Wrong side of the bed!

Things are not going my way this morning! 

• I overslept
• husband used all the hot water (he was sleepy too and zombie showered I guess)
• I missed the late train, and had to wait for the REALLY late train
• I stood in a very long line for iced coffee while I waited, only to receive really crappy iced coffee which I'm pretty sure contained sour milk, but I was out of time to request a new one...
• skinny girl stood next to me on train platform, made me feel fat
• got middle seat on train (normally fine) but couldn't figure out how to balance coffee and book... made a fool of myself trying to put coffee on floor by sticking my face in neighboring gentlemen's lap
• in nyc got 2nd iced coffee at fancy coffee place, I ruined it by putting wrong ratio of milk/sugar
• regretted not buying delicious looking pastries while lamenting over 2nd coffee failure
• muggy and uncomfortable out, hair looks awful, skin shiny
• it started raining before I made it to the office, the kind where an umbrella is useless (I always get lucky and miss the rain when I arrive on time... observation: in NYC it never seems to rain between 7:30 and 8:30 am, but rains quite often at 9 am and later)
• Starving upon arrival at the office (since I didn't buy delicious pastries and coffee wasn't drinkable) I unpacked my lunch/snacks and realized I brought a rotten banana, squished strawberries, grapes, AND raspberries.  And no chocolate bars.

When I recounted these events to myself, I laughed, and *pouf*, bad mood gone!

PS - I know I said I was giving up coffee, but I'm not quite there yet. 

PPS - I gave in and bought expensive "local" strawberries last night, so cute and tiny and DELICIOUS!  Also, I suceeded in growing a strawberry!  Just one, but a strawberry nonetheless!

PPPS - Has anyone ever eaten a mulberry?  I think I have a mulberry tree, but I'm not 100% sure.  Berries all over the driveway.  I could eat them, but they might be poison, how can I tell?

I get so emotional bay-bay, every tiiiiime I think of you-oo-oo!

I'm trying to convince myself that I don't need coffee in the mornings.  I've been good about not having coffee more than 4 days in a row, so I've done pretty well avoiding the physical addiction - I'm not getting headaches at least.  But I still feel like I neeeeeed that sugary appetite supressant to get through the morning!  I yeeeaaarn for it.  Mentally.  So this morning, I planned ahead and bribed myself away from coffee:  expensive juice/smoothie, and a couple of ginger snaps (and yogurt, fruit, and granola bar as backup).

But I didn't stop at a couple of cookies.  I ATE THE WHOLE BAG!  8 servings! That's 40 cookies!!!!!!!!  And of course didn't touch the healthy back-up options.

So much for fixing my emotional attachment to a breakfast item.  I think maybe I'll have some coffee tomorrow morning...

The apple doesn't fall far from the... sandwich?

I treated myself to an enormous sandwich for lunch today.  Smoked turkey, brie, sprouts, green apple, and honey  mustard on a roll.  Mmmm!  I noticed it was a little too crunchy, but I continued eating, thinking it must be a healthier roll than I thought (you know, healthier bread = harder to chew?).  Turns out the person making my sandwich was too distracted by my beauty (just kidding, though he did give me extra chips and TWO pickles!) to concentrate on what he was doing... he gave me slices of apple with seeds still in them!  I ate apple seeds!  But i'm pretty sure I chewed them enough so that this can't happen:

Though considering how quickly I ate all the potato chips, I could get that fat.

NY Pizza is so overrated

I just had some really crappy pizza for lunch. In general, I don't like pizza. I've been told many, many times, that this is unbelievable... but it's true! I have a texture problem with the gunky mozarella, and pouffy bland crusts.  I ate it today because it was free, and as I've discussed before, free food has a strange power over me.

However, I overcame my pizza bias and ate lots of pizza in Italy... and loved most of it! The super thin crust kind, mmmm. In Siena we sat at a touristy restaurant on the plaza, eating bacon pizza, which was basically pizza with cheese, onions, and bacon melted on it. Yes, the bacon melted.  Amazing.

Mmmm, pizza and beer. And salami and cheese and bruschetta, because why not?

We were sitting next to this!

il campo

we tried to take a self portrait

we almost succeeded...

And here are some other pictures from the same day!





I fell off the face of the earth!

A lot's been going on!  I have a house guest (other than the birds, they finally left!  Mama bird was SCARY!) to whom I'm trying to speak another language, and then I went to Italy!  It was amazing!  Except I kept accidentally speaking Spanish!  I was so focused on being able to communicate with my mother-in-law at my own house, that I forgot to learn any Italian for vacation!  But language was hardly a barrier since everyone in Europe seems to speak English these days, and I was able to eat lots and lots of pastries, pasta, and gelato EVERY DAY, and somehow lost weight.  I should do that every day!  Here's a picture of husband and me in Italy!

Mmmmm, gelato!