Finally feeling pretty recovered from this days-long hangover. I should probably not have more than two drinks in the future. This is not the first time I have told myself that.
We are leaving super early Saturday morning for Texas, so our recent goal has been to eat up as much non-frozen leftovers and things that are close to expiring as we can. That way we have fewer dishes to wash as well. Here is what I ate Wednesday:
Breakfast: lime flavored Mediterranean yogurt, Smores cereal with milk
Lunch: banana, bagel with whipped cream cheese and smoked Turkey
Dinner: left over pasta with broccoli and garlic cheese sauce
Snacks/desserts: cupcake, molasses cookie ( purchased at the airport for $1.72)
Beverages: water
Yesterday I woke up with a massive headache. I had to walk to the King County Metro customer service center because I lost my transit card on the way home Wednesday night, and I had to have it shut off and replaced. Unfortunately whoever found it had already used about $5 worth of the credit on it. After that I decided I needed some caffeine and something to eat to get rid of the nausea and headache I was experiencing. I had taken Aleve, which did nothing. I stopped at Starbucks for an iced coffee and a breakfast sandwich. I spent $5.69 there.
After work Jeremy met me at work and we went to the store. He said that Winter had told him we needed milk (we got a pint since we're leaving so soon), and frosting (spoiler alert: we did not need frosting). I also had a coupon loaded to my QFC card for a ten pack of free Mission soft taco tortillas. They had offered it for national taco day. So we got those too. We spent $3.28.
Breakfast: Starbucks breakfast sandwich
Lunch: frozen turkey and potato entree, strawberry flavored Greek yogurt
Dinner: cavatappi pasta with leftover turkey sausage and tomato pasta sauce
Snacks/desserts: cupcakes, last caramel apple Oreo
Beverages: iced coffee with half and half and two sugars, water
Friday, October 10, 2014
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Grocery and food purchases up to this point
Jeremy and Winter saved all the receipts from food purchases while I was gone, as well as from when he went to the store yesterday. Here is what they bought.
Subway: $16.96
Bartell's Drugs:
2 Chicken Ramen packets ($.25 each) $.50
1 doz eggs $2.69
Hot cocoa mix $.99
Total $4.18
Grocery Outlet:
3 boxes of Krave Smores cereal ($.97 each) $2.91
3 lime flavored Mediterranean yogurts 3/$1.00
8 oz garlic jack cheese $1.79
2 packages of six bagels ($1.99 each) $3.98
2 Energy drinks ($1.49 each) $2.98
14 6oz. pouches of pre-cooked beef ($.99 each) $13.86
6 Crystal Light liquid drink mix ($.99 each) $5.94
2 2.5 lb bags of frozen chicken tenderloin ($6.99 each) $13.98
1 box of pretzel thins $1.69
8 oz pepper jack cheese $1.79
Family size can chicken noodle soup $1.49
2 bottle BBQ sauce ($.99 each) $1.98
1 cucumber $.79
22 oz. Deli honey ham $3.49
Total: $57.67
QFC:
9 protein bars ($1.00 each) $9.00
Sugar free strawberry sparkling water $1.00
1.84 lbs Bananas $1.27
2 lbs carrots $1.29
1.21 lbs broccoli $1.80
Total: $14.36
I am also going to count the second package of caramel apple Oreos I bought at Target in San Diego to bring back home. They were $2.84.
Yesterday I had acupuncture right after work, so I got home around 7:30. Jeremy made cavatappi pasta with broccoli and a garlic cheese sauce. He added sour cream to the sauce because he found it to be super garlicky. I thought it tasted good. I was still feeling kind of hung over yesterday, and didn't eat a whole lot.
Breakfast: lime Mediterranean yogurt
Lunch: honeycrisp apple, granola bars
Dinner: pasta with broccoli and garlic cheese sauce
Snacks: cupcake (made by Winter), cookies
Beverages: water
Subway: $16.96
Bartell's Drugs:
2 Chicken Ramen packets ($.25 each) $.50
1 doz eggs $2.69
Hot cocoa mix $.99
Total $4.18
Grocery Outlet:
3 boxes of Krave Smores cereal ($.97 each) $2.91
3 lime flavored Mediterranean yogurts 3/$1.00
8 oz garlic jack cheese $1.79
2 packages of six bagels ($1.99 each) $3.98
2 Energy drinks ($1.49 each) $2.98
14 6oz. pouches of pre-cooked beef ($.99 each) $13.86
6 Crystal Light liquid drink mix ($.99 each) $5.94
2 2.5 lb bags of frozen chicken tenderloin ($6.99 each) $13.98
1 box of pretzel thins $1.69
8 oz pepper jack cheese $1.79
Family size can chicken noodle soup $1.49
2 bottle BBQ sauce ($.99 each) $1.98
1 cucumber $.79
22 oz. Deli honey ham $3.49
Total: $57.67
QFC:
9 protein bars ($1.00 each) $9.00
Sugar free strawberry sparkling water $1.00
1.84 lbs Bananas $1.27
2 lbs carrots $1.29
1.21 lbs broccoli $1.80
Total: $14.36
I am also going to count the second package of caramel apple Oreos I bought at Target in San Diego to bring back home. They were $2.84.
