04.29.09 Breakfast, Lunch, Snack & Dinner at Church

Happy Hump Day Bloggies!

I got in 8 hours of sleep 12pm-8am.

Woke up, got dressed au naturale, ate some Organic Blueberry Cinnamon + Omega-3 cereal for breakfast and did some housework.

Left around 11am to head over to my mom's to move my sister's old living room furniture set that a friend of hers bought. Ate an EAS Cookies 'n Cream protein bar on the way there.

We got there and loaded up the couch and chaise lounge and her friend's place was only a mile from my mom's house. Her friend Diana's husband was there to help us bring everything into their porch.

Then we went back to my mom's house and loaded up all her bags of yard debris and took them to the compost center.

Untying bags of debris

The photographer

Let it fly!

After we were done there my mom needed us to take her to Target to have two watch batteries replaced. 

Ended up going to two different stores...Roseville and Shoreview because one store had the one and not the other battery. Picked up some 100 cal packs of Cocoa Roast Almonds and had one.

Then we headed over to pickup Angie from work at 1:30pm and drove her friend Abby home. 

Stopped at home and I got a cooler bag for my mom's groceries and Angie changed out of her work clothes, walked our dog and then we went to drop my mom back at home.

Dropped my mom off and headed back out to Jer & Cody's apartment in Burnsville and helped move and pack stuff for a few hours...about 3 truck loads. We left around 4:30pm to head over to church for Oasis night. I ate a snack pack of Kashi crackers to tide me over until dinner.

Traffic was awful and we just made it to church by 5:30pm and I was so famished. 

I had two plates...greek salad, a chicken thigh, tuscan veggies and cottage cheese then another greek salad, chicken thigh and a wheat roll. Drank my Powerade Zero with my meal. Felt much better after that!

Dessert was about a cup of Blue Bunny No Sugar Added Chocolate Chip Cookie Ice Cream.

After dinner we sat around and visited with people for awhile.

Class tonight was the second to the last presentation on the Heroes series. 

Dave Wicklund was the presenter tonight and emphasized the definition of a hero being someone who has clear insight and the irresistable urge to act and focused on a war hero's story.

After class we ran Angie back home so she could go to bed since she works at 5am. 

Dave took me to Cub to pick up a few things. Thomas English Muffins, Whole Wheat Arnold Sandwich Thins, Palak Paneer, Mini Pizzas, Larabars, Spring Water, etc.

Finally got home and put everything away and finished watching the latest episode of Biggest Loser. 

Getting up early tomorrow to go help my mom with stuff and go to Costco to get some grocery shopping done and pick up Ang by 1:30pm.

I hope everyone had a great day!

Today's Calories: 1,670 Carbs: 172g Fat: 67g Fiber: 33g Protein: 109g

04.28.09 Moving Friends, Dinner & Dessert

The rest of the afternoon was quite busy and I was so happy leave for the day! Although I'm off work until Friday morning:)

After I got off work we helped a friend and his son move their things into a storage locker since they were lucky to get out of their lease and only have until noon on Thursday to be out. They will be staying with us for awhile and then moving to Winona, MN.

Got home and I made some awesome Indian food for dinner. Brown basmati rice with lean roast beef, broccoli, punjab eggplant curry, tamarind chutney, whole grain naan and sugar free raspberry ice tea to drink.

Dessert was a no sugar added ice cream sandwich.

I'm going to try and sleep in a bit tomorrow morning;)

Today's Calories: 1,982 Carbs: 267g Fat: 67g Fiber: 34g Protein: 106g

04.28.09 Lunch & Snack

This morning was pretty hectic since it was the first day our group started accepting European UNIX tickets...everything went well though. Also had a lot of normal tickets we usually get and a few websphere recycles.

Took a break at 9:30am and ate my yummy Peanut Butter Cookie Larabar:)

After my break all the way until lunch it was busy with the new European UNIX tickets, legal servers, reporting servers and at the last minute I had to run to Bldg 277 to thumb a WTS server that wouldn't remote restart.

I was hungry for lunch by noontime. It was such a gorgeous 60 degree afternoon and I was so excited to get out...ended up going with some coworkers to OCB and I didn't do too bad.

(Taco Salad - 200 cal, Fish with Green Beans - 220 cal)

(Cucumbers, Tomatoes and Honeydew - 40 cal, NSA Apples - 45 cal)

(Nonfat Frozen Yogurt with a crumbly Sugar Free Cookie mixed in - 250 cal)

My entire lunch was about 765 calories

Got back to work and it finally calmed down a bit and I was able to close a bunch of tickets we were working on. I did drink a lot of water at OCB so I had a quick minibreak;) 

The rest of the afternoon there were quite a few distributed folder and access requests I completed for employees in AD and then we had Siteminder issues again. 

