Archive for November 8th, 2009
One lazy Sunday.
That is exactly what today has been! Super lazy. I was just surprised at how much energy I had today, I hope my body gets regulated back to it’s normal schedule. I am planning on heading to bed right after posting and reading! I am currently reading Julie & Julia..it seems sort of appropriate I think! 
Loving it so far..
Adam brought me lunch since we were lacking on groceries and I was too tired to try and cook something. He brought me a spicy tuna roll from Publix..
After I took this picture I did my best to scrape off as much of the spicy mayo as I possibly could. It just wasn’t so pretty afterward..
Today we finally pulled ourselves out the door to head to Best Buy and the Super Target. I am asking for something special for Christmas so I had to check out some things to make sure I knew what I wanted to add to the list! Also, trying to figure out where we should head up on Black Friday!
We then headed to Super Target to get our weekly groceries. This time I stocked up on veggies, frozen and fresh! I realized last week how much I truly lacked veggies. I know I will be eating lots more this week. Especially since I just bought some Annie’s Goddess dressing..super yum!
For dinner we picked up some things to make a yummy salad. I was craving another delicious salad after lunch on Saturday with the girls!
My salad included:
- A chopped Bosc Pear.
- Gorgonzola cheese crumbles.
- Artichoke hearts which I drained & rinsed.
- A balsamic vinegar reduction.
We just poured balsamic vinegar in a pot and let the water cook out of it to make it nice and thick..
Note to self..be careful when checking on it, you may inhale some and it will NOT feel too good..as both Adam and I learned very quickly.
This salad was DELICIOUS!! Definitely needs an encore every week if possible..yum yum yum!
I also had an Arnold’s sandwich thin because this salad didn’t really fill me up!
To drink, some cranberry juice on the rocks..
For dessert..some of Lindsey’s delicious mini-cookies! Okay..three of them..
And maybe one little pumpkin spice hershey kiss! My sweet tooth was rearing it’s sugary head this weekend!
Tomorrow is a new day! At this point (not including my week off for Thanksgiving) I have three weeks left, one of those where I teach full-time (this week) and next week I start handing the class back! I am SO excited! Once my internship is over I will have two full weeks before graduation(and working on finding a job) to work on recipes, focus on blogging, food, and running! I am beyond thrilled I just need to think of a mantra to repeat in my head this week. I definitely want to finish strong and try and keep my energy up. Any suggestions?
I have some things to finish up before next week..hopefully I will get that done in the next few days!
Earlier I mentioned black Friday, do you have any mandatory go-to places? I have never done it but I might for awesome deals on electronics!
Okay..off to rest up for the week.
Wishing you all a wonderful night sleep!
Katy
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5 comments November 8, 2009
Christmas in Cocoa!
Well, it’s now officially Christmas at the mall in Cocoa! I am on three hours of sleep right now so today is going to be interesting! Mall work goes from about 6PM-5AM. Luckily we were able to leave early since their are two “shifts”. We lasted until 2:45 and decided we would rather drive home awake, then push it and drive home exhausted.
I had a small plastic bag of Pirate’s booty right when we got to the mall as we were checking and replacing lights on the garland. I sipped on my 32 oz. of water as we worked as well. Mmmm H2O!
I also snacked on some monkey munch/puppy chow(whatever you choose to call it!):
Yumm! My wonderful friend Ashley brought a huge bowl of this stuff for us to munch on. Chocolate, peanut buttery goodness!
I also snacked on a few pieces of halloween candy throughout the night, about 4 pieces throughout the night. It was a LONG night so it was a nice sugary pick me up.
When we first got there we had three hours of prep work which involves “fluffing” garland, finding which lights work and don’t and replacing the lights that don’t. My pictures came out blurry, but here are some from the work room..
Yep there’s a whole lotta Christmas going on..
At about 8:30 we broke for dinner which was GREAT because we were starving. The group decided on pizza from the Sbarro in the mall, my only request was that there be veggies on the pizza. Luckily, Adam was ordering so he made sure to get one and even more fortunately I had some other veggie lovers to share with!
Plus another piece half the size of this one.
Okay it literally had just come out of the oven when we got it and my veggies tried to escape my ravenous attack. They lost the battle. I scooped the veggies back on and as unattractive as it looks it was yum! They had green peppers, a little brocc, red peppers, onion(notice an Italian theme with the colors?), and mushrooms! Mmmm! I wish their were more veggies on the pizza but it was better then having no veggies at all!
I brought some POM tea for a pick me up with dinner. I have never tried POM tea but it was yummy! I bought two of these during a sale at Publix so I have another yummy one waiting in the fridge for me. I loved the fruity green tea taste, it was a nice treat.
I also hated the pizza..obviously..
Throughout the night we prepared garland to hang..literally all night! Thank goodness though, the time flew by so fast. I literally couldn’t believe how fast time was passing by. At around 11:30 we hit a wall though and my friend Gayle I were pretty much garland buddies the whole night and we needed a coffee break. The only place to really get coffee that late(the DD wasn’t 24 hours..sad) was 7-eleven. We grabbed our friend Andy and drove down the road and made a coffee run. I ended up drinking an unpictured vanilla iced coffee. It was SUPER sweet! I’m not used to drinks that sweet, but it did the job.
Then during break around 1:45 I dug into this and shared with Adam:
He was really excited about this flavor, so was I! It was yummy with a very subtle sweetness. You would expect a little more tartness from a pineapple yogurt but it had just enough. It wasn’t my favorite flavor so far, I liked it..but Adam LOVED it!
We decided to head out at 2:45 since it was just us two driving home and we didn’t want to wait until we were super tired to drive home. Better safe then sorry, right? So we headed home. Luckily I think the coffee took 3 hours to kick in because we were talking the whole way home!
It was my first night home alone in our apartment all night, I ended up turning all the lights on and watching the recorded episode of SNL with Taylor Swift. It was one of the funnier SNL’s I have seen in a while! I think she did great, I especially loved “The Monologue Song”.
Long story longer, I couldn’t fall asleep. I was up until 6 AM..the sun was rising! I fell asleep watching Friends on my laptop. I woke up bright and early at 9:45 and couldn’t fall back asleep. At least I will be able to fall asleep early tonight?
For breakfast I had another breakfast cookie..yummm! I was sadly..and I mean sadly..out of bananas! It was still good but I missed the nanner yummyness! I added half a cup of 0% plain chobani and some more mushy strawberries.
Messy, yummy breakfast!
I then moved over to the coffee station, especially since..if you look at the clock..I had been awake 4 hours prior. Mmm coffee..
I am hoping to get out of the house today..Adam may not be as excited about that he was up until 6 as well, but stayed in Cocoa..and was running around all night. 12 hours! We shall see..wish me luck? 
So that was a random job, but those decorations have to get up there somehow. What’s the most random job you’ve ever done?
Katy
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4 comments November 8, 2009
