This will most definitely be the longest post of all time. There were 36 pictures on my camera! I think I widdled it down to about 20. Apparently widdled is not a word.
So let’s start with Friday…
After work, I went home, changed, stopped at the liquor store and then went to Oakland for the WYEP Summer Festival.
There were lots of people. This was the very beginning but it quickly filled up with people.
Andy stopped by:
And old coworker, Laura:
Bad picture of me:
Laura brought a little picnic! There were some cheeses, nuts, fruit and coconut covered dates. I had a date. It was DELICIOUS. I’m a big fan of dates. They’re like pure sugar.
I brought some picnic wine and Laura brought wine too. We were sort of discreet about it.
The show was lots of fun. Pretty much anything that involves having a picnic is something I will enjoy.
After that, Laura and I decided to go to Howlers for another show. Here’s a poor quality picture for you:
It was a ridiculous night. It was a fun night. It lasted for a LONG time. I didn’t go to bed until around 5 AM. The birds were chirping.
Let the vagueness begin.
Moving on to Saturday
I think I slept until around 10 AM. I kept waking up though so it wasn’t very restful. I was hungry and didn’t have much food so I went and got some groceries and found these:
Oh how I love chocolate Almond Breeze. I’m stocked up.
Thennn I ended up going to Piper’s Pub in the South Side for lunch with a friend.
He got this:
That would be Bangers & Mash. Interesting, huh? Sooo sausage and mashed potatoes. He liked it. I liked taking a picture of it.
I got a grilled vegetables sandwich with french fries. Is that MAYONNAISE on my plate??
I ate half of the sandwich and some of the fries and took the other half home. I ended up having that for dinner later.
Saturday evening was also fun-filled and I will continue to be vague about were I went and who I was with. Don’t you LOVE this? What kind of blog is this? Focusing on food? WHAT?? Sorry, at some point, I will stop being vague and you all will be interested again. Hopefully..
So I didn’t end up going to bed until about 3 AM Saturday night. Two late nights in a row! Who am I?
I got up earlyish Sunday and made some oatmeal with wheat bran and a strawberry on top.
Staged photo here:
After breakfast, I went out and did some things including more grocery shopping… and then came back here to take a nap. Glorious nap.
Around 6, Friend came over and we made some dinner.
WHOSE hands are those??
Black bean burgers being cooked:
With butternut squash and sweet potato fries.
Our plates:
Today — Monday
Back to normal this morning. Pumpkin oats with Kashi Heart to Heart and a banana. I love that cereal. I think it’s the little hearts..
I had a big salad for lunch and a couple of carrots. There was a whole bunch of random stuff in the salad including hummus, artichoke hearts, garbanzo beans, peppers, blackberries, tomatoes, gorgonzola cheese, and probably other stuff that I don’t remember.
I also had yogurt for a snack in the afternoon. I bought the biggest container of Chobani Greek yogurt that you’ve ever seen.
I got home and made a green smoothie. Sorry for the terrible picture. My action shot failed miserably.
After this, I went to the gym to run because it kind of looked like it was going to rain. It did not. I also had to go to the grocery store AGAIN today because I agreed to make a key lime pie for a coworker’s dinner party Wednesday night. I will most assuredly make no profit on this pie but I do love baking and I’ve never baked key lime pie so it’ll be an experiment.
I ran 3.5 miles at the gym varying between 6.5 & 7 mph. I came home STARVING. I ate a Kashi Go Lean Crunchy bar or whatever and then made dinner. I had a black bean burger left over so I made wraps.
One for dinner and one for lunch tomorrow.
I also roasted some kale to go along with the wrap:
ALRIGHT. That didn’t take as long as I expected. Probably because I didn’t put a whole lot of effort into it. My laptop is warm. It’s making my legs warm which is making my whole body warm so I need to finish this. Bowie is chewing on cardboard.
So tomorrow evening I have to bake the pie and then hopefully do laundry. We’ll see how that goes. Uh oh, That’s not cardboard. I wonder what he has.
Have a nice night!
