It’s funny, but on weekends when there is a holiday, my grocery shopping usually is focused just on the holiday meal.  Since I had last Friday off from my day job, I decided to grocery shop for Easter that day and figured I’d go to the store again on Sunday to shop for the week.  But as I was shopping I was like “duh, Sunday is Easter – you aren’t going grocery shopping on Easter!”  So I mentally meal planned and just threw shit into my shopping cart.  Um, it would have been nice to actually write down my plan as I was doing it, but that would be too smart!

So I’ve basically been making it up as I’ve gone along this week.  So far so good!  I ended up making lemon poppy seed pancakes for breakfast yesterday.  I loosely based it off of Tieghan’s lemon baklava pancakes, but somehow, mine didn’t turn out as thick or as pretty as hers.  These are her pancakes:

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These are mine:

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Maybe they were so thin because I made the batter the night before?  I don’t know, but I am going to try these again and post the recipe when they turn out better.  They were tasty though!  I had 3 ounces of steak on the side for protein.

For some reason lately my shoulders have been killing me.  Like I have no range of motion and it hurts both of them if I try to raise them above my head.  I haven’t been doing any strenuous strength training so I have no idea what’s going on.  I do know that if I take ibuprofen it helps.  So I decided to hit the pool at lunch and that felt really good.  And Kym, the pool was empty too!

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30 minutes later and my shoulders weren’t as sore.  Now I just need to get a hot tub!

So as I was putting my food together yesterday, it really was another episode of “throw shit in a bag and figure it out later.”   Into the bag went:  cooked ground beef, a bag of leftover canned black beans, half a red pepper, shredded cheese, sour cream, low carb tortillas, some of my baja fresh salsa.   I would just figure it out when the time came.  As I was swimming I thought “I could make a burrito in my panini maker!” 

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This was delicious.  And the best part?  That plate comes in at 433 calories and a whopping 17.5 grams of fiber!   The afternoon of work went by fast and as I was driving home I couldn’t think what I had planned for dinner.  I knew I still had cube steak, but didn’t really feel like it, and was trying to think what else I could make when Tony suggested going out to dinner.  Done!  We went to our local Italian restaurant and had a couple Boddington Beers.   I should really their spokesperson!

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I ended up getting a stromboli – a flakey baked pizza with sausage and pepperoni and hot giardiniera – it’s so filling I only at 1/3 of it.  And I love the owners marinara sauce.  I told him how much I liked it and he asked if I had tried his meat sauce, which I hadn’t, so he brought us out some bread and sauce to try.  It was delicious, but I still prefer the good old marinara sauce.

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I’ll probably have Tony heat up some of it tonight after my shift at the restaurant.  Today is going to be a long day.  I am working a double and tonight I am working in the bar – so I won’t be home probably until 1:00 a.m. at the earliest – it’s only a 17 hour work day – no big!   Since I swam at lunch I didn’t make my steps:

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Guess who I became Fitbit friends with yesterday?  My 69 year old Aunt!  We just discovered that we each have one.  Well guess what?  She’s kicking my ass!  She sent me a text yesterday that the day before she had 17,000 steps!  Damn!

Alright, time to get the show on the road – I am still making more pancakes for breakfast since I have the batter.  I will probably walk 30 minutes around my office at lunch time to get away from my desk – I don’t like to do too much on a double work day.  And I think I am going to hit up Mariano’s salad bar for lunch.  I have to buy Diet Coke for the office – I only had 5 cans to stock it yesterday and people start to panic when there isn’t any Diet Coke in the fridge!

Make it a great day!