Fridays are always hard. You are squirming in your seat till the clock strikes 5:00 (5:30 for me). You can't focus because thoughts of your freedom are slowing creeping in, pushing out productivity and responsibility. And there's an electricity in the air that makes everyone more talkative and keeps every coworker in a good mood. …
Celebration Time
So apparently I have a birthday coming up soon. With everything that is going on in my life right now I honestly forgot that I turn 25 this month. So at work we celebrated all of the August birthday's with some pizza and cake. (yes - in my office we gather around an enormous …
Getting in Gear
Sometimes when I wake up all I want is a leftover piece of cold pizza. Well we all know that that isn't going to happen because, 1. I can't eat cheese and 2. I can't remember the last time I had a real piece of pizza for dinner for their to even be leftovers. So …
What I Didn’t Eat Wednesday
Today is supposed to be a post about what I ate yesterday (WIAW), just as I do every Wednesday. However, yesterday I was not eating particularly unique or interesting foods. In fact, they were my typical foods, cottage cheese, banana and nut butter, luna bar...because I was more focused on my follow up doctor's appointment …
smorgasbord
When you come home from work and you are starving and open the fridge and want it all. So first you grab the broccoli to steam, then put the sweet potato in the microwave, then cook up some eggs, throw all of this together in the container holding the leftover roasted corn and top with …
Summer Sunday Supper
While I don't live on the east coast where humidity and high temperatures plague the air, it is still Summer in the Bay Area and when it's Summer people tend to gather around good food with good friends. And that is exactly what we did! We popped the bubbly with some refreshing blueberries and Dave …
Healing
When you have a broken hip you do a lot of lying around and snuggling, like this: And being taken out by dear friends, like her: And going out for family dinners to eat yummy food, like this: You also do a lot of thinking about the time before your accident, the actual traumatic …
Breaking News!
No...I can't magically walk again (not yet!), but for all of you almond lovers out there take a look at this! "Almonds may have 20% less calories than previously thought" So go head almond-fanatics - DIG IN!
No Pain No Gain
Since Monday's PT session I have done my glute, quad and hamstring exercises several times. And while some moves can be quite uncomfortable, already a handful are much more manageable and it's easier to move my legs in certain directions. All of this extra exercising made me quite hungry at work yesterday and without a …
Routines
Yesterday was my first FULL day of work in a month. A MONTH! Wild. Up until this point I was doing half days, which was a great way to ease back into my normal routine of work. It's hard not to have a daily routine with a 9-5 job (or in my case before 8am …
Almond Jay 