Spice’s Bites — Jan. 5th, 2010

Thanks for your supportive comments yesterday!  It helped put things into perspective.

If you’re looking for lots of pictures in today’s post, sorry to disappoint you!  🙂

Today was my first day back after having 5 days off.  I could easily have taken another 5 days off, but when you’re working as a contractor and getting paid hourly, not working = not getting paid.  But the good news is that is going to change!  More about that in a later post.

Despite my intention to get up early so I could get to work earlier than I usually do (between 9 and 9:30), I instead woke up around 4 or 5 and didn’t fall back asleep until an hour later and then ended up getting up later than my original set time.  Got that?  In other words, I ended up getting up at the same time I usually do and had to make a mad scramble out the door.

So instead of scarfing down my breakfast at home, I had to scarf it down at work since I was starving by then.  I had one of my beloved breakfast sandwiches and forgot about taking a picture until I was halfway done eating it.  By then it was all messy with the cheese and sauce dripping everywhere.  I spared you the gore.

Want to guess what I had for lunch?  Did you guess baked rotini?  WRONG! I know, what a surprise!  Instead, I had this:

You know, I have to say that it really isn’t that bad a picture, considering I took it on my phone.

I had packed a salad to go with whatever I decided on for my lunch entree. After lots of hemming and hawing this morning, I remembered we had some spicy chicken fillets in the freezer. And some spicy southwestern ranch dressing. Yum yum. This is the kind of salad I will gladly eat.

After eating, I ran some errands and popped into Kroger to pick up some emergency lunch items. Picked up some Morningstar veggie burgers and a few Lean Cuisines since they were on sale.

A couple hours later, I had one of these:

I don’t know about you, but when it gets to be late in the afternoon, I really need a good snack.  Something with substance.  Because I come in to work later,  I really need something around 4 to last me another few hours until dinner.  I’ve been trying to eat more protein at this time so it lasts me longer.  So around 5, I had this:

Not the best picture, sorry! This is the last of my pepperjack sticks, the rest of the hunk of cucumber I brought for lunch, and a few pita chips.  I’m afraid I didn’t endear myself to my coworkers when I brought in leftovers from our party on Friday — the key lime pie, vanilla creme cake, and a big old bag of pita chips.  Oh well.

I’m afraid I don’t have any dinner pictures either.  We were invited over to a friend’s house to watch Georgia Tech play in the Orange bowl and I didn’t really know any of the other people there so I didn’t want to take pictures of stuff.  They made homemade pepperoni pizzas.  The dough was from scratch — literally.  They actually ground their own flour!  It tasted pretty good!  One of the couples brought salad, another brought an appetizer (some kind of yummy cheesy & sausage-y dip), and we brought dessert.  I brought a chocolate bundt cake and an angel food cake — store bought, of course, since we were going right after work.  Sadly, Tech was losing from the start and Mr. Spice and I took off at half-time.  I had a slice of pizza, salad, a little bit of chips and dip, and a piece of angel food cake.

I just realized what time it is! It’s after midnight!  Way past my bedtime.   See you tomorrow!