Whole 30 Challenge. Day 1.

Started whole 30 today. I'm hungry. That is all.

I made a version of my favorite salad to cheer me up a tish. Few people have asked what's in it/how to make it so I documented it this time. Basically it's a bunch of veggies shredded and put into a bowl. When I'm not doing whole 30 I add feta cheese and dried cranberries. The good kind with added sugar. Ohh the good ole days..

Anyway, this is everything I put in it: 

So that's raspberries (in place of cranberries), pears (I only used one),

broccoli (I used half of what's shown), and the star of the show - brussel sprouts.

Oh except for the chopped almonds that were toasting away. Mmm.. as Rachael Ray says, "Your nose will know when they're done." Ohh yeah.

Anywhoser, then you step over your dawg who is a total ham and wants you to love and feed her and take pictures of how beautiful she is. No such luck dawg. 

Damn it man! Fine. You win this round.

Anyway, after that you will peal the first layer off the brussel sprouts, this isn't really necessary but I do it because they have weird spots on the first leaf. Exibit A:

Then cut the heads off two stalks of broccoli and mandolin those guys. When that's done, start mandolin-ing the sprouts. This part is annoying. Sorry about that. Then you cut your pear into chunks and mandolin that as well. The pear seems to want to stick in clumps so I stop periodically and break it up so I don't have huge globs of pears at the end. Then you're done mandolin-ing! So add the toasted almonds and you're almost done. At least the messiest part is done. Oof. What mess.

I thought that looked kind of boring so I added to chopped raspberries. I guess I'm used to have the pop of color from the delicious cranberries. Oh sweet deliciousness.

But anyway, then you're going to take some preserves or jam or whatever. I used some jam that I got from the farmers market with no added sugar. I was going to use apple sauce because I thought that would be better but no dice; it had a lot of added sugar. Damn you high fructose corn syrup.

You're almost done! Now just whisk that with some olive oil. If you're cool you'll have a super fancy whisk like me.

And then you get this bowl of goodness. Though admittedly not as delicious as when you add sweetened cranberries and feta cheese. But still, not bad.

Today.

Ohh lord today.

6:00 am: Wake up, pour coffee, have two sips before getting dan to help me take the dogs out.
7:00am: Getting dressed for class
7:30am: On the way to class. Morning traffic. Annoying people.
8:00am: Test in Human Sexual Behavior (PSYC 300).
8:45am: Leave classroom feeling defeated.
9:00am: Dan texts me about getting new car insurance. FML.
9:30am: Oophie (grandmother) calls to remind me about taking her to the doctor.. for the 10th time in the past 3 days. Wants to know if I'm awake yet. UHM YES, I HAVE BEEN UP FOR A WHILE NOW.
10:00am: Pay water bill. Paid $150, still owe $62. Bill is in dads name and he doesn't seem to want to transfer it to us.. so I have to go pay in person.. and am often late.
10:20am: Leave to get Oophie for her 11:00am appointment.. she wanted me at her house by 10:30.. the place is literally a 10 minute drive from her house. Or mine.
10:40am: We arrive. And wait. Oophie talks about black people trick or treating (whilst an African American woman sits infront of us). Oophie talks about how large one woman is. Whilst woman is in ear shot. And other larger woman is definitely in ear shot.
11:00am: She gets called back. There is a God.
11:15am: I remember I got a bill for my last appointment, like a week ago, and my insurance should have covered it. So I go ask to speak with someone. And do. And it wasn't cleared up. That reminds me.. I still need to figure this out.. grr.
11:30am: Nurse comes out and explains to me my grandmother is past due for a mamogram and I should probably be keeping up with her doctors appointments seeing as she's too old to do that and doesn't remember when she's had them.
11:45am: Call mom and have to scream at her due to low signal in the OB/GYN's office.. the other patrons so loved that. She tells me to go ahead and make an appointment for Oophie, so I do.
12:00pm: Leave doctors office.
12:05pm: Arrive at bank so Oophie can do something and get me a roll of quarters for the meter (SWEET). She told me it was the next turn like 234545654 times. We made it safely.
12:15pm: Publix to pick up her prescriptions. This take a hot minute because Oophie somehow manages to convince the lady she's Lucy. Le sigh.
12:30pm: Walk Oophie to door, head to psychology study for a point of extra credit.
12:45pm: I am early. FML.
12:50pm: The people get there. Take impossibly boring text where I read paragraphs on a screen with my head on one of those things where your chin rests on one piece and your forehead on another? Made my back hurt. Took an hour.
1:40pm: Leave study, pick up snacks at Russel House. Sugar free Redbull and cashews.
2:00pm: Class. Forgot my notebook. Had to borrow paper. Ran out of paper halfway through lecture. Didn't care. Just stopped taking notes. Trying not to fall asleep.
3:15pm: IMPOSSIBLY LONG CLASS OVER.
3:30pm: Having made it back to the Barnwell building, I prepare for another study for extra credit. I'm early, appointment is at 4. Call mom, get nasty looks at people for being loud I presume. Take the convo to the hall, stick my hand in a cobweb trying to sit down. Le sigh. Convo over.
4:00pm: Take another study. Not as horrible as first. Lady says I did really well on some parts :)
4:40pm: Leave study. Walk to car. Ticket on car. Curse a little bit. Make a U-turn and head to the chiropractors office.
4:50pm: At chiropractors office. Tired. They have an extra sheet of paper work for me to fill out. Yay. Receptionist is mean as usual. Beeyatch.
5:00pm: Massage part of appointment.. ahhh..
5:15pm: Traction, ahhh...
5:30pm: Get called back. Chiropractor says I look "grown up" because I'm in jeans and heels. I don't know weither to be flattered or not? Do I usually look like an awkward tween? Probably. She cranks on my neck. Gunna be sore.
5:50pm: Head home. Dan's texting me wondering where I am.
6:00pm: Home. Take shower, get in jams, pour glass of wine.