Finally got my 20 min break at 3:40pm and took a nice walk outside<3

Went back in and got myself a snack consisting of the last of my Sweet Potato Chips with the last of my Pineapple Salsa...so sweet and refreshing!

04.28.09 Breakfast

Happy Tuesday all!

Slept for 6 hours...10:30pm-4:30am.

Checked my weight and I didn't gain or lose...still a happy 199.8:)

Got dressed and ready for work...left at 5:30am.

Arrived at work by 5:45am and made myself breakfast which was another bowl of Nature's Path Organic Optimum Rebound Banana-Flax-Almond + Green Tea Cereal with a half cup of Hood Calorie Countdown.

04.27.09 Afternoon Snacks and Dinner at Houlihan's in MSP

After I got back from lunch it was still really busy! There were issues with WTS and another hung server but this time I was able to remotely reboot it. 

A coworker of mine got the next ticket and had to run over to 277 and the KVM switch was actually bad. Throughout the afternoon there were more issues with CMMS, CSMS, Siteminder and USS Shipping. 

It was nice to take a 20 min break at 3:30pm...took a walk and got myself a snack which was a serving of FSTG's Sweet Potato Chips with TJ's Pineapple Salsa.

Work was busy up until the minute I left...around 5:30pm I mixed myself up some Oikos Organic Greek Yogurt with Truvia and Bear Naked Triple Berry Crunch Granola. YUM!

Dave and Ang picked me up at 6pm and we headed out to MSP Airport to meet up with Leeann and Dennis from the JWS Forum at Houlihan's. 

Leeann was just flying back from Europe and had a 4 hour layover on her way back to Canada and wanted to meet up with all of us for dinner. 

Leeann was a really nice, sweet lady and had a many interesting stories from her trip. 

Dennis was quite quirky and entertaining and he thought that I looked like Hot Donna from That 70's show...

Leeann and Dennis

Grilled Rosemary Chicken with Orzo and Asparagus

(560 cal, 30g fat, 5g saturated fat, 30g carbs, 5g fiber, & 53g protein)

Cool sign hanging from their suspended ceiling

Leeann had to board her plane at 9pm so we said our goodbyes. Had to run back to work to retrieve the van...finally got home and went to bed since I work early on Tuesday.

Today's Calories: 1,662 Carbs: 142g Fat: 63g Fiber: 26g Protein: 142g 

04.27.09 Breakfast, Snack & Lunch at KFC - Free Grilled Chicken Day!

Hey everyone...it's Monday again...Manic Monday Morning for me this time - 6 hours of sleep 10:30pm-4:30am.

Might this be the day I break 200?!? YES!!! At last...feast your eyes on this baby! 199.8 - what a sight for sore eyes!

Got dressed for work and dinner tonight with Leeann and Dennis from JWS...wore a cute white outfit for the occasion and packed up my eats for the next few days...

Arrived at work just before 6am and made myself a bowl of Nature's Path Optimum Rebound Banana-Flax-Almond + Green Tea with a half cup of Calorie Countdown and 2 tsp cinnamon.

It was a very busy Monday morning indeed...many distributed site tickets, Citrix, CMMS, CSMS, Blackberry servers. I ended up running over to Bldg 277 since there was nobody there...I love those stairs though! 

Got to take a break at 9:30am and ate my Lemon Larabar...sure hit the spot!

I ended up having to go back to 277 for another issue and got to meet the Citrix support guy, Brian and he was really nice...I feel sorry for the guy because he's usually on call and gets paged in the middle of the night on international and distributed site Citrix issues.

Then I got back and the two people that were working in my group left for lunch and being a Monday and all...it got busy! I managed to call everyone and fix everything I needed to within a minute and a half from noon. Deadlines give me a thrill!

Went out with a few coworkers to KFC for lunch since it's Free Grilled Chicken Day! I got a free grilled chicken thigh...also ate a grilled chicken breast, side salad and water;) 

This entire meal was only 330 calories, 13g fat, 3.5g saturated fat, 50g protein and 760mg sodium.

Had a great time out for lunch...lots of laughs to brighten a sour Monday! 

One of the employees at KFC came up to our table and asked me if I was Finnish because he used to have a girlfriend that looked like me and her name was Lola...lmao! I'm actually Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and German...I guess I'm the Tall Scandahoovian Redhead Gigantica...haha.

