What a day

What a loooooonnnng day, I mean. It started with me getting up at 7am to study for my 10:30 am exam, which was fine. It’s not unusual for me to be up at 7. I even managed to stay off my computer except to post my breakfast!

So, about 10am I decide to check my e-mail one last time before heading out to write my exam. What do I see? A message that the power is out on the whole west side of campus and all exams scheduled there were postponed until later this week! Of course my exam had to be in one of those buildings AND I’m moving 8 hours away tomorrow morning! Needless to say I got an e-mail to my prof sent out pretty quick (after calling my boyfriend and then my mom and having a small meltdown!) I am usually a pretty calm, go with the flow type of person, but this time, I bluntly told my prof that I would not be in here later than tomorrow morning and that I had to write the exam today if at all possible. Usually, I am against communicating in this way because I do believe that politeness gets you much further, but I didn’t want to leave him any wiggle room to try to convince me to stay an extra 3 days.

As I waited for the reply, I managed to work on some more sample problems which may have ended up helping me in the end. At about 2 pm, I finally got the reply that I was waiting for. I could write my exam privately if I could be in the secretary’s office by 2:30! I threw my books into my backpack and half walked, half ran to school Yes, this was completely unnecessary, I arrived at 2:10!

After all that, I came home very happy to be done school for the year!

Amidst all that commotion, I ate a bowl of soup at 10, when I thought I needed some energy for my exam:

Then I ate a bean cutlet, okra and mushroom stir-fry with Cajun seasoning. It was really good during my time of stress

My original supper plan was leftover dal, which I started to eat. After a few bites though, I knew this wasn’t what I wanted. My taste buds are a bit off with this cold and it just didn’t taste as good to me as it did yesterday.

Instead, I decided to brave the rain, umbrella in hand, and head to the grocery store to treat myself. I decided on a big bowl of fresh fruit to get in some extra vitamins and antioxidants, some plain probiotic frozen yogurt to soothe my throat, and a cheesecake splurge to celebrate the end of the semester.

Fruit and berry bowl (about 2 to 2.5 cups of fresh pineapple and plump, juicy berries)

Brownie cheesecake – need I say more?

Frozen yogurt – I wasn’t really thinking when I ate out of the container with this cod. I guess the rest will go to waste because I don’t want to re-infect myself with more germs later (besides, I don’t think it wil survive the 8+ hour car ride!)

I also got some baby carrots to snack on tomorrow and a yogurt, granola and berry bowl for breakfast tomorrow. I guess I should post that now since I’m unplugging my computer tonight!

I should add that I won’t be blogging for a couple of days, due to the move. It’s going to take a while to unpack and set up my computer and I want to spend my remaining time with my friends and family! See you in a couple of days!

Vitamin C Anyone?

I think this might turn into a full blown cold – I’ve got the runny nose and sore muscles now

I’ll spare you the details and get right to the food part… I ate a bunch of times today!

Lunch was a cup of noodle soup, of the store-bought variety. Not the healthiest, but easy and satisfying. I love noodles so this was right up my alley!

Mid afternoon snack was some mango and a pink orange. Looks like grapefruit but tastes like orange – the best of both worlds in my opinion! I thought it would look pretty in a glass:

Supper was HappyHerbivore’s Red Lentil Dal, made with green lentils because that’s what I had. It was yummy served with some rice and a dollop of plain yogurt. I started to eat before I realized that I hadn’t (a) taken a photo or (b) added the yogurt, so the photo’s a bit messy!

Evening snack is a “chickpea cutlet” made with the last of my adzuki beans and some okra. Two comments here… First, I really would have liked to find my potato masher because I couldn’t get the beans mashed with my fork, so the cutlets are a bit crumbly. Second, I’ve never had okra before so I was happy to try something new I cut up the cutlet and sautéed it with the okra.

Now I’m going back to the books and will likely need another snack to make it through the rest of my studying – maybe more fruit?

Sleep tight

I’m off to bed after my second last super long day! I’m definitely ready to crash and I hope I fall asleep right away!

As I thought, I got really hungry at around 3PM. I made my free soup, which was really yummy – Butternut Squash by Gardennay. It’s not the absolute best choice with cream, sugar and butter on the list of ingredients, but it was perfect for a quick light meal/snack. I dipped a few wedges od tortilla in it just to have something on the side.

Dinner was some brown rice, some chopped peppers and a chickpea cutlet. Pretty simple and plain, but still healthy considering I ate my planned dinner last night! Unfortunately, in my sleepy state, I just deleted the photo instead of inserting it into the post And, to top it off, I had already deleted it from my camera as I just did a clean-up.

Finally, on my way home I stopped at the grocery store – no post about that though because I only bought veggies and fruit (moving soon so cleaning out the pantry) and one amazing find – So Delicious Chocolate Peanut Butter “ice cream”!

Phew! I didn’t hit delete this time! I’ve been reading about this on Kath’s blog and I didn’t think it was available around here, but I found it and I had to have it. At least, I think it’s the same thing and if not, it’s still a peanut buttery chocolatey yummy desert

Now, off to bed before I do any more stupid things