AHHHH....

And I did this all in 4 inch heels. Why wear heels? Because my grandmother thinks I'm fat and I was trying to look skinny. I thought I'd have time to run home and change at some point. HA. Shoes in question, totally worth it. They made my jeans go from looking like this:



To this:



Oh what's that? You can't tell the difference? STFU.

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Things to smile about today:

1. Got to see Marcus Lattimore.. hims so cute. What's that? You don't know who he is? FOR SHAME. He is the lovely young man attending my fine university who is up for a Heisman this year. Swoon. He was late to class though. He always is. Think it's because he doesn't want to get dry humped.
2. Coming home to clean crates thanks to the hubs. Idk what I would have done if I had to do that today as well.. well actually I probably would have just done it. But nice that I didn't have to!
3. Didn't wake up to dog poo this morning :)
4. I'm not pregnant :)
5. Massage.. ahhh...
6. Wine... ahhh...
7. Victorias Secret jams and a hubs who makes money so I can buy them. And a part time job so I can buy them.

Annoyed.

Ever have one of those days where you're annoyed for kind of no reason? Yeah that's me. And idk why. And hubs wants to "talk it through" and I just want him to go to bed so I can peruse the internet and think about other things besides ho grumpy I am. Then I think, "Oh god. We're gunna get divorced because I don't want to talk about why I'm grumpy." then I think, "Don't be stupid. That's a dumb reason to get divorce." But then... this book I'm reading for my psychology of marriage class is talking about all the shitty things married couples do to each other and how if you lose touch with your spouse you're doomed. And so then I get to thinking we're doomed.. and then... I get annoyed again. Maybe it's the whole first year of marriage crap where you think about everything too much? Or maybe that's just me.. everyone else just has a blissful sex filled 365 days of marriage after the honeymoon. Idk. UGH.

AND. Is it just me or do men WHINE SO MUCH?! His stomach hurts.. ALL. THE. TIME. And I am so OVER IT.

Vent over.

Posting more often.

I am going to become a blogger. Damn it.

Today I was LAZY. But I did make granola from scratch with this recipe except I used raw cashews, almonds, some other kind of date, walnuts and cranberries. So in effect, I really didn't follow the recipe at all. And it definitely tasted like it. So then I made bread in our bread maker which turned out good as it always does. Then I felt like a fat ass and took one of our diet pills from the store I work at and felt like poo poo for the rest of the day. those things make me feel like I'm dying. I swear. but I do loose my appetite. Probably because I think I'm about to vom all over errything. Or like I'm dying of a heart attack. One of the two. Or a combination. I'ma go with a combination.

Not looking forward to going around town and handing out business cards to scrape up some more business for the store. Le sigh. Worst part of my job. But I love getting PAID. Money is awesome. I'm such a gold digger.

Still haven't finished thank you notes. I suck at life. The end.

Mother's Day.

1. Being able to spend Mother's Day with my mom. I know a lot of people wish they could be with their mothers and but do not hat this luxury.
2. Having my mom be my best friend. A lot of people hate their mothers, some with good reason and some without, but I am glad I am not one of those people.
3. My mom likes my husband. That would so suck if I had one of those spouses that everyone hated (especially my mom because that would just kill me).
4. My mom is super cute, hopefully I'll be super cute when I'm 50.
5. VACATION IN A WEEK.

Love you Ma.

1. Warm weather.
2. Johnson and Johnson's baby lotions, cheap and awesome.
3. New phone. I'm digging it.
4. An attic fan. Think I've already done that one but really, it's awesome.
5. Our windows. Our house maybe be old and crappy in many ways, BUT our windows are relatively new and that allows us to open pretty much all the windows in the house for TONS of fresh air!

I just entered alltumbledown's giveaway for free skinrx stuff and I really hope I win. Dan and I are so broke and I'm feeling a bit down about it today. Luckily I did plan our meals for the next two weeks (excluding fridays because duh that's happy hour) and only spend $43 buying all the groceries for it (with a $40 gift card, it was originally $84) yippy!

Now I am off to write thank you notes for said gift card and other wedding gifts.. I'm a little late on the draw with that. Ooops!

Five things.

1. Beer. Said it before but I can't help it, it's just awesome.
2. Pizza. Pretty awesome as well.
3. Summer. Well, I guess technically it's spring, but this weather is BEAUTIFUL.
4. My mom. Love her more than most things.
5. Blankets. And being able to afford them. We have super cute blankets, fuzzy green ones, game cock ones, quilted ones. Good for snuggling on the couch.