Yesterday I received a gift from my Dad and his wife.  Technically, it was supposed to be a Christmas present.  But… since I already knew what it was, and I knew that I could really make use of it this week, I opened it.

It was a new blender!

My old one bit the dust, and I really wanted a nice new one.  This one can also act as a food chopper and processor.

So I decided to put my new blender to the test for breakfast, and I made a smoothie.

It had:

• 1 cup almond milk
• 1 cup frozen strawberries
• 1/2 cup yogurt
• flax seeds
• honey

I usually don’t like to drink my meals, but seeing my new blender at work was totally worth it.  Plus the smoothie was awesome.  My new blender crushed up the ice like nobody’s business!  Literally in seconds.  I was so proud.

Unfortunately, the smoothie didn’t fill me up until lunch.  I probably should have added some protein powder to make it more filling.  But I snacked on some ants on a log!

Haven’t had those for sooo long.  Makes me feel like a kid again

Lunch was my favorite – a Subway turkey sub!  I also had some broccoflower with hummus.

Mid-afternoon I got a total ice cream craving and gave in.  I polished off the last two (!!!!) huge pieces of my birthday cake.  And of course I didn’t feel that great about it afterwards.

Needless to say, my impulsive binge did not allow time for picture-taking before hand.  This after-the-fact evidence was the best I could do

Bad Rachel.  Oh well, at least it is gone now.  And I’m sad it is gone now!  I do that a lot… I have mixed feelings about unhealthy foods.  I am sad when they are gone, but at the same time relieved to not have them around anymore.  Does anybody else feel like that??

I went to the gym later on in the evening, which made me feel better.  30 minutes on the stepmill always lifts my mood!  I didn’t go until a bit later than usual (even though I was going by myself, not waiting for S), which