Good morning! Lots of exciting stuff happenening in blog land this morning! People moving across the country, quitting jobs, so inspiring! My life, however, is slightly less exciting, but that’s cool.

I declared last night a “sick night” since I couldn’t take a “sick day” at work. I was lazy, and I loved it. I’m usually going a million miles a minute in the evenings, so it was nice to slow down and relax a bit.

After I posted yesterday, I took a bubble bath and enjoyed a good book. Wonderful. Kind of strange to bathe before dinner maybe, but that’s what I did.

Dinner was comfort food. I really wanted soup but I didn’t have the energy or ingredients to make any. So I had a can of sodium-laden Italian-style vegetable soup.

I spiced it up with some hot sauce, but it was still meh. I probably only ate about 1/3 of it.

To go with my meh soup, I had some not meh roasted veggies.  I baked some sweet potato fries out of a bag, because I was too lazy to make my own.

I also had some brussels coated in my homemade Asian dressing.

And of course I dipped in all in organic ketchup!

A very veggieful dinner! And surprisingly, very filling.

After I was done eating I watched two new shows on ABC – Modern Family and Cougar Town. Both VERY funny. It just seems like any sitcoms ABC tries to put out end up failing, but hopefully they’ll at least make it through the season.

At 9 p.m. I went to bed, read for a bit and then passed out long before 10 p.m. I know I’m sick when I go to bed that early, it’s just unlike me. I do feel a little better today though!

See, I told you – very unexciting things going on over here.

Now I’m going to get to work, and try to keep from pondering my life too much. When I see people making their dreams come true it always makes me wonder if I’m doing enough to make mine come true.

And, I’m not always sure exactly what my dreams are, per say. I just know I want to write, I want to enjoy what I do, and I want to move to the East Coast (I have a serious fascination with it). I hope to at least do the latter within the next year.

What are your dreams? Are you currently living them?

Before I get into the food thangs, I have a few things to address.

1. I loved reading ya’lls responses to my questions this morning. One commenter said that she eats sushi to get over being sick. Um… yes please?
2. During this period of time that I am unable to post at lunch, I’ve decided to try yet another posting schedule. I’m going to post my eats throughout the day in the evening after work, and then I’ll post my dinner and night time eats in the morning. I hope that won’t throw anyone off, but I feel like my morning posts are just too lackluster, and I don’t want anyone falling asleep on me!
3. I had a LOT of potassium in my life today, which was completely unintentional. According to this article, potassium is a pain desensitizer, looks like I was doing my neck a favor by eating so much of it, haha.

It all started with a banana.

Is that a banana? Or am I just happy to see you? hehe (I’m on cold meds, fyi)

Later on I had my leftover taco goodness. Black beans are high in potassium, and apparently plantains are higher in potassium than naners. Avocados are also a rich source of potassium. I had a wee bit of the fixins inside one whole wheat tortilla (whole grain foods are also rich in the big P).

And I had the rest in a bowl. This whole meal would have been infinitely better had I remembered to bring hot sauce to work. But I made do.

After eating lunch I decided to run out and buy some cold meds because I was feeling pretty lousy. I got the off-brand, because I’m cheap like that.

I decided to treat myself with a little snacky also. Exhibit A is a Vitamin Water 10 – Multi V.

I actually really like these, even though they are full of artificial stuffs. But hey, I needed the vitamins, right?

Exhibit B is my new LOVER – the Clif Mojo Peanut Butter Pretzel bar.

This is one of those things I wish I had never tasted, because now I will long for them, dream about them, and buy them FAR too often. Good thing they only cost one buckaroo! There was also some potassium up in there too.

Other snacks for the day included a kiwi and some baby carrots.

My appetite really was barely there, but for some reason I still ate as much (if not more) than usual. Food is just really important to me!

Oh and on another note, I definitely recommend eating kiwis apple-style like that as they are so chewy and fibrous, but when wearing a white shirt beware – those furry little buggers will squirt green goo at you. Bad news.

On another another note (no that’s not a typo), I do not plan to start polluting the environment just because I’m packing my lunches now. These bad boys are going home with me to be used again and again.

I had a good time with these little guys at the office today.

I needed to try to massage the pain out of my neck. I think it may have helped a bit, but it’s still so stiff. Ick.

I wasn’t able to go to yoga after work, seeing as how the mere act of bowing my head in Namaste is painful. I tried to tell myself that I was going to go to the gym and do some cardio, but when I discovered that trips to the bathroom were leaving me fatigued I decided against it. I hope one night off is all I’ll need!!

Okay, that was my day! I hope you guys don’t mind the change in my posting schedule. I’ll be back in the morning with a recap of tonight’s eats. Have a good one!

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Goooood morning all! I hope you are splendid. We are halfway through the week, three cheers for that

I’m going to take a brief moment to talk about my “sickness” and then I’m going to move on. I just want to get it out there, in case it gets worse. So if I suddenly disappear for a while, you’ll know I’m down with the sickness and not just a bad blogger.

So, I awoke today feeling yucky (chest congestion, achiness, cough) and I also have some major neck pain. I’m talking near tears when I was checking my blind spot this a.m. I’m going to go ahead and rule out meningitis and say that the two ailments are completely unrelated. However, the fact that I’m experiencing them both at once is leaving me feeling less than peachy.

I still woke up and went about my life as usual though, because those vacation hours aren’t nothing to play around with.

I’ve been chugging water all morning, because liquids are always good for illness. And I had the usual coffee + smoothie b-fast today.

My appetite is pretty meager, but I still packed a plethora of foods for the day: leftover plantain and black bean taco fixins with have an avocado to jazz it up, banana, carrots and kiwi. I’m sure I’ll manage to eat it all somehow

My packed lunch photo presentation is quite lacking, and I do apologize. I need to work on that fo sho.

Lots to do at work today! I’m hoping it takes my mind off the illness and makes the day go by quickly.

I’ll be back this evening with less whine and more food pics, promise!

There are lots of sick bloggies out there right now, and it seems that something is going around – so if you ain’t got it yet get that Vitamin C in now ladies! Save yourself while you still can, haha!

Q’s:

1. How do you prevent sickness?

I try to do so by eating super healthy, sleeping enough, and exercising. Doesn’t always work though

B. Do you get a flu shot every year?

Not me! Scurred of needles plus injecting myself with a virus freaks me out. But I got the flu last year, so….

Well, my body was just all wack-a-doo today. I don’t know what was up. I had a terrible headache for most of the afternoon that eventually induced a stomach ache.

I thought maybe a pear would help.

It was not the freshest pear as maybe you can see from the wrinklage up top (TWSS). Now that I’m thinking about it, maybe the mushy pear caused the stomach ache? Interesting…

I really just could not decide if I should go to yoga or not. I haven’t been in about a month for various reasons, but I was really looking forward to going today. I find it odd how often things stand in the way of me making it to yoga.

So I decided not to let it get me down and just go, and it was great! Except I was that jerk whose cell phone went off during class. I felt terrible!! The class itself was killer and I loved it. My legs are jelly right now

For dinner, I whipped up an old fave but with a different foundation. Mini bagel pizzas!

I used two mini bagels to create four pizzettes.

I didn’t any approp veggies to adorn the pizzas, so I had sliced cukes and carrots that just happened to jump on the plate in that flower shape.

Quick and delicious and easy on the tummy. I enjoyed the meal while watching One Tree Hill and Gossip Girl, of course.

After dinner I caught up with my Grandma and Dad on the telly and now I’m about to enjoy an hour of reading and decompressing before hitting the hay. I think the combo of yoga + pizza cured all my ailments. Yep, definitely.