i got hooked UP!

afternoon gals! [and guys? meh.. doubt it] i am sure we are all equally stoked at the fact that it is friday.. well maybe not susan, but the rest of you are probably with me with the sigh of relief that comes at the end of the week!

sooo.. as far as my title goes.. i got an ULTRA AMAZING BIRTHDAY PACKAGE FROM DANICA!

uhm.. how adorable is this? and how sweet, thoughtful, kind and fabulous?! danica is the bees knees! she knows i have a (not so) secret obsession with TJ’s and am seriously struggling with a lack there of here in utah.. so she threw together the most fantastic TJ’s package! i had told her the items i liked, but that mostly i really loved trying new things that i had never had the chance to try.

let’s take a closer look…

first up was the cute card, she knows i am a sucker for the pooches!

and then it was time to dig into the goods!

these are some mixed nuts that taste like a PB & J! *wow* i hadn’t tried the other stuff yet but i knew this was my FAVORITE thing in the whole box. seriously, soo good. for reals. TJ shoppers – must buy. they are vegan i think too, i read the label.. i will have to let my homeboys try them out!

next up was some wasabi trail mix and i loove spicy stuff so this was a treat! the odd part was it included cranberries which i never expected would be good wasabi-fied.. but sure enough i liked them! but i do have to say i like the local wasabi fried peas better, i think i will throw my peas into the mix because i like the cranberries+nuts in the TJs pack!

then we (my roomies and i) broke into the peanut butter filled pretzels.. how did danica know i hate salt?! haha maybe she didn’t, but the fact that these had no salt on the pretzel made me extra excited because i am always picking the salt off of my pretzels! these came in as a close second fave.

next i sampled these little good for you chocolate chip cookies they have some healthified ingredients in them! i liked them, and i think they would be even better with a little almond milk! it would be hard to keep the servings to a minimum though, they just pop right in my mouth so easy..

so i put those bad boys away and tried another item.. raspberry fruit leather! marshall stole most of it from me but i was able to have a few bites and loved it! i can’t wait to try the other kinds. i am going to throw them in my car for on-the-go snackage!

i also got some cute alphabet pasta, bbq pop chips, spicy chai mix (i LOVE chai!), red pepper spread (featured in my lunch below!), and pineapple salsa!

i was so stoked that i had only tried ONE of these items out of all of them! (the salsa, which i really really like a lot but i’m out of!). thank you SO MUCH DANICA! such a great birthday surprise!! xoxo

after all that sampling i decided i better get my butt in gear and do some shred.. i was also planning on going to the gym for a weight session but marshall had showed up at my place without warning! there went my plans for the gym and making an extravagant dinner! if it was just any other night i would have stuck with my plans, but the boyfriend leaves today for anaheim so he wanted to take me on a date. *awe* he’s cute.

i was hungry but we had to catch a movie so i quickly made a protein shake with chocolate protein powder, soy milk (gotta use up the last of it and then i am trying to cut out the soy as per hangry heather’s challenge), 1/2 a frozen banana, some ice and a sprinkle of unsweetened cocoa pow!

then we were off to see “up”! i hadn’t seen previews for this movie because i dont watch tv (unless it is the food network..duh). turned out that when we got to the theater the movie we were there for wasn’t the 3d version, and psh, who doesnt wanna hang with the 3d?! so we got tickets to the later show and had some time to kill.

we journeyed up the road to a coffee shop/crepery called the greenhouse effect. they have really REALLY good sweet and savory crepes. it reminds me of the creperies i’d frequent when living in london. although nothing compares to those ones.. there was just something about those british bakers that made the crepes outstanding! but yeah, this spot is a close second.

i ordered a coffee but then someone held a gun to my head and i had to order a pizza crepe! woops! haha, no shame.

i ate the smaller half of the gooey goodness that is the pizza crepe.

and had this coffee.

and then i had to photograph marshall’s strawberries & cream crepe that he ate so fast i couldn’t get a bite i resisted sampling. i bet it was good!

then we threw on our 3d spectacles and checked out the flick. cute times twenty two. seriously. i can recommend it to the young and the old!

no more food entered my mouth until ten AM today, i was too busy this morning to get a proper early bfast in. bummer. BUT when i did find time to eat, i was happy. i chose a good balance of protein, carbs & healthy fat :)

1/2 double fiber EM + PB & 1 egg+1 white+morningstar sausage patty scramble! and coffee.

still trying to work out the settings on my camera to work with my flooourescent office lighting. i’ll get there.

so when you guys eat a savory and sweet component for bfast, do you alternate between the two or eat all the savory then the sweet? i did the latter. the peanut buttery melty muffin was like my first dessert of the day!

yuhm.

work work work, yadda yadda yadda. lunch!

i hooked up a pizza wrap for lunch with my new red pepper spread! i am pretty sure this is the red goodness k uses for her kiss sandwich, no?

this bomb dot com-ness included the spread, a flatout, some turkey peperoonios, green peppers and mushrooms. that is my favorite pizza combo, by the way. pepperoni, green pepper & mushrooms. i could eat it all day.. hot, cold, morning, night. love it.

oh, i heated the wrap in the microwave before putting it on the plate. it was i piping hot bundle of deliciousness. i LOVED the red pepper spread!! yummmm.

i had to get my veggies in as well, so i went with some cauliflower, carrots & cukes with a big ol’ glob of hummus, of course.

i was sad when lunch was gone.

i washed it all down with the h2o. the only thing i drink aside from water is coffee and an occasional unsweetened iced tea if i am out to eat. i hate drinking calories, i LOVE water..it is honestly my favorite drink.. and i just don’t care to drink soda or juice or anything else really. this is an added bonus because water is zeros across the board. i always wondered why they put nutrition labels on the bottled water…hmm. do you guys drink a lot of calories through out the day or mainly stick with water?

sidenote: a customer just called to schedule with me and i had to give them my name to call me back. i said it SEVEN TIMES and then they asked me to spell it. so i spelled it. and then i spelled it again. and then i spelled it a third time, v-e-r-y-s-l-o-w-l-y and he’s like.. “what was the first letter again?”.. me: “J”. to which he waits a few seconds before muttering out.. “ja-neh-tha??”. no sir, like i said the seven times before…“JA-NEEEE-THA”. sigh. is it that hard? really? is it??

in other news!!~~~

• the lovely danica is having a giveaway! for some crunchy chip goodness :D
• today is national gingerbread day as well as national doughnut day! pick your poison carefully.
• i know this is probably the oldest news ever, but it is new to me.. i stumbled upon nate’s blog stalking blog about bloggin. um, gold mine.
  
• and finally, tomorrow is national applesauce cake day! all you vegans out there bust out your aprons and your kitchenaids.. because replacing eggs with applesauce in cake recipes is basically the cleverest vegan swap around!
  

alright that is enough out of me! i am going to go do some reconciliations in quickbooks (be jealous, be oh so jealous) and then hit the gym and weigh in my options for tonight’s fun! hope you all have a fab friday night!