Sweet and Salty

2nd meal of the week is a success! The Chicken Stir Fry was delicious- and the chicken was cooked perfectly! Which is soo exciting because I always seem to overcook chicken making it even drier than normal. 

So after yesterday's and today's dinner I had cravings for something sweet. Last night I tried to make my own Berry Chill which was a complete disaster-strawberry yogurt with heath bar bits and chocolate chips...ick! And after tonight's dinner I debated running to the local Italian deli to get some Tiramisu, but I didn't really want to walk the two blocks to get it so instead I grabbed a handful of chocolate chips and had those. I think the reason I keep having sweet cravings is because these two meals had lots of soy sauce and other high sodium ingredients which is overwhelmingly salty. And instead of drinking a couple glasses of water to counteract the salty taste in my mouth, I have decided to indulge in my sweet tooth which pretty much erases my workout and eating healthy today.

I hope tomorrow's meal is a bit more sweet-either that or I plan ahead and buy something sweet at the store before dinner. :)

The Wandering Mind of the Unemployed

Sounds like a self-help book doesn't it? I was laid off a couple of weeks ago now...and of course, it was completely devastating because I have never been laid off before and I never thought I would be the one to be laid off. Blah Blah Blah so anywayy, I have been thinking of things I can do that are fun jobs just to pay the bills for awhile and then get a real job. I was thinking of working at 1154 Lill- a super cute design your purse place, but they have not called me back. Then I was thinking I could work at a Starbucks or some cute coffee place-but I would be horrible at customer service. So I broke down and decided I should just do the real job search and see what happens. 

Now I sit here patiently waiting to get a job-what do people do when they have no job and nothing to do? I keep making the joke that I wouldn't mind being laid off if I was planning a wedding or having a baby-neither of those will be happening. Then I thought I could decorate our condo and paint- except those things require money-something I am supposed to be saving. Then last night I had an idea that I could be like Julie on Julie and Julia and blog about cooking-except Julia Child's cookbook scares me; maybe I could do a dessert blog-but I realized I don't have a mixer to make the desserts.

To sum-up, I will not being doing any "fun" jobs for the summer, I will not be blogging my way through any cookbooks and I will not become the next big Interior Designer and have my own show on HGTV. I will, however, be bored out of my head and continue to apply online and blog about nothing in particular because my mind needs somewhere to release.

Mom Comes to Town

For those who know my mom-I am a mini me version of her, at least in my personal life. While I am very much like my mom in the way I talk and my sarcastic humor-I am my father in business. I am very hard on people and have a short temper when I get frustrated. So when my mom and I get together we usually end up hysterically laughing over something very stupid. "Do you like my hat?" "No I do not" "Goodbye!" "Goodbye" 

But back to the present: She is coming to spend the weekend here in Chi-town while the boy is away-VERY excited! I have had a countdown for her arrival for about 50+ days. I actually had someone who I have not spoken to in months ask me where I was going. She said she had to ask because she was dying to know what was so exciting that it warranted a 50 day countdown-I told her my mom, she laughed. We have also been planning an itinerary for the weekend-yes she will only be here for 3 days or so, but we have lots to cover! Mani/Pedis at Aveda, designing our bags at 1154 Lill, eating sushi at Coast and indulging in some Berry Chill...the list goes on! I cannot wait!! yay!

 

I vote no on Umbrellas

I have never been a fan of the umbrella and since moving to the city I have come to hate them. Knowing Chicago is "the windy city," why on earth would people use an umbrella in a windy rain storm? You know it is just going to flip inside out and then you have nothing. Not to mention you push your way into the wind just to get down the street. 

I am more a fan of the hat and raincoat. Both keep you equally as dry-although my purse is soaked, but I feel if it is a raining sideways that will happen anyway. All that is wet are my knees because that is the only part not covered by either my rain coat or rain boots. And I have never been one to do my hair so putting a hat on really makes no difference whats so ever. And for those ladies who would never put on a hat because it would mess up their hair? I am quite positive that the woman I saw pushing herself down the street with her umbrella looks much worse than I do right now, in fact I would put $5 down that her hair looks like a rats nest right now-a wet one.

Accident Prone

I never used to be this way...I don't think. But in the last week, I have managed to hurt myself or get hurt by other objects several times. I had a run-in with a car last week on my bike-big ugly bruise on my forearm. Then I somehow managed to jam my watch on my wrist or something because there is a bruise on my wrist where my watch is. And then yesterday during Easter I was trying to uncork a bottle of wine using a very nice Brookstone Wine opener that was made for ease of use and I managed to screw my finger instead of the cork. 

So now my middle finger has a puncture wound and is all swollen so I am sure that will be bruised shortly too. All in all I am quite grumpy and overtired this morning. My mom thinks it was the sugar from Easter, I think it is my body telling me I need to stay inside away from anything that can hurt me. Perhaps my nice soft bed or a padded room? :)

Warm Weather=Not Productive

It is officially Spring in Chicago- it was around 76* yesterday and today it has hit 80*. In honor of this beautious day, a bunch of us went out to lunch next door to enjoy the warm weather on the patio. Ever since we got back 2 hrs ago I can't focus- I am done for the day. I keep wandering around the office chatting with people and I am pretty sure I have checked in with my team 3 times in the last hour to see how they are doing and if I can help with anything. Don't get me wrong I am psyched for this weather, I even switched out all my winter clothes for my summer clothes last night. I think it is because whenever it gets warm out I go back about 8 years to when we still got summer vacation- we should really reinstate that for the real world- or at least non-school people.