Yesterday I had acupuncture right after work, so I got home around 7:30. Jeremy made cavatappi pasta with broccoli and a garlic cheese sauce. He added sour cream to the sauce because he found it to be super garlicky. I thought it tasted good. I was still feeling kind of hung over yesterday, and didn't eat a whole lot.
Breakfast: lime Mediterranean yogurt
Lunch: honeycrisp apple, granola bars
Dinner: pasta with broccoli and garlic cheese sauce
Snacks: cupcake (made by Winter), cookies
Beverages: water
- My dad texted me yesterday morning. I guess my mom got sick and they had to miss their flight to Texas. It would cost them too much to reschedule for later this week, so they won't be able to be there. :(
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Back home
Lately I have been going through some personal struggles. At times life can seem unbearably painful, and unbelievably cruel. This morning I found myself wishing that I was a stronger person and feeling like I am too much of an emotional burden to others. And then I realized:
If you take a deck of cards, and you take one card out of the deck and try to stand it up on end, it won't work. With nothing to support it, the card will fall over, no matter how straight it is standing. But if you lean the card at an angle, and you support it with a second card, also placed at an angle, the two cards will hold each other up. And the more cards you add to the structure, the stronger it becomes.
I guess people are like that too. No one person is as strong by his or her self as they would be being supported by, and giving support back, to others.
Anyway, enough with the deep thoughts for now.
On Saturday we took the written exam, which I got back on Sunday and passed! Sunday morning we did the practical portion. We will find out weighing the next week if we did not pass, but I felt good about it.
Saturday night I stopped at Menchie's on my way back to home base. Everything else I ate that day was things I had purchased at Target to keep in my room, or snacks provided by the class. Sunday, I felt a little celebration was in order and I went to Chili's after class was over. We do not have a Chili's location in Washington state, other that the little one in the airport with a limited menu and hours. So I'm probably a little more enamoured with Chili's than is reasonable or advisable. I have not been to a full size Chili's since 2008. I got a couple of margaritas, a couple glasses of wine, a big plate of my favorite assorted apps, and a molten chocolate lava cake. It was exactly what I wanted and needed at that moment.
Monday, I wasn't feeling too hot, as I expected I might not. I am not, these days, much of a drinker at all, so even the 3.4 beverages I had was honestly way too much. And I guess at my age I'm just not able to recover like I used to. I took a Lyft car to La Mesa to visit a very dear friend I have known almost 20 years now, and we went out to breakfast. It was a welcome distraction from the moderate nausea, and was the perfect end to a good trip.
I flew back to Seattle yesterday evening, and thankfully the nausea didn't get any worse. Jeremy met me at the airport, and it felt so good to be back with him. He's the card that is standing opposite of me, and we are holding each other up.
If you take a deck of cards, and you take one card out of the deck and try to stand it up on end, it won't work. With nothing to support it, the card will fall over, no matter how straight it is standing. But if you lean the card at an angle, and you support it with a second card, also placed at an angle, the two cards will hold each other up. And the more cards you add to the structure, the stronger it becomes.
I guess people are like that too. No one person is as strong by his or her self as they would be being supported by, and giving support back, to others.
Anyway, enough with the deep thoughts for now.
On Saturday we took the written exam, which I got back on Sunday and passed! Sunday morning we did the practical portion. We will find out weighing the next week if we did not pass, but I felt good about it.
Saturday night I stopped at Menchie's on my way back to home base. Everything else I ate that day was things I had purchased at Target to keep in my room, or snacks provided by the class. Sunday, I felt a little celebration was in order and I went to Chili's after class was over. We do not have a Chili's location in Washington state, other that the little one in the airport with a limited menu and hours. So I'm probably a little more enamoured with Chili's than is reasonable or advisable. I have not been to a full size Chili's since 2008. I got a couple of margaritas, a couple glasses of wine, a big plate of my favorite assorted apps, and a molten chocolate lava cake. It was exactly what I wanted and needed at that moment.
Monday, I wasn't feeling too hot, as I expected I might not. I am not, these days, much of a drinker at all, so even the 3.4 beverages I had was honestly way too much. And I guess at my age I'm just not able to recover like I used to. I took a Lyft car to La Mesa to visit a very dear friend I have known almost 20 years now, and we went out to breakfast. It was a welcome distraction from the moderate nausea, and was the perfect end to a good trip.
I flew back to Seattle yesterday evening, and thankfully the nausea didn't get any worse. Jeremy met me at the airport, and it felt so good to be back with him. He's the card that is standing opposite of me, and we are holding each other up.
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