Direct Caffeine Delivery

Know what’s better than remembering to set the coffee to auto brew for the morning?  Having a friend decide to bring you coffee just cuz!

Surprise! It’s an Americano with a shot of chocolate syrup. Um yum. 

And some sort of soft and delicious breakfast cookie-type situation here.  It was full of all kinds of dried fruit, seeds, and other fun stuff.

Welcome work day distraction.  If only friends made coffee deliveries daily. :)

Around lunch time I decided I should really get those groceries I put off getting yesterday.  It meant I was missing my workout for today but it had to be done.  I bought two huge bags and one was completely full of produce!  My fruit bowl hasn’t been this happy in months.

My small breakfast had worn off by the time I was wandering through the deli looking for turkey so I decided to get a little something.  This Ancient Grains salad caught my attention and let’s just say I’m glad I only got a scoop because holy shiz I could have just kept eating.  I actually scoured the Thrifty Foods website hoping for the recipe but alas all I could find was a description so I may have to try recreating it on my own. The big deal?  Wheat berries!

That scoop was supposed to actually be the topper for my bigass salad but I ate it about 14.5 seconds after I walked in the door…so the fresh shrimp and avocado had to dive into the big silver bowl instead.

Spinach, carrots, beets, mixed bean sprouts, yellow peppers, fresh West Coast hand peeled shrimpies, 1/4 avocado…

And a little something you rarely see around here…store bought salad dressing.  I had a hankering for Ranch Dressing and this Bolthouse Farms one had a good ingredient list and low calories. 

Oh Peasant Bread.  How I would drive another 5 hours back to Tofino for you.  Thank you The Common Loaf Bakery (who don’t seem to have a website)!

That salad monster kept me full right up until I had to run out the door for photography class. But knowing I’d wind up hungry midway through class I made dinner anyway.  Leftover Pig. Just as good on day two.

Charmaine and I tackled manual focus, aperture, exposure and some metering in our class tonight.  So incredibly interesting.  Here’s hoping I retain something after sleeping on it!

Before settling in to write for you all I grabbed another juicy pear and devoured it in about a minute. 

Not a sweet in sight!  Save for the shot of chocolate in my coffee but that seriously satisfied my sweet tooth for the whole day.  I have another article to write and then I’m off to bed in the hopes of keeping that last statement true! Night.

Oink!

Hello long lost blog friends!! 

So yesterday I had these AMAZING intentions of cleaning up my eating act after my weekend away…but alas it didn’t quite work out as planned.  I blame it on the fact that for some ungodly reason I thought I shouldn’t have coffee in the morning.  What the effing monkey was I thinking?

Breakfast was all good…

Delicious fresh Peasant Bread I brought home from Tofino…with Sunflower Butter and banana.  A juicy pear on the side.

Lunch was a bon voyage date for my friend Nicole who is moving to Germany (!!) this week.  She missed out on our girlie weekend due to her move so Ingmarie and I squeaked in one last date with her at Pig BBQ Joint in the new Atrium building downtown Victoria.

Um, holy shiz. Deeeelish and filling. I’ve been hearing about Pig for eons…as it started out as a hole in the wall, then moved up, then up some more. I was pretty stoked about finally getting to go there (even if it did mean giving up salad for another day!). 

The menu is actually pretty extensive (the girls both had the amazing looking fried chicken) but I opted to stick with the traditional pulled pork meal for my first visit.  It came with corn bread, whipped butter, and my choice of coleslaw or beans…but I wanted both so just paid the extra $.

It may not look like it’s huge, but I was soooo full about 1/3 of the way in.  I ate to the half way mark because it was tasty but eventually succumbed to packing it up to bring home.  This actually made me happy because I have now scored two full meals for under $15. Wooo.

The pork was definitely my favourite part…so tender and tangy. Corn bread isn’t my favourite but theirs was tasty especially with the delicious butter business.  The coleslaw was fabulously crisp and crunchy (I’m more of a creamy coleslaw gal but it still tasted fab) and the beans were pretty much awesome.  More like a dish of sweet mixed bean chili with all kinds of tomatoes and onions and such going on.

I washed it all down with a fun soda… Boylan’s Birch Beer.  Yum.

After that I really needed a nap, but back to work with me instead.  I was full all afternoon but eventually decided I a caffeine hit was necessary so I busted into my Spicy Mandarin Silk Road tea (using my cute new bumble bee tea ball!). 

My evening plans had been to get fresh groceries, hit the gym for an hour of cardio and calorie burning, and to devour a bigass salad….but I was presented with the offer of a movie date I couldn’t turn down.  I’ve been looking for someone to see The Fighter with since it came out and my friend Ray was up for the show so I rearranged my schedule and made it happen.

Squeeeeezed in a 40 minute gym trip which included a quick row, a quick run, and a quick set of core work.  Skipped the groceries, ate a banana for dinner, and complemented all of that with movie theatre popcorn and a post-movie glass of wine.

Not at all healthy but fun nonetheless.  Maybe today I’ll finally eat a vegetable.  We’ll see. :)

iTrip

I will compile a list of the suggested tunes (keep them coming!) when I get back from my girlie weekend but in the meantime I ended up spending my iTunes gift card on some car tunes.  Blame it on good advertising.

iTunes sent me an email of what’s new and I immediately gravetated to the new single by Mother Mother.  The Stand. 

Which led to the purchase of their previous album. O My Heart.

Which led me to purchase the Metric album I meant to purchase ages ago. Fantasies.

Which somehow led to a Katy Perry album. Teenage Dream.

And well, let’s just say I had to top my account with my MasterCard.

Merry Christmas 2009 to me.  Thanks Mom!