Never Quite

It sucks waking up after a long hard night of non-sleeping family members and feeling flat out destroyed, like if your brain was on a heart monitor, you'd be showing a flat line. I managed to motivate to make a fruit smoothie to get me going, but the brain box never quite kicked in. The day was taken with a trip uptown to visit with B's family, and I was able to sneak in a small nap, but still. Ugg.


BREAKFAST: 8:30am, iced green tea, fruit smoothie, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5


AM SNACK: 11:30am, chococheese knish, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5


LUNCH: 3pm, 2 slices of pizza, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5


DINNER pt 1: 6:30pm, large green salad with sauteed shrimp, handful of newman-os, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

EVENING SNACK: 8pm, ramen noodles, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5

Instinct Override

Edie off at school, B out with Mil, I got to focus on having some fun in the kitchen, overriding my other instinct to just sleep.


TODAY'S COOKING:
Potato knishes, chocolate hazelnut knishes: Made mini sized 2-3 bite knishes to bring to a kiddie hannukah party tomorrow, and some for a family gathering next week. Choco knishes were an experiment, losing the nutella and working to balance dutch cocoa, hazelnut paste and shortening. Not there yet, but in the right direction.


Wholewheat 10-grain bread: Busted out the bread machine, used my standard recipe but added 2 tbsp of vital gluten, on the idea it'll strengthen the bread, make it heartier. It did, but not enough, and it fell apart as I was slicing it beyong the 2 slices I needed for my sandwich. Maybe it fell apart because it was still warm? Hmmmm.


AM SNACK: 7:30am, iced green tea


BREAKFAST: 8:45am, sausage mcmuffin, hashbrown, diet coke, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5


AM SNACK: 11am, bites of potato filing, bites of chocohazelnut cheese filling


LUNCH: 2pm, sardine and avocado on freshly baked wholewheat, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5


PM SNACK: 6pm, cookies baked by a friend, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5


EVENING SNACK: 8pm, bowl of potato chips, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5

Shuttering

Betsy went out for a massage in the morning, and me and Mil met her out for lunch. The day just seemed to speed by due to lack of sleep, and came to a grinding shuttering halt around 9pm when my brain felt like it was falling out of my skull from lack of sleep.


AM SNACK: 6:30am, iced green tea


BREAKFAST: 7:30am, 3/4 of a toasted sesame bagel with cream cheese, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5
The Ediemonster declared ownership of the rest of the bagel, maybe ate a small toddler bite and the rest was grist for the toy mill.

AM SNACK: 10:30am, slice of streetza, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5


LUNCH: 12:15pm, ziti & meatballs, a few brussel sprouts, root beer, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
Lunch with the wifey at Pulinos. Haven't been there in a while, it's really fallen off with desperate service, just OK food. Kinda empty, too. Didn't finish my ziti, it was just unremarkable.


DINNER: 5:30pm, tilapia, 2 spinach knishes, health salad, pickles, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5


EVENING SNACK: 7pm, handfull of newman-o cookies.

I miss bike riding.

Slept in as much as possible this morning, hoping to catch up on some sleep. Went to school to teach, got there early so I could slowly organize the class without worrying about my fuzzy head screwing things up. Class went well, students were very happy with the Italian-American menu. Riding home from Red Hook on a fuzzy head and full stomach was a slow slog, but it was nice to be outside and pedalling. I miss bike riding, the going-placishness of it, the calm it brings me, the connection to the city.

BREAKFAST: 7:30am, iced green tea, cheerios & organic dead milk, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5


LUNCH: 1pm, 1 slice streetza, small amount of ginger ale, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5


SCHOOL DINNER: 6:30pm, chicken parm, meatball, fresh pasta with tomato sauce, broccoli, sprite, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5


EVENING SNACK: 9:45pm, 3 small pancakes, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5

Adventuresome

It was too cold to hang out outside with Edie after school yesterday, so we went home and had a great amount of fun doing the laundry together. Funny how routine things can become adventuresome when done with a toddler.

BREAKFAST: 7:30am, iced green tea, the good oatmeal, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
1.5 cups water, .5 steel cut oats, 1 tablespoon butter, 1 tablespoon brown sugar, 1/4 tsp salt, 1/4 tsp cinnamon and 1/4 tsp cardemom. Good, but I think I can cut back the last 3 ingredients to 1/8 tsp -- I guess I'll just have to go "heavy pinch"

LUNCH: 12:30pm, 2 spinach knishes, health salad, pickles, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

DINNER: 6pm, 2 slices streetza, large green salad, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5


EVENING SNACK: 8pm, whole wheat ritz crackers & nutella, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5

Yay Edie!

Woke up without a lot of sleep. Skipped a proper breakfast to get Edie to school and then go to Union Square to pick up a big bag o' cat food. Back in time for my first ever Parent Teacher conference as a parent. It was running behind schedule, so instead of going out for a nice breakfast with B, I grabbed some Chinese street cart breakfast. Rest of the day went in a haze of lack of sleep.

According to Edie's teacher, she's very mature and forward-thinking for a 2.5 year old. Hopefully I'll be hearing stuff like that for many years to come! Yay Edie!

AM SNACK: 7:30am, iced green tea


BREAKFAST: 10:30am, rice noodle & fishball, lotus leaf wraps, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5


DINNER: 5pm, stouffer's french bread pizza, large green salad, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5


EVENING SNACK: 8pm, peanuts & chocolate chips, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5

Too Many Cookies

B & Mil spent the day in doors while I took Edie on the big bike and took the ferry to SI to visit Sailor Snug Harbor, a spot I grew up near and had a lot of pre-teen angst in. In the evening, we popped over to some neighborhood friends for a nice home cooked dinner. Ate too many cookies in the evening and suffered for it.


BREAKFAST: 10:45am, iced green tea, onion bagel with cream cheese, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

PM SNACK: 4:30pm, large green salad, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5

DINNER: 6pm, baked ziti, sauteed kale, 1 glass of beer, 1 glass of wine, pineapple, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5


EVENING SNACK: 9pm, cookies, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5