I am happy to say that as of April 8, 2014 – ALL THE SNOW AND ICE IS GONE! And I can even see a bit of green grass trying to poke through the ground. I think we may have finally turned the corner on the longest winter of my life.
I had more biscuits leftover, so I decided to make my own breakfast biscuit – delish! Ham, egg white, baby spinach, a slice of American cheese – toasted it in the toaster oven at work, with some cantaloupe on the side.
I had plans to go to the gym, but damn work got in the way. Somehow I have been designated as the “cell phone expert” which I have no idea how because I am probably the least technical person in the office. I ended up having to drive to the cell phone company for one of our attorney’s phones to get it fixed. That’s one of the down sides of having “the sugars” is that my workout window gets closed sometimes. I didn’t get back to the office until nearly 1:00, I was hungry, my blood sugar was only 145 so it never happened. I just need to win the lottery so I don’t have to work! 
It’s my bosses birthday today. She never remembers my birthday, but I take the high road. I went to Mariano’s yesterday and bought a fruit tart for later this afternoon, and last night I made a banana blueberry bread for breakfast this morning. Even though my boss continually eats all my chips without asking. Ever. Case in point. I bought these chips on Monday to give to a serving to an attorney who loves my salsa. I gave him all of about 15 chips. This is what the bag looked like just one day later. Ha – I just noticed Tony’s face in the background – hi Tony!
While I LOVED my pho soup and had the second serving, I was really hungry the day before at 4:00 – it didn’t stick with me too long. So at the store I picked up two chicken tenders on the side.
The tasted like ass! The breading was weird, had no flavor, and no amount of hot sauce could bring them around. Oh well! I had about three bites and ended up throwing them out. The soup was just as good though!
So I got home from work and Tony and I hung out for a while. I had planned on making chicken marsala, but Tony was telling me that he bought a bag of ice and that the Home Run Inn pizza box kept falling out of the freezer. It was then and there that I decided I didn’t feel like cooking! It’s rare, but it does happen. I just added a bit more cheese and black olives to this.
It says that a serving size is 1/6 of the pie, but I ended up eating 1/4 of it, which is 615 calories. So good! Home Run Inn pizza has been around Chicago since 1923 – it’s now run by the 4th generation. We’ve never had Home Run Inn pizza fresh, but for a frozen pizza, this is pretty good.
So without my lunch time workout, I failed to get my 10,000 steps in:
I am going to use the Arc trainer at lunch today – it’s a piece of equipment I’ve never used – thanks to everyone who suggested it!
Stats for the Day:
- 1640 calories, 153 carbs, 100 protein, 69 fat, 16.4 fiber
- no workout
- average blood sugar 131
- still walked 2.52 miles – no bad!
I am off to cook up some chicken tacos for lunch today. Oh, and I added a plugin to the blog – you can now add pictures to comments if you want! I think you’ll see a button below your comment that shows that you can upload a picture. I will leave a picture of the chicken marsala I am going to make for dinner tonight – let’s see if it works! Make it a great day!
I often don’t feel like cooking on the last workday of the week. By then I’m always pretty tired. I try to “solve that problem” by planning an easy fast meal but sometimes I give in too and just don’t cook. I can’t even remember reading here that you didn’t feel like cooking so it doesn’t happen often that you choose pizza and you deserved it.
I think your boss is inpolite and rude by eating your food. I hate it when people do that without asking. And it just proves how sweet you are for picking up a birthday cake while she doesn’t remember your birthday.
Thanks Fran – and thanks for being my friend on fitbit! You get a lot of steps in each day!!
Do you watch the mindy project? This weeks show had her chips with her name on it in huge sharpie… That’s what you need to do! And letting me add pics? Uh oh… You’ll get poodle pics 😉
I would love poodle pics! 😀
I love Home Run Inn pizza. There is one on my way home from work, on my plan soon to stop and try it fresh. Love the pic in the comment feature.
Lucky!
It’s okay not to cook once in a while! 🙂
I have a problem with chips, so I’m usually glad when someone else eats them… 🙂
Your boss eating your stuff? Maybe it’s the diet gods telling you not to buy yourself chips? Hahahahaha! Seriously though, that’s just rude.
My boss and I share a mini-fridge because he doesn’t trust other people’s food. He rarely puts anything in it and I would be shocked if I found he ate something out of it. Oh, and he doesn’t do anything for my birthday either… but the finance department feels so bad that everyone else around here gets cake or something that they always do something for me.
I don’t do anything for his birthday because he’s asked me not to.
