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.
Friday, October 3, 2014
First and second day of prenatal massage class
Class goes from 9 am to 6 pm each day. The class is about 80% hands on. The first day we learned bolstering, positioning, and draping. Then we did hip and leg work. Today we started with work on the pelvis, low back, and sacrum and finished with ribs, upper back, chest, and neck.
The first day I took a Lyft ride to and from class, and today I got brave an took the bus. It mostly went ok, but I found out that one of the routes I took in the morning changes after 7pm. So it took me longer to get back to the place I am staying than it would have if I had known that.
The class provides a pretty good variety of snacks, which I did not know about beforehand, but I've been taking advantage of that. Yesterday we had bananas, apples, grapes, blueberry mini muffins, pumpkin donuts, and tea. Today we had some things left over from yesterday, plus they added assorted danishes, mandarin oranges, and a big bowl of assorted Halloween candy.
I ate dinner at the Air B and B I am staying at last night. Today I walked to a nearby seafood restaurant after class for dinner. It was a small, casual , and inexpensive restaurant. I got the shrimp dinner which came with about 8 enormous fried shrimp, fries, and salad. I also got a root beer. The total was less than $13 and the food was very good.
Yesterday:
Breakfast: banana, granola bars, pumpkin doughnut, grapes
Lunch: tuna salad with crackers, turkey pepperoni sticks, cashews, honeycrisp apple, caramel apple Oreos
Dinner: chicken tortilla soup, peanut butter and honey sandwich
Snacks/desserts: mini muffins, cashews
Beverages: water
Today:
Breakfast: berry Danish, banana, half a pumpkin donut, grapes
Lunch: peanut butter and honey sandwich, mandarin orange, dried mangoes, caramel Apple Oreos
Dinner: fried shrimp, fries (I only ate one though. Fries are not my jam.), salad with ranch dressing
Snacks/desserts: cream cheese Danish, fun size Skittles, PB Snickers, and M&M's
Beverages: water, root beer
The first day I took a Lyft ride to and from class, and today I got brave an took the bus. It mostly went ok, but I found out that one of the routes I took in the morning changes after 7pm. So it took me longer to get back to the place I am staying than it would have if I had known that.
The class provides a pretty good variety of snacks, which I did not know about beforehand, but I've been taking advantage of that. Yesterday we had bananas, apples, grapes, blueberry mini muffins, pumpkin donuts, and tea. Today we had some things left over from yesterday, plus they added assorted danishes, mandarin oranges, and a big bowl of assorted Halloween candy.
I ate dinner at the Air B and B I am staying at last night. Today I walked to a nearby seafood restaurant after class for dinner. It was a small, casual , and inexpensive restaurant. I got the shrimp dinner which came with about 8 enormous fried shrimp, fries, and salad. I also got a root beer. The total was less than $13 and the food was very good.
Yesterday:
Breakfast: banana, granola bars, pumpkin doughnut, grapes
Lunch: tuna salad with crackers, turkey pepperoni sticks, cashews, honeycrisp apple, caramel apple Oreos
Dinner: chicken tortilla soup, peanut butter and honey sandwich
Snacks/desserts: mini muffins, cashews
Beverages: water
Today:
Breakfast: berry Danish, banana, half a pumpkin donut, grapes
Lunch: peanut butter and honey sandwich, mandarin orange, dried mangoes, caramel Apple Oreos
Dinner: fried shrimp, fries (I only ate one though. Fries are not my jam.), salad with ranch dressing
Snacks/desserts: cream cheese Danish, fun size Skittles, PB Snickers, and M&M's
Beverages: water, root beer
Thursday, October 2, 2014
First day in San Diego
I arrived in San Diego yesterday. I made breakfast at home before leaving for the airport, and brought it with me. Lunch was a few things I had picked up at Target right after I got here. For dinner I walked to a nearby bar and grill.
