I Walk In This World

Morning kids.

Your very last GIVEAWAY Reminder!  The contest ends tonight at 8pm EST.

Ack…LOST!  I won’t reveal any spoilers for you slow pokes who haven’t watched it yet (ahem).  I will just state that I am still reeling.  What the dickens I going to do without this show for the next nine months?! 

Breks this morning was a total rush job, but still good.

Piled together with my work gear…

• whole wheat mini bagel with fried eggwhites + peppers/mush/kale + swiss + 1 slice Applegate Farm ham + HOT sauce
• COFFEE
• kiddie vitamin (grown up ones make me sick)

I did eat this in my car, yes.  But.  I made it to work On Time.

Pre-LOST last night, the hubz and I spent an hour assembling ONE of our new night stands.  Thank god for him b/c I am completely incompetent at  understanding complex manual assemblage instructions.  My sister inherited those genes.  I did not.  All I ever manage to do is screw things together and hold things straight for the hubz to assemble.  I’m a good helper. 

Din was outstanding and 1 of my fav recipes.

At the table…

• crockpot creamy buffalo & white bean chicken over wild rice
• tossed spinach salad with cukes + carrots + maters + avocado + goat cheese + cranberries + almonds + lf rasp/walnut dressing
• water

Din was H-O-T but so SO good.  Definitely “more-ish” as the husband says. 

During dinner Hubz and I caught up on our lives.  We do so many extra curricular things, that dinner time is our catch up time.  Yesterday he had breakfast with the Independent candidate running for NJ Governor this year.  It was a very successful meeting and I’m excited at what’s to come. 

Are there any interesting political races in your neck of the woods this year?

Bizzy bees need to work now.   

Hilly dog had a bath before work this morning.  It was impossible to snap pics of her whilst getting bathed, so all I have are some after shots of her pretty, puffy, damp self.

Breks today was a repeat bowl of Tuesday’s new cereal. 

In the earthy brown bowl…

• 3/4 cup Nature’s Path Optimum Slim
• 1/4 PB Puffins
• unsweetened blueberries & coconut
• 3 almonds
• skim milk

Very chewy and whole-food tasting.  I like it a lot.  I don’t think the hubz would though…not sweet enough for him.  And it keeps me full.  I ate this at 8:30 am and it’s 12:15pm now, and I’m just approaching hunger signals.  Pretty impressive, I think.

Last night’s date was fun but the event was total Krap.  I won’t go into details here other than to see I heard a lot of the same boring political rhetoric that gets nothing accomplished, and saw a lot of self-promoting.  Basically an event for people to donate $$ and pat themselves on their backs for faux good citizen & community stewardship.  It was hard not to frown, publicly, at the krap I was hearing.  Definitely counter to real change and what it takes to get real action accomplished…stuff I’ve learned thru grassroots organizing.

At least there was a bar…

And a pretty table with pretty flowers and a pretty meal.

• salad with heirloom tomatoes, feta, and walnuts (drizzled with 1 T of garlic basalmic vin
• whole grain bread (good!)
• vegetarian dinner of pastry wrapped lentils in an Italian based flavor (oregano, garlic, pepper, olive oil) with onions and zucchini
• 2 club sodas & vodka

I ate the salad, 1 piece of bread, and ate 1/3 of that pastry before scraping out the lentils and just eating them.  It was quite nice and looked far better than the chicken/filet combo that all the meat-eaters were served.  Mass-cooked meat is not my idea of fine dining.  I did not eat that lovely coconut pastry back there behind my salad plate.  I wanted to, but figured it wasn’t worth the cals & fat.

Handsome husband!

A few of you have asked about my camera.  Here it is.

Time to eat lunch now and go for a stroll.

The following is what happens when my husband drinks too many of those thingies down there…

The dog gets not only her OWN chair, but corn on the cob too.  I believe his words were “look hon, she’s eating it the right way!”

He’s a proud (drunk) Dad.

The cookout was heaps of fun.  It had been a while since getting to hang with BIL and his girlfriend, so it was great catching up and chatting (and having a few…).

My black bean bison burger was outstanding, BUT, not fully cooked.  It was too mushy, which skeeved me out.  I shoulda left it on the grill longer.  So FYI for those of you making homemade bean burgers, be sure they are well done.  Because if you use egg to make the burgers (to hold them together), and you DON’T grill them til they’re well-done, you end up home sick like I am today.

Great grilled corn, great burger, but bad not-fully-cooked-egg-inside-the-burger.

Remember yesterday I said I was going to sit on the porch with a beer and a book?  It was lovely.  Be sure to note my husband’s green thumb (flower pots!).

Ok, time to do some blog work.  And recover.  And drink water to flush this foulness out of my body.

C yuns later.

Morning kids.

Busy day for me, work-wise, and prepping for tomorrow’s Auction and Bake Sale (!).

Breks today was awesome all because of 2 words…Unsweetened Coconut!!

In the orange bowl…

• a hefty handful of Nature’s Path Maple Pecan Crunch
• dried unsweetend blueberries
• 3 chopped pecans
• spoonful of unsweetened coconut

Look, I didn’t even need a chocolate PB spoond today.  The unsweetened coconut tastes like what coconut should taste like.  It’s still sweet(ish), but REAL tasting.  A beautiful addition to my amazing bowl of cereal.

I had a very long political meeting yesterday, which I’m not ready to go into on my blog yet.  But I will give mayjah props to my husband for organizing the FIRST State-wide meeting of grassroots political groups here in NJ since we all got President Obama elected.  We’ve created a grassroots group, CHANGE, if you’re interested to see what part of my other life is about.

Breks yesterday was a big one b/c I wanted to fuel up the hubz for his/our big meeting. 

At the table…

• Low fat blueberry pancakes with REAL maple syrup
• Morningstar Farms veggie sausage patty
• grapefruit with a sprinkle of raw sugar
• COFFEE

I don’t have any pics of food the rest of the day b/c we were too busy politicking.  When I’m involved with that part of my life, I am probably going to have to push the pause button on my blog.  Only for a few hours or so, but still.  Didn’t want anyone to think I’d gone MIA.

I also don’t have pics of Din from Saturday night b/c I was too pissed off to photo.  We tried the Chinese place in our new town.  I ordered spicy tofu, listed on the menu in the Vegetables section (meant to be Vegetarian).  Yeah, the sauce it came in was FILLED with bits of pork.

*gag*

It went right in the garbage and I grumbled and acted pissy for a good 10minutes.  Heated up a leftover black bean burger, mashed it on some toast, and had WAY too many beers on the side.

Be back later to update about the Auction and Bake Sale!