Ha – maybe you are right about the chips Helen! 😀
c h i p s!!!! Haven’t had one since Christmas…I’m getting close to breaking down tho. how can your boss FORGET your birthday AND STEAL your chips? how rude!!!! SO glad to hear that your ice and snow are gone…ours should be gone soon too out here in CT
Hey Jody!! And my boss wonders why she went through 22 secretaries before me – no one lasted a full year and I’ve been with her 9 years!
I can’t believe your boss forgets your birthday! With all you do!! Bummer about the chicken fingers :(. Sometimes a frozen meal is VERY necessary 🙂
I find it strange to eat food that doesn’t belong to you.
Almost all of our snow is gone except in the shaded parts of our driveway where there are still piles.
I don’t blame you for not wanting to cook sometimes. I work at home and sometimes find it hard to get the energy to cook LOL!
Well hopefully by the weekend all your snow will be gone 😀
There is a strange unspoken rule at work that if something in the staff refrigerator is not labeled with a name then it’s fair game. I just think it’s odd to eat things that don’t belong to you.
I am the unofficial printer technician at work. I am not sure why, but usually I just turn it off and on again!
I really wish I could get better at stocking the freezer so when I don’t feel like cooking there would be some easy healthy options. Good for you for taking a night off!
Ha – I am the same with the copier – like I am the copier whisperer when there is a paper jam!
Yep, nice to take a night off every once in a while. 😀
Isn’t it wonderful?!? I did 4 hours of raking last weekend and it was GLORIOUS!!!
That’s really annoying they eat your stuff without asking. It’s one thing if you offer it, but seriously? Rude.
Did you get my invitation via email for Fitbit? I wasn’t sure if it worked or not…I never got a confirmation back.
Yep – got the invite – love the motivation to keep my steps up! 😀
So cool that you can add a picture to comments – I sort of want to give you a picture of something but I don’t know what!
I love that even with a frozen pizza you jazz it up!!!
And – hooray for it finally looking like spring!!!
You have great willpower, I would have totally chowed down on those chicken tenders even if they weren’t very good. Plus I hate wasting food. The would have to be actually gross/disgusting for me to not eat them. I need to be pickier. I one time ate a bunch of freezer-burnt brownies that I had tucked away in the freezer so I wouldn’t eat all of them while fresh. Yep, they were yucky and tasted like the stale freezer, bleh. But I still ate some. Brownies are my weakness, though. Luckily after I threw the rest away I didn’t try to pull them out of the garbage!
Those El Rancho chips are Husband Jeff’s favorite but they’re only available in the Chicago area, so I bought him a bag when we were down there a couple weeks ago. He’s actually controlling himself and not plowing through the bag like usual.
I would keep my food under lock and key at work if people were stealing it! I read an NPR article about coworkers stealing food and it made me quite glad that doesn’t happen around here. The boss in the article who drank some of the employee’s drink right in front of them?? So CRAZY! I would seriously consider making the X-Lax brownies.
Ha – x-lax brownies – love it! Tony wants me to bring in super spicy chips and see what she does! I did that once with an attorney who would eat my microwave popcorn without asking.
Tony bought me jalapeno microwave popcorn that was so spicy, even I couldn’t eat it! I popped that spicy popcorn on a different floor, popped the regular one near my desk and like clock work – the a-hole came with a Styrofoam coffee cup and grabbed the popcorn – what he didn’t know was that I subbed in the spicy stuff – I counted 1, 2, 3 – and he yelled “why didn’t you tell me this was spicy?” to which I added “why didn’t you ask if you could have some?” He never ate my popcorn again!
You always crack me up when you say things taste like ass! And the chicken marsala does not look like it taste like ass!
Nope, the chicken marsala did not taste like ass – the chicken tenders did 😀
Home Run Inn Pizza is our favorite! We only get it when it’s on sale and it’s a special treat. It’s too good and addictive. And pizza is dangerous for me. I could eat it every day.
Love the arc trainer!
Enjoy your day. Dinner looks fantastic!
You say you are not tech savvy and yet you add a fancy photo button for us 🙂 You have more talents than you are aware of. I can’t wait to hear about the Arc machine. They have them at our gym and everyone except one lady seems to steer clear of them. We tried to use one the other night and couldn’t figure it out. The gym floor manager was busy spotting someone so we did the bike instead. So cute Tony popping up in the photo. It is funny how we don’t notice those things when we are taking the photo.
Ha – I stumbled upon that plugin by accident – who knew?! I have to say that you have to really move your legs to get it going to “wake up” the machine to pick a workout – took me a minute to figure that out, but I like how my feet aren’t numb like the elliptical. 😀
Here’s a picture of my chicken marsala – is it dinner time yet?! 😀