Breakfast: turkey and provolone sandwich with Dijon, banana
Lunch: turkey pepperoni sticks, dried mangoes
Dinner: Mexican veggie bowl with black beans, Pico de Gallo, avocado, a little queso, and some tortilla chips
Beverages: water, cranberry juice (on the plane), Hefeweizen
Jeremy said Winter boiled some noodles for dinner and ate them with leftover pasta sauce last night. He said they were going to the store today.
Breakfast: turkey and provolone sandwich with Dijon, banana
Lunch: turkey pepperoni sticks, dried mangoes
Dinner: Mexican veggie bowl with black beans, Pico de Gallo, avocado, a little queso, and some tortilla chips
Beverages: water, cranberry juice (on the plane), Hefeweizen
Jeremy said Winter boiled some noodles for dinner and ate them with leftover pasta sauce last night. He said they were going to the store today.
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
I'm in San Diego and it's kind of hot here
It's in the 70's today. Maybe high 70's. I don't know, but I'm all sweaty. It was much cooler in Seattle when I left this morning. I am staying at a place I found on Airbnb.com for $55 a night. They have parrots. And dogs the size of small horses. I am renting a very small guest house in the back yard. It has a private bath and the room with the bed in it is maybe 8' by 10'.
I had to have four pillows for the class and rather than paying $25 for each checked bag to bring them with me, I bought them at Target for $4.04 each. I'll just leave them here when I go back. Of course I forgot to bring extra pillowcases though, so I also had to pay $9.99 for a set of two. I will be taking those back with me. I also bought some food so I don't have to eat out too much. I bought bread, peanut butter, honey, bananas, some tuna salad kits, some microwaveable soup cups, cashews, turkey pepperoni sticks, dried mangoes, apples, granola bars, and caramel apple Oreos. I also got some sandwich bags so I can pack lunch to take to class with me.
Last night on my way home I picked up a loaf of bread for $2.79, three bananas for $.67, and Jr. Mints for $.99. Our total spending for September was $448.46. Here's what I ate yesterday.
Breakfast: blueberry flavored Greek yogurt
Lunch: banana, salad with lettuce, quinoa, turkey deli meat, provolone cheese, and spicy ranch dressing
Dinner: leftover taco mac, cereal and milk
Snacks/desserts: PB cup cookies, Jr. Mints
Beverages: water
I had to have four pillows for the class and rather than paying $25 for each checked bag to bring them with me, I bought them at Target for $4.04 each. I'll just leave them here when I go back. Of course I forgot to bring extra pillowcases though, so I also had to pay $9.99 for a set of two. I will be taking those back with me. I also bought some food so I don't have to eat out too much. I bought bread, peanut butter, honey, bananas, some tuna salad kits, some microwaveable soup cups, cashews, turkey pepperoni sticks, dried mangoes, apples, granola bars, and caramel apple Oreos. I also got some sandwich bags so I can pack lunch to take to class with me.
Last night on my way home I picked up a loaf of bread for $2.79, three bananas for $.67, and Jr. Mints for $.99. Our total spending for September was $448.46. Here's what I ate yesterday.
Breakfast: blueberry flavored Greek yogurt
Lunch: banana, salad with lettuce, quinoa, turkey deli meat, provolone cheese, and spicy ranch dressing
Dinner: leftover taco mac, cereal and milk
Snacks/desserts: PB cup cookies, Jr. Mints
Beverages: water
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Leftovers on Monday
I wound up having to go in to the dentist after my acupuncture appointment last night to pick up my partial. It was a long long day. I was pretty hungry by the time I got there. Thank god for free pretzels.
Breakfast: lemon flavored Greek yogurt
Lunch: salad with lettuce, quinoa, almonds, and balsamic vinaigrette, and a banana and black plum
Dinner: leftover broccoli potato cheese soup, turkey deli meat, cereal with milk
Snacks/desserts: PB cup cookies, white chocolate chips
Beverages: water
Tonight I have to run over to the massage studio I work at for a trade after I am done with my shift at the airport. I will pick up bread and some fruit since we are now out of both.
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