there are this many different things to try!

I have really enjoyed this nice restful day, and now I am ready for another pretty day so I can get some sun!

On top of being in a super icky mood yesterday I was really ready to get off of work so I could head to a blogger meet up for dinner. Seriously, the anticipation of this meet up is what has kept me going this week. If that makes me lame I don’t care.

Dinner wasn’t until so I had a snack to try to hold me over.

Surprisingly this orange held me over until at least 6:30 PM. For me, oranges don’t usually have that kind of staying power. Maybe I was just nervous at meeting these bloggers for the first time.

The occasion for dinner was not random, Holly the Everythingtarian is in town visiting so it was a perfect occasion to get some food bloggers together for dinner.

I came straight from work and got to the area super early and ha d over an hour to kill. I spent my time checking out Marshall’s, Rack Room Shoes, Ulta, and Books A Million, all that walking made me hungry. By the time 7 PM rolled around I was starving.

Me, Meredith (Whit’s sister), Whit, Holly, and Stacy.

Whit had been to this restaurant before, Blu Basil, and quickly ordered the hummus platter for the table.

This stuff was tasty. I love bread, especially when covered in hummus.

My good hair day was long gone by this point.

The menu looked great, but there was one thing in particular that caught my eye. There was a picture of their spaghetti and meatballs in the menu and I knew that is what I was having.

I also ordered a side of sautéed veggies.

The food did not disappoint. Plus there was so much! I brought at least half home to eat for lunch today. I had to save room for dessert.

For dessert we all split chocolate cake, turtle cheesecake, and tiramisu.

They were all good, but the tiramisu was definitely my fave. They also had some red velvet cake that looked amazing.

Thanks to Whit for getting this dinner organized!

I was really sad that I missed the fashion show at Marshalls, but this girl had to get home. I can’t wait to hang out again.

And while I am on a roll I will go ahead and show you what I had for breakfast.

Oats! I was going to call them AB&J oats but they are more than that.

I started by heating up 1/2 banana in my pot. I looked like it was melting. Then I added 1/3 c oats, 1/3 c water, and 1/3 milk. I seasoned with a little salt and some cinnamon. I topped 1/2 microwaved apple with my oats and then topped them with wheat berries, Nature’s Path granola, AB, and strawberry preserves. This was a great combo, nice and chewy.

This morning is flying by, thank goodness! And I have to get back to work.

** Somehow I lost all of my pictures from Thanksgiving 2009 until December 22, 2009. Ack! **

1 Day down and 2 to go until my vacation begins. And I am so looking forward to heading to Florida because a change in scenery will be so nice.

My parents got off safe and sound although they had a delay in Dallas. Apparently one of the flight attendants didn’t show up for their 9 hour flight. They are in the air now and will get to Germany at 2 AM-ish EST.

Today was my day to take lunch at 1 PM and boy was I hungry. I started getting light headed at 12:30. I didn’t want to ruin my appetite but I had to eat a little something so I munched on a few Food Should Taste Good olive chips.

And once I got home I ate a ton of baked spaghetti.

Then some salad.

Then a spoonful of cookie dough for dessert.

And after all of this I felt good, not stuffed.

Since lunch was so late my afternoon seemed to fly by and before I knew it I was on may way back home.

Tonight black bean quesadillas were on the menu. I threw some leftover chicken on Brian’s too. Unfortunately, I burned mine.

I ate all of my green beans and salvaged the parts of the quesadillas that I could. I probably only ended up eating about 1/2. Boo.

Then I made myself some ice cream. I mixed vanilla frozen yogurt with butterscotch chips, chocolate chips, and shredded coconut.

This was super yummy but it did not hit the spot.

I have been enjoying some Jersey Shore while blogging. Fun stuff.

Now it is time for a soak in the time and some Breaking Dawn. I want to get this book finished so I can pack a smaller book for my vacation. I will be taking either Julie and Julia or Garlic and Sapphires.

Have a good night!