Outside Lunches are Finally Coming Back

Alex was kind enough to share one if his sours with me and even to let me take a picture of it! Thanks Alex!

Lunch

It really is a beautiful day out today so I sat in the sun and enjoyed my little lunch. Kiwi sliced up, baby carrots, apple slice up, and a peanut butter pretzel Mojo Clif bar.
I just needed to show how tasty these bars are. There were so many little peanut butter chips on this one, woohoo!
After lunch I whipped out a piece of my favorite gum: Five: Flare (cinnamon).
I'm blogging from the library ooo! I have choral conducting in thirty minutes so I think I'll go practice a little.

My eyeball is still twitching :( I have been trying to have less caffeine lately by having chai tea instead of coffee in the morning...I hope this twitch isn't related! It makes me want to just close my eyes and go to sleep (like I did yesterday) but I can't do that, there's too much to do! I may cave and have some coffee just to see if it makes any difference.

Off to the practice room!

Lunch With Alex and Aaron

Lunch

My buddies Alex and Aaron invited me to eat lunch with them after class. Woohoo! For lunch I packed up some of last night's Quinoa Vegetable Paella whose recipe came from Fatfree Vegan Kitchen. I snagged some salt and pepper for free from the Corner Store on campus while we heated up our lunches.

I also grabbed a Pomegranate Paradise from Jamba Juice using the gift card my mommy gave me for Valentine's Day. It was perfect!
All together now!
There's Alex! He was very proud of his homemade eggplant parmesan with multicolored pasta. It looked at smelled really good.
There's me!
There's the boys! Aaron plays cello, Alex plays viola, and I'm the soprano. We are quite the musical group.
Eating Kiwis with the skin just like an apple is so satisfying for some reason! It tasted sweeter to me.
Savannah and I have a date to make the most amazing Oatmeal Cookies we can come up with later tonight! I am sooo looking forward to it!

Dinner post coming soon!

Shabbos Weekend, Kindergarden Friends!

I was in such a rush to get out of the house on Friday morning that I didn't think to grab any of my tasty snacks. Luckily I had this fruit strip in my bag which I ate during studio.

Doesn't my car look all nice and shiny!? I was so happy to finally get it back even though I do have to bring it back again to get something else fixed. It's always one the or another I guess. I went to LA this weekend to have Shabbos with the Zarets and even my brother flew in from Sacramento!

I knew I needed to keep a lot of room in my stomach because they try to stuff you to the brim on Shabbos. But I didn't want to starve on the drive down. I picked up a Carrot juice smoothie from Blenders and a chocolate chip Clif Bar.
Orange!
So I didn't take any pictures of the food on Shabbos but rest assured everything was amaaaazing and I did my best to keep myself in check!

After Shabbos Eric and I went to visit some friends who we met when I was in kindergarden! Alex and I went to kindergarden together, Dena is his younger sister. They made a special vegetable dinner for the weirdo vegan as I'm known there haha. It was sooooo delicious!

Juice to drink which is a treat for me!
Afterwards, Dena and I were on the prowl for some sweets! Cocoa puffs hit the spot.
Breakfast was some reheated grilled veggies and an english muffin with apricot pineapple jam. Oh! and coffee with almond milk. Alex provided the stuffed animal and the gang sign lol!
Lunch was a little pasta and some marinara sauce from an Italian Deli.
I don't know why I haven't mentioned it yet but I LOVE this gum! It's the cinnamon flavor by 5 and I use it all the time to give my mouth something to do and to stop me from eating more once I've finished.
Dena had a benefit piano recital that afternoon that we went to and she was great! There was a little reception after and I grabbed some punch. It was grapefruit, cranberry, and sprite tasting.
Early dinner pre drive home meal was awesome!!
When I got home I had the last of my oatmeal cookies smothered in peanut butter and chocolate chips!
I still wanted something so Kelsey suggested protein. I made a simple sandwich with fake sausage and hempseed hummus.

I had an awesome weekend and I totally enjoyed myself but I'm feeling a little off. I feel like I've lost sight of my normally second nature healthy habits. This week my small goals are going to be

1. drink more water
2. eat more fruit and veggies INSTEAD of sweets
3. exercise AT LEAST twice

If I can do that this week I will feel accomplished.