Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Where's my Tassel?

by Meghann on September 23, 2008

Did everyone notice the new layout? What do you think so far? I have this whole vision for a new look for my blog and this is just the beginning. I also have plans to create a brand new customized header, I figured I would put some of those photoshop skills to work that my boss swears I poccess. Unfortunately, my plans for the new cool look fell short when a key component for this awesome header I envisioned went missing. I can’t find my tassel from my college graduation anywhere!

At FSU you rent everything for graduation so the only part you end up keeping is the tassel. I have no cap or gown to go by, all I had was the tassel. The sad part is I’m not even sure where the tassel could possible be. I have moved twice since graduating and the most recent was just under a month ago. I don’t remember ever seeing it, or can picture where it was in my former apartments. How sad is that? I guess I just assumed I had it somewhere but never actually looked for it.

Oh well, if I didn’t realize I was missing the tassel before, then I really didn’t need it. It was just a keepsake, I mean I have the most important thing (The Diploma!) right?? That I have proudly mounted above my desk, no losing that.

In other news….

My hunger leftover from lunch gnawed at my stomach the rest of the afternoon. I did try to distract it with a couple of mints and a cup of hot tea, but it was a never ending hole. After work,  I crashed through the door and went immediately to the fridge for a handful of grapes (no pic). This actually helped and held me over as I got the mail and let Abbie out.

For dinner i wanted something quick, easy and fast. On Sunday I put some freezer leftovers in the fridge in hopes this would make me eat up some of the leftovers during the week. This was a fabulous idea!

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I heated up some leftover pasta from a couple of weeks ago. I made this before the blog so I’m not exactly sure how I did it or what was in it, but I do remember it was whole wheat spiral noodles, carrots, zucchini, squash, onions, tomato sauce, goat cheese & mozzarella.

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This was actually my first attempt on heating up frozen left overs and it did not disappoint.

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The only problem was the sauce became a little soupy in the defrosting process.

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On the side I was crazing some strawberry jam so I smeared some on some whole wheat toast. I know strawberry jam toast seems like an odd combination with pasta but it worked for me. :)

All day I had told myself since my lunch was low in satisfaction, then I could have a generous dessert.

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I bought this peanut butter rice krispi treat at Whole Foods on Sunday. Trust me, I had every intention of eating this entire block especially when I was dreaming about it this afternoon. Unfortunately my eyes are slightly larger then my stomach and I could only finish half. which is fine by me, it will just give me something sweet to finish off tomorrow. :)

I was very happy and satisfied with this dinner after such a poor lunch! I’m sorry for being such a downer today, I promise to be back in my bubbly food obsessed self tomorrow!

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The Hungry Cranky Girl

by Meghann on September 23, 2008

Today I decided to venture outside of my normal lunch routine and actually go out to eat. I’m usually not a fan of going out for lunch because of the unnecessary calories and my lack of $$, but over the weekend I discovered my cousin’s wife works right down the road so we made plans to meet up for lunch this week.

 

We met at this cute little lunch place called Shakers. It had a zillion different types of salt and pepper shakes all over the café. It actually reminded me of my favorite breakfast place in Tallahassee, Jenny’s Lunchbox, which has vintage lunch boxes hung all across the ceilings. They like to really play up their names don’t they?

 

They had a great menu with plenty of yummy options, it was another one of those “I don’t know what I’m going to order until the waitress shows up.” I ended up with the Spinach Salad which according to the description on the menu had Diced egg, mushrooms, crumbled bacon, raisins, tomatoes and red onion over fresh spinach leaves. Served with our Sweet & Sour dressing.

 

I asked for no bacon and the dressing on the side. The waitress told me it was a big salad and I probably wouldn’t need anything extra. She was probably thinking here is a skinny girl (is it to awkward to refer to myself as skinny? Maybe I should refer to myself as petite?) who asked for no bacon and dressing on the side, she probably doesn’t eat. Boy was she wrong.

 

 

The salad came and it was good and all, but I finished it in under 2 minutes. There was nothing to it! I was still hungry and was staring at my cousin’s pastrami sandwich like it was heaven. I held off and never asked for a bite, but I think if she would have left the table then there would have been no sandwich when she returned.

 

 

She did however graciously give me her pickle, which did nothing for my bottomless pit stomach. I have no idea what was wrong with me. That salad should have at least filled me up a little, not left me feeling so empty. I am also pissed that I paid over $7.00 for that damn salad and was not left satisfied at all. I’m sorry, but I’m cranky and still hungry.

 

As soon as I got back to my desk I dug into my planned afternoon snack, a Clif Nectar Lemon, Vanilla & Cashew bar.

 

 

I’ve tried the dark chocolate & walnut version of these before and was not impressed. However; a blogger out there (sorry I can’t remember who it was, speak up if it was you) gave a really good review of this bar so I thought what the hell? I’ll give it a shot.

 

 

Yuck! I did not like this bar at all. The lemon flavor just did not go at all, it was just icky. But like you might have guessed I was starving and ate the whole bar anyways. So now I am still at my desk cranky and unsatisfied with my food for today. I better have a good dinner to make up for this. L

 

I will now grudgingly be making my way through the rest of work. Hopefully there will be no vending machine raids in my future, thank god I don’t carry cash on me. Otherwise, I would already be satisfying myself with a nice chocolate bar. I hope everyone else had a better lunch today then mine.

 

Editors Note –

 

I almost forgot I did have a good mid-morning snack today. I spread applesauce over 1 ½ graham crackers.

 

Here I am mid bite. Maybe my problem was this snack wasn’t large enough to hold me over?

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Parking Lot Boot Camp

September 23, 2008

Since my 15k is on Saturday I decided to hold off on too many long runs this week. I want to be extra pumped and motivated on race day with that itchy feeling I get when I haven’t been running. So, this morning’s exercise routine was a little mix up of random things I threw together more »

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