06.12.09 Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner & Snacks

05.02.09 Dinner at Chin's Asia Fresh

The afternoon was quiet up until a server's hard drive failed in the other server building. 

It was strange that we didn't get any alerts on it but the server admin called in and said to replace the 34GB failed drive with a 73GB 15K SCSI. So I went and got one from our hardware room and went over to the other building but the server ended up having the new drive bays which didn't fit the standard hard drives we normally use. 

I had to run back to our building and get one of the new Dell 73GB 15K SCSI hard drives.  Went back to the other building and tried to put it in and it didn't fit either...so I called the admin and first he apologized for not telling me it was the new type of drive, then he had me check several labels on the new drive and it turned out the disk drive had the wrong label on it and was actually a SAS drive! Put a post-it on that drive so they would relabel it and checked all the markings on the other drive and finally got it installed in the server.

Went back over to my building and grabbed a no sugar added cup of peaches for a snack.

By the time I got back to my desk it was time for the usual server checks and we got those done quickly and I was overjoyed to be leaving for the day!

Got home and Dave and Ang were cleaning out the truck. They hauled things over to our new storage locker today. Dave found a good quality bandsaw on Craigslist for $60 out in Plymouth. So we hopped in the truck and drove out there and had to stop for cash...found a Lund's with a Wells Fargo ATM in Hopkins.  

Got to the seller's place and he had an awesome shop set up in his garage. He said he bought almost everything for his shop off of Craigslist. We could smell really good food from the garage because his girlfriend was making dinner. Loaded up the band saw and headed over to Chin's Asia Fresh in Minnetonka.

Chin's is one of my favoritest places to eat! We had the Lettuce Wraps for our appetizer, Thai Peanut Chicken Stirfry with brown rice for our main course and Cream Cheese Wontons with Apricot dipping sauce and a fortune cookie (my second one today) for dessert.

My fortune read: "Nothing will get in the way of your desire to succeed. Keep at it!"

After dinner we headed home and ended up stopping first at Payless Shoes...I bought two pairs of heels! 

Here's my favorite of the two! Will look great with my BCBG dress!!!

I tried them on...they do look great!

Next we went to SuperTarget for batteries, dog shampoo and no sugar added ice cream sandwiches. I ate one.

Got home around 10pm...gotta get some sleep since I work in the morning!

Today's Calories: 2,500 Carbs: 302g Fat: 105g Fiber: 39g Protein: 120g

04.03.09 Breakfast, Lunch at Culver's and Dinner at Chin's

6:30am Peanut Butter Cookie Larabar

10:15am Thomas English Muffin with Organic Peanut Butter and Apricot Jam with an Aquafina Wild Berry FlavorSplash

12:15pm Culver's Chili and a NSA Frozen Custard with a Diet Cola

4:15pm Food Should Taste Good The Works Chips with Wholly Salsa

5pm Oikos Organic Greek Yogurt with Bear Naked Fit Vanilla Almond Crunch Granola

8:30pm Chin's Asia Fresh - Thai Peanut Lettuce Wraps and Thai Peanut Chicken Stirfry with brown rice and a diet soda with lemon

9pm Chin's Asia Fresh Cream Cheese Wontons with Apricot Dipping Sauce

Today's Calories: 2,588 Carbs: 321g Fat: 118g Fiber: 54g Protein: 102g Yikes!

02.14.09 Valentine's Day Brunch at Chin's Asia Fresh

Got in 6 hours of sleep...8am to 2pm. Woke up and finished writing in Valentine's cards and wrapping gifts. Got dressed up and Dave, Angie, Cody & I headed out to the van about 3:10pm...

Arrived at Chin's around 3:50pm and we ordered our food which was an order of Thai Peanut Lettuce Wraps, an order of Cream Cheese Wontons, 3 orders of Thai Peanut Chicken Stirfry, Double Meat with Brown Rice, 3 sodas and a Smiling Lotus Plate with Lemon Sauce and Root Beer for Cody.

Lettuce Wrap Platter

My two Lettuce Wraps (150 cal)

My Thai Peanut Chicken Stirfry (only ate half of this) (450 cal)

My Cream Cheese Wontons (little Apricot Dipping Sauce) (200 cal)

After eating we opened our cards and gifts. Dave and I got Cody and Angie each a really nice card. Also bought Angie a Heart filled with Sugar Free Candy, Sugar Free Peeps, a Sugar Free Marshmallow Heart, Sugar Free Sweethearts, a Heart Notepad, Heart Pens and Valentine Pencils with Heart Erasers. 

Cody got a kit of Blowpens, two smaller hearts with chocolate in them, Sugar Free Peeps, a Sugar Free Marshmallow Heart and Sugar Free Sweethearts. 

I got Dave a card and he got me a card and a rose. We split the remainder of the Sugar Free Valentine Candy: SF Jolly Ranchers, SF Coffee Nips, 2 Sugar Free Heart Peep packs, 2 Sugar Free Marshmallow Hearts and 2 boxes of Sugar Free Sweethearts.

Left Chin's at 4:45pm and arrived home about 5:10pm and I put things away and headed to work.

Big server maintenance night...we are going to have several alerts that will keep us hopping all night long.

Around 9pm I ate my box of Sugar Free Sweethearts...I don't think I'll actually be hungry until later.