My First Day of Pastry Heaven

Well yes my first day down! I really like working in a coffee shop, I don't know why exactly? Maybe because of "Friends" or the fact that I love tea and coffee?? The atmosphere is very fun and the people that work there and the customers are super friendly! The customers are mostly regulars and I will have to memorize their names and orders but other than that it is pretty darn stress free compared to my days of Set Decorating. I am bitter sweet about leaving the industry (well I shouldn't say leaving cause I have a job this weekend doing a TV Promo for "Rescue Me"). Funny how I put the Set Dec job in parentheses, shows how high it is on my scale I guess. Today overall was a good day of eats, lets start with bfast:
1 cup Kashi Sunshine, 1 cup Kashi Go Lean, 1 cup unsweetened Almond Milk, 1/2 banana, 1/3 Blueberry Z Bar ( these are very good but a bit too artificially blueberry if you know what I mean) and coffee with skim. I will probably not be making coffee at home any longer since I get FREE coffee and tea at work.
Before I showered and got ready for work I found my self finishing the Z Bar.

I knew I would not be having lunch at a normal time because my training started at 11AM, so I did what knew best and ate lunch at 10:45AM-hehe! I had the last of the roasted veggie lasagna and 1/2 cup of baby carrots. I ate it cold and it was really quite nice, kinda reminded me of a pasta salad! Here is my "graphic" picture-the newest swag talk for photographers doing editorial.

At work I had to make a variety of sandwiches (13 to be exact) and learn to make the coffee and tea drinks. I tasted a few, my fave so far: Boba (bubble tea) nonfat Green tea latte_yummmm but I found out that one boba ball is 5 calories-yikesss! Another super tasty drink: Mixed Berry Tea smoothie_this is all natural and simply refreshing! I was sad to find out that the cafe is not all organic :( but still fresh and pretty healthy!

At the end of my shift my boss announced that the left over pastries were "up for grabs" hello!!!???!!! My heart skipped a beat-probably not healthy to get to excited over deserts but oh well- I took one of EVERYTHING for Sean to try and me too of course! I thought it better to try the sweets in my own home where I can control the portion and fully savor my indulgences. Here are the pastries and muffins I brought home: banana nut muffin, blueberry muffin, strudel muffin, Cinnamon sugar muffin

Lemon bar (my fave), candied orange zest and almond hot bun, almond torte (fave #2), raspberry scone thing, banana nut bread, and a peach danish!!!!!! yes can I hear a HECK YES!

Since I ate lunch at 10:30 AM I was to no surprise STARVING when I got home at 6:30PM. I brought a Lara bar with me to work but never ate it. So the second I walked in the door I grabbed the spanakopita out of the fridge and ate the last 4 cold-new way to eat them and very good!

I also pulled out the leftover sweet potato and added some Eggplant Hummus- I love this stuff it is lighter than regular hummus and has a Babaganush taste to it! Very Greek and went so well with the potato.

For dinner I made a salad with red leaf, vine ripened tomato, carrot, red onion, black beans and a sprinkle of Parmesan. Dressed with S&P and O&V (new abbreviation for Balsamic and olive oil)

I then made a lunch for tomorrow. A wrap with Tofurky (new product), Eggplant hummus, and light Munster cheese with carrots and more hummus on the side.
Finally settling down to enjoy my sampler plate of pastries!!! This picture is a desert plate and yes I ate it all!

Well I am super ty ty and ready for bed so Good night everyone and I will report tomorrow with more good treats from work and hopefully a work out!

C

How I love to sleep!

So I slept in 'til 10am this morning! I planned to blog before lunch but my computer was acting up and I didn't want to get all huffy so I walked away and just came back to it now at 5:30pm!

Today was a pretty stressful day unfortunately. Sean's father is in the hospital in Houston, Texas and we are very worried and so far away it's been a hard couple of days to tell you the truth. But there is no sense in stressing over things you cannot control so I am trying to focus on the positive. It's time like these when I (even though I am not religious) look to a higher power to get me through the hard times. I even pray, which seems a bit weird to me but feels right.
Fewww! Glad I got that off my chest!

On a brighter side...my eats! For breakfast I wasn't in the mood for hot oats so I busted out a new product I bought at Costco last night:
These little guys are full of whole grains! They are a bit sweet so I paired 1 cup with 1 cup of Kashi Go Lean, 1 cup Kefir ( I realized I have been misspelling this:) 1/2 shot raisins and 1 med banana. On the side is my coffee with skim and these really CUTE coasters Sean's mom made us!

Close up!

This combo was interesting, the sweet cereal and sour kefir was a nice contrast, but the cereal was very puffy and light and got a bit soggy :(

I then drove to the 24 Hour Fitness near by to check it out and use my free pass. On the way I realized that the pass had expired!!! And I realized that the "near by" was really too far to go just for a gym. I hate driving to the gym at all but especially because the rout there was straight through congested streets full of traffic...no good. So I didn't even go in. I came home to have lunch which consisted of leftover Mexican! I added a 1/2 cup brown rice to make it more substantial and it turned out to be sooo much food!!!A while after lunch I drove to TJ's to pick up some things had this 1/2 of my Cliff bar from yesterday.

Here are my goodies!

I love these Tamarind pods!! They are not only super cheap $1.99 a bag, but also so much fun to eat! Sweet, spicy, and chewy! If you like Chile Mango you will love these!

I also bought these; I am on a dried fruit kick!A new coffee: Cute name huh?

Here is the other bag of goodies:

As you can see I bought no veggies because I have a fridge full! I forgot to get Yams though so I will have to go back to the store tomorrow sometime.

Here is my taste to show you the dried tamarind:

After putting everything away I walked to the post office to drop off my Netflix and ended up walking for 51 min burning 152 calories. I returned to snack on these bites: 1 small orangeAnd 2 spoonfuls of Fage 0% 1 small red delicious, and 1/4 cup Organic Heritage. This cereal is perfect for mixing with yogurt, it holds up nice because the flakes are thick, it was quite satisfying! Almost so much I don't know when I will be hungry for dinner :)

I think I will try to squeeze in some OnDemand yoga and a bath (to read my new Cooking Light mag) before dinner. That is if I can pull myself off the couch and away from "RAH! Paul Abdul Cheerleading" on MTV, sad but I love it. I was a Varsity Cheer Captain in High School so watching brings back memories! I am on my own for dinner tonight, Sean is working late, so I am not sure what I will eat. I am still nice and full!

C