WHERE'S THE HEAT?

My toes are freezing. It's hard to believe that the space heater in my room is currently on because my toes feel like they're going to fall off. It's too cold out. I don't know what the heck is going on with my body but it has not been able to adapt to the cold this winter. As a result, I am not a fan :(

Today's eats were pretty darn good, if I do say so myself. I've now figured out a good schedule for first and second breakfast. Today's first breakfast was two small slices of rye bread with peanut butter (I had the ends of a loaf of bread) and second breakfast was instant organic oatmeal with frozen peaches (that had thawed by the time 10:30 rolled around), blueberries and freeze-fried pineapple bits. My only problem is that instant oatmeal is NOT filling and I keep forgetting the bring along some chia seeds. When I'm eating instant oatmeal at home I always add at least one teaspoon of chia seeds to keep me satiated and especially considering that my next breakfast isn't until another four hours later, I definitely need to remember the chia seeds for tomorrow.

Lunch was pretty stellar but pretty much a repeat of yesterday's dinner:Baked salmon and potato with olive oil, salt, pepper and crumbled feta along with leftover roast veggies. Yum!! I definitely didn't want this lunch to end--nor my actual lunch time.

Fruit bento consisted of canteloupe:
The other fruits you see in there (blueberries and peaches) are the ones I used for my oatmeal. I'm trying to pare down the amount of tupperware I bring to work so that I don't have to wash as many containers when I get home. At my previous workplace I didn't care because I could just wash my containers at work but at my new place there are far too many employees and nowhere to let your dishes/containers dry.

Tonight's dinner was a mish-mash of stuff:
Flax-encrusted sweet potato balls (from Healthy Tipping Point), kidney beans and what my dad actually cooked for dinner: spare ribs with sea cucumber, mushrooms, red pepper, tofu and baby bok choy. I am NOT a fan of weird mish-mash things like that so I tried to avoid his dinner all together but couldn't just eat kidney beans and sweet potato balls for dinner.

I was also bad and ate a chocolate cupcake (unfrosted) and then another mini one with frosting. I also had a white tea jelly with fruit thing and a square of Lindt's sea salt chocolate bar, which I will be reviewing later.

Today's post is short and sweet because I need to get some sleep!!

iPHONE-IRIFIC

I have no food photos for today except for my dinner, which was pretty awesome:Baked salmon with lemon and crumbled feta, baked potato with extra virgin olive oil, pepper and crumbled feta, broccoli and red peppers. Delicious but way too much food at 10pm.

The rest of the day's eats were equally delicious but I had no time to take photos in the morning because I left the house at 9:23 (holy mackerel!) and swiped in at work at EXACTLY 9:30. There was actually a bit of traffic in the morning so it took longer than usual to get to work. I'm laughing inside because taking two minutes longer than usual to work is what I consider traffic. Hoo-ha, I love my new workplace.

And when I say, I really do. Besides the tedium of triaging (is that a word? Blogger doesn't think so) and logging in samples, it's a great environment. The people are friendly and make me want to have conversations despite being ridiculously shy around new people. The work is new and challenging but wanting to make this job work is what makes me want to learn and not give up. This is definitely a job where I will never say I know anything and it's nice being able to say I have a job in a completely unrelated field because at least I'm learning new things everyday. The only thing I'm not so happy about is being surrounded by pathogens all day long, especially when I have the most inane fear of contracted E. Coli. I avoid eggnog and chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream in fear of contracting E. Coli! I don't even care if the eggs are pasteurized or if no eggs are included as an ingredient; I'm not taking any chances.

Anywaaaaaaaaay, back in food land...I forgot to post about Monday's! How could I forget all about the first day of February!? Here was yesterday's food at work:Second breakfast of mushroom omelet with two slices of rye bread. I ran out of breakfast time and only ate half of what you see above).

Then for lunch I had Sunday's leftovers:Tagliatelle with tomato, zucchini and leftover honey garlic ribs.

My fruit bento consisted of a couple clementines, mini carrots and grapes:No photos from dinner because apparently I was hungry and eating was more important than photographing.

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Oh yeah, I totally forgot to mention the title of my post! As you may have guessed, I got an iPhone! It was a good deal and my new awesome rate plan is only $5 more than my previous one. So all in all, I'm still impressed with Telus even after al these years. Heck, they did remove $165 worth of charges on three previous months' worth of bills.

Anyway, I'm still getting used to using my iPhone. I haven't had a chance to check out the manual yet--does it even come with one?--so I basically know how to make/answer calls, send/receive text messages, browse/download apps, access Facebook and I guess that's all that matters, just kidding! In time I'll figure out what the heck the rest of those buttons are for.