2009 October 24

Good morning blog buds!

Ahhh Saturday. I say that every week, don’t I? I am often amazed at how quickly weeks really do pass. Can you believe that Halloween is next Saturday??

My big plans for today are heading out to the airport to pick up one of my two cousins. (No I’m not leaving my other cousin stranded at the airport … she’ll be flying in a few hours later and her work is getting her a rental car.)

I’d like to get out for a run this morning while we have some nice weather because more cold and snowy weather is on the way tonight. (NOOOOOOO!) I also have a To-Do List a mile long of other various things I want to accomplish before 10:40 am when I take off for Denver International.

Isn’t it ironic that one of the things on my TO-DO LIST is listen to more of my Tony Robbins audio of how NOT to live & die by the TO-DO LIST? I’ve only made it through 2 out of 16 CDs. Maybe learning how NOT to have a to-do list will be on disc #3…

So…my dogs are OBSESSED with veggies now. We don’t give them ‘table scraps’ per se … should something fly off of our plates and land on the floor then it’s fair game. But I do give them ‘veggie scraps’ when I’m making my green smoothies. Rascal now knows the sound of the vegetable peeler and comes tearing into the kitchen in hopes of a nibble. (I can grab the peeler from the dishwasher just to put it AWAY and he’ll come running… my peeler has become PAVLOV’S BELL!)

Cucumber is their absolute favorite. They both don’t like celery (they must get that from MSP!)

Look who’s getting a little time out of her cone of shame? AND some cucumber… a dog’s life, I tell you.

Mmm green breakfast. Water, spinach, celery, cucumber, clementines, pepitas, broccoli slaw (yes broccoli slaw…hey it was in the fridge, might as well use it up!)

A slice of Banana Bread mid-morning:

Lunch was SUPPOSED to be my favorite Tokyo Joe’s salad: the KIHEI. Which normally has grilled mahi on it. What they gave me was NOT mahi. I don’t know what it was they decided to pass off as mahi but it was NASTY with a capital N. Unfortunately after I took this photo, I cut the whole salad up into tiny bits (BEFORE tasting the fish). Needless to say… it all got picked back out and we essentially spent $8.35 on a bowl of spinach with no fish. Bugger!! If I’d been AT their establishment I’d have said something, but it was takeout and we were already home. Tokyo Joe’s, I’m on to you… you’ve always been my favorite healthy fast food place… but you’ve done me wrong a couple of times recently! Soon you’ll be bumped off the list by Garbanzo’s!

Here’s one place I know I can always count on my order tasting right:

See how good I’ve been lately? It’s been at least a week since I caved in to the Starbucks lure. This was a soy latte, with ONE pump of Chai. (Normally 4 pumps, and WAY too sugary.)

I was starvin’ Marvin at about 4:00 so I ate the last bite of my raw goat cheddar and some pepitas to tide me over till dinner.

I ‘surprised’ MSP by announcing that I was treating him to one of his favorites: Mama Roma Ristorante. Instead of “Pasta Friday” at home, we were going to have “Italiano Friday” out. He had his usual: sausage and pepperoni Calzone, which he gets to enjoy again and again because they are HUGE so we always have a box to take home. I had a side salad and a bowl of minestrone soup. (And a glass of chianti… mmmm vino!) No pic to share, I’m sorry to say. There are some places where I feel a little TOO odd whipping out my camera and taking pictures of my food. This was one of those places.

I was in the mood to wander Whole Foods after dinner. First, how weird am I that on a FRIDAY night, what constitutes as FUN for me is hanging out at Whole Foods. Second, I should KNOW that my defenses will be down after having a big glass of wine at dinner and will probably buy a bunch of stuff I don’t NEED. This is my version of drunk dialing, I guess.

And of course I left with two VEGAN cookies to enjoy (among other things):

Do you have stores that put you in danger of doing serious damage to your budget or checkbook, like I do at Whole Foods?? There are SO many things there that I want to try. I’m not a shopper for things like clothes (unless Nike Shox shoes count as ‘clothes) or purses or things like that. But take me to a health food store and I’ll “ohh and ahh” all over the place!

Well kids, I better “ohh and ahh” myself away from the computer and get busy on “THE LIST”.