04.26.09 Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner at MOA - Opa! Souvlaki

Hi, I hope everyone had a nice Sunday!

Got in 7 hours of sleep...12:30am-7:30am. Picked up Angie from work at 8am.

Came back home and worked on our budget and browsed Sunday ads in my jammies;)

Got dressed for church and ate a Banana Bread Larabar for breakfast.

Got to church at 10:30am and the greeters and everyone were so nice there...running out to vehicles with umbrellas to make sure people didn't get soaking wet. It sure was a great service...the books of Habbakuk and Jeremiah were emphasized. Pastor Roy decided to wear a bright orange shirt to counter the gloomy, rainy day. The songs we sang were contemporarily awesome!

After church we headed to our store of choice, Target of course since Ang works there. She needed to buy more work clothes and wanted to use her discount. 

I bought Dave a new 5 subject notebook for project planning and two boxes of Kashi Pumpkin Pie Fruit & Grain Bars on sale for $3/box plus I had a coupon for $1.50 off two boxes...so $2.25/box. Also tried on a few shirts and bought them.

Got back home and worked on a few things before I left to go meet Sarah at MOA. We ran from store to store for hours and I saw many nice things but nothing that sparkled.

Ended up eating dinner at a Greek place...Opa! Souvlaki.

I got the low carb plate with greek salad, chicken and tzatziki sauce. It was so flavorful and delicious!

After dinner Sarah got a smoothie at Dairy Queen.

I saw that Orange Julius had new Light Smoothies made with Splenda so I asked if there was any added sugar and there is some sugar water in it like the rest of their line so I didn't get one.

There's a new place coming soon called Salad Fusion. Googled it and couldn't find anything but it sounds like my cup of tae.

My sis and I at MOA

We also went to Harry & David. Bought some gifts for Angie's birthday since they had a special B3G1 Free and I had a coupon for 10% off. Got some No Sugar Added Truffles, No Sugar Added Chocolate Covered Cherries, SF Citrus Slices and SF Gummi Bears.

I ate 16 of the Gummi Bears for my treat since I denied myself that Light Smoothie.

Got home and watched the latest episode of Hell's Kitchen. Worked on reimaging my laptop and went to bed early since I'm back to working day shifts;)

Today's Calories: 1,260 Carbs: 96g Fat: 32g Fiber: 23g Protein: 21g 

(I should have eaten a bit more...)

04.25.09 Breakfast, Lunch at Simply Fun Fundraiser, Snack and Dinner at Home

Hi everyone!

Got in 8 hours of sleep 2:30am-10:30am:)

Woke up and just had to weigh myself...I gained exactly one pound from what I ate yesterday!!! Aaargh:(

Took a shower, got dressed for the fundraiser game party and ate a ThinkThin Brownie Crunch Bar for breakfast.

Had a great time at the Fundraiser party...we played many different games that Simply Fun made. First was Take Your Pick then Linkity and last was Eye to Eye and the host presented the other games they sold as well. We ended up purchasing Kahootz!, Farkel & More and a donation for the Simply Caring Foundation. After all the fun we had a potluck. I had a sloppy joe, a half cup of Chex Mix and about a cup of fruit salad.

After the party we hit Home Depot to buy a new compact fridge/freezer combo with the American Express points we cashed in for Home Depot gift cards.

Since I have many readers overseas who cannot believe how tall I am, Dave took a picture of me in front of the Home Depot height chart;)

After Home Depot we went over to Trader Joe's and I picked up a new TJ's Organic 0% Greek Yogurt and a Kind Nut Delight Bar. I crumpled up the Kind Bar and mixed it into my yogurt! Finally bought that Trader Joe's bag that my coworker asked me for.

Then we headed to Brooklyn Park to setup the new fridge/freezer for Grandma. She had a minifridge with a tiny freezer before and she dearly wanted freezer room to be able to put large containers of ice cream and bags of frozen vegetables. She was so thrilled with her new setup but the microwave was too high so Dave came up with the idea of putting it inside her pantry cabinet and it actually fit and was the right height for her!

Took Grandma to Cub for groceries...which, you guessed it...included ice cream and frozen veggies and then I ran into Target for a TV tray for her and picked up a box off 100 cal packs of Cocoa Roasted Almonds.

Had one:)

Then we dropped her off and headed home and for dinner I had two pitas with Kirkland Chicken Breast Strips, shredded Light String Cheese, Hummus & Spinach.

Going to bed fairly early tonight since we're going to church in the morning and I'm hanging out with my sis at MOA!

Today's Calories: 1,550 Carbs: 178g Fat: 56g Fiber: 23g Protein: 103g