What a crappy day!

During the week, I do not drink coffee, unless I am in desperate need, or I'm off of work. So, this morning's breakfast consisted of 2 cups of Cheerios Whole Grain cereal with non fat milk. Since, I am not a morning person, without my workout, I try to get up and out ASAP. I love my sleep and it is impossible for me to wake up in enough time to go to the gym and workout (or even my run near the house). I usually get up and out of the house in 20 minutes. Since my husband works nights, it's not bad working out at night. I love coming home all sweaty, taking a shower and getting my comfy PJ's on.

I headed off to work and arrived bright and early. I usually drinks about 10 bottles of water throughout my entire day. To me, water tastes so good and I love that there are no calories. A few weeks ago, I received a jury summons in the mail. I always hate getting those. In Placer County, there is not an option if going would be financial distress on you and your family (which it would have been). So, I had to call in this morning. Of course, I was called in to arrive at 1pm. I knew I wasn't going to have time for my snack at my normal snacking time (noon). So, I decided to cut up my apple early and eat it at 11am. I think a cut up apple tastes so much fresher and tastier than a whole apple being bitten into. I don't know why, call me crazy.

I made my 35 minute drive to Auburn and found the court room I needed to be in. I am usually one of the youngest ones in there, which I was, again. Oh well. Three hours later, the judge called for a break. Since I hadn't had lunch yet (which I normally eat at 3pm), I was starving. I was lucky that I still had my Cliff bar in my purse. That came in handy.

I've never had the Peanut Toffee Buzz flavor before. I didn't take a picture (too hungry to, then I remembered after I ate the entire bar), but it had a nice little drizzle of toffee on the top. The peanuts were nice and tasty. This was the perfect snack to keep me awake during court and tide me over until after the gym. This Cliff bar was very filling.


At the gym, I did 3x of these abs workouts. I don't know the names of them, so I will look them up and write them down next time. I also spent 1/2 hour on the elliptical, 10 minutes on the rowing machine, and the final 15 minutes on another machine that is like the elliptical, just more difficult. I'll take a picture of the machine and post it to see if anyone knows the name of it.

For my dinner, I used up the last bit of the BBQ chicken in the wrap, like I did yesterday. I polished it off with a 1/2 bottle of my orange Gatorade. So yummy! I'm going to have to make this chicken again.

After cleaning up the kitchen, I finished my night with a 1/2 piece of toast with some peanut butter on top. I love this combination. It just tastes better being toasted. Since the peanut butter makes me so thirsty, I had 2 bottles of water with it. I am full for the night!

So, to recap, my day was crappy because I had jury duty (which I was dismissed from several hours later), still some personal crappy stuff going on, and my workout at the gym wasn't that great. I was barely sweaty when I got home. I think my brain was elsewhere.

Tell me how your day was?

Happy 4th of July!

My beautiful fruit salad: chop everything in bite size pieces, and leave grapes whole. Place in covered bowled over night in the refrigerator, and serve cold. Very nice chilled summer dish.

The best breakfast ever! French toast with a little butter and some light syrup, with a cup of coffee. Such an easy breakfast to prepare.

The fireworks show.


This was just a small amount of the food that was brought to the party. Such great, yummy treats!

The BBQ tasted so good. I tried my husbands steak, it just melted in my mouth...no need to chew.

I set my alarm early, for a holiday, 7:15 am. Of course, I hit snooze a couple of times. I began my day by fueling up with some water, a half of a banana, and some extra fruit salad I had made for our Fourth of July festivities. I headed out the door for my short run this morning of 2.25 miles. When I came back , I popped in a Denise Austin's Pilates DVD and set up my yoga mat for a 25 minute session. I love practicing pilates or yoga after a nice run. It really stretches my muscles out. Afterwards, I finished my workout with a mini 15 minute free weights. It was so nice to work my arms after stretching them for 25 minutes.

After I showered and cleaned up, Jason made me a great breakfast using Cascade Prides' 100% whole wheat stone bread, a couple of eggs and soy milk to make french toast. This is my favorite breakfast, and I could eat a million pieces. I was strong, and only had 3 pieces. I love this bread. I wasn't always a big fan of whole wheat bread, but I decided that I wanted to start to eat better, and this was a start. This bread has nice flavor, but not too sweet. I enjoyed my favorite breakfast with a cup of coffee with some creamer.

After a couple of hours flying by, we got ready to go to our friends' house for the 4th of July fireworks show and BBQ. This is a long tradition and we always have a blast. There is always so much food and drinks. This year, my weakness was the chocolate chip cookies. I had too many to count, I guess it's a good thing that I am working out tomorrow. I brought my fruit salad and some beer.

The fruit salad was made up of 1 full personal watermelon (using a melon baller), 1/2 of a honeydew melon (using a melon baller), 1 lb. strawberries (chopped to bite size pieces), 2 kiwi (peeled, and diced), 1 banana (chopped), and 1 1/2 lbs of purple grapes. I mixed everything together and let it sit overnight in the fridge. I like to make sure the juices from all the fruit soaks together. The salad was a big hit, but not as big as the usual side I bring; the 7 layer dip. That is usually devoured within a few hours. I wanted something semi healthy that I could eat this year.

Our gracious host always barbecues for us, and the guests bring the sides and fireworks. As I mentioned before, there is always way too much food, drinks and fireworks. It is always great to see everyone. This year, I had 1 hot dog in a white bun with mustard (which is my best friend in this type of situation), 2 beers, too many chocolate chip cookies and a couple handfuls of M&M's.

I hope everyone had a great Fourth. Tell me what is your least favorite firework? Mine is the Piccolo Pete's, too loud.