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Friday! Friday!

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Hello?

Oh, hi there! Good morning.

While the days are starting to blend together a bit, I’m still happy it’s Friday. (Mostly because then I have more people to play with.) I sort of felt like I was on a college schedule this week. I had interviews and meetings Monday – Thursday, but today I just have to go pick up my (and everyone else’s) bib for tomorrow’s race.

It’s Internet Week here in New York this week so I’ve been going to some events at night to meet some more people who share an affinity for elf culture. (Um, I mean, the internetz.) Last night, I met Abby at 675 Bar for a cocktail before heading over to a party. We both ordered their spring drink–an April something-or-other. It had CUCUMBER VODKA, blueberries and lime juice and tasted amazing. It was like cucumber water you get at a spa, but with alcohol. Win.

My stomach has been so seriously off lately, so to be honest, I haven’t been eating much and I have been eating at weird times.

Last night before heading out, I made a late lunch/early dinner so that a few cocktails didn’t go straight to my head.

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I got a package of for-the-grill vegetables at Trader Joe’s last week, and I made them in my grill pan last night. I put them with some brown rice and a chicken burger and topped it all with some pineapple salsa. I don’t look too closely at calories/serving sizes because I try to mostly eat real foods, but I noticed some of the serving sizes at Trader Joe’s seemed pretty small. For example, this is two servings of the vegetables. I don’t remember how many servings were in the sweet potato fries I had the other day, but I ate the whole bag. (It wasn’t that big.) Does anyone else think Trader Joe’s serving sizes are pretty small??

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I woke up this morning and went for my regular breakfast of sunflower butter and a banana on a whole-wheat English muffin. It usually calms my stomach.

Also…

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One Day at a Time

Losing your job is about much more than losing your paycheck and losing that place where you go for 40+ hours per week. It’s figuring out what you do in the interim, both financially and to keep busy. It’s figuring out what your next steps are. It’s figuring out who you are–and not letting yourself be defined by your career. It’s about figuring out what you absolutely need to survive and what are luxuries you can put aside temporarily, and it’s different for everyone.

This past week has been an emotional rollercoaster. For every promising job or freelance lead, there’s another difficult decision that has to be made or a difficult situation that has to be figured out. So one day at a time.

But at least it’s forcing me to spend more time making food for myself. (I wouldn’t quite call this cooking.)

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For dinner last night, I warmed up one of my chicken burgers from the Market Basket, picked up when I was home this weekend, and put it over some spinach. (Not quite a salad, but I’m trying to try more salad-like things, per my summer body experiment.) I topped it with some pineapple salsa from Trader Joe’s. Do you see those sweet potato fries? Trader Joe’s is amazing. They came pre-sliced like that, and all I had to do was season them with some sea salt and pepper, mist them with olive oil and pop them in the oven for a half hour at 400 degrees.

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This morning when I woke up, I was craving the bagel thin French toast I saw on Monica’s blog yesterday, but by the time I ran a few errands, I had zero desire to cook, much less something hot, so I made some cookie dough oatmeal.

Stay cool out there. It’s a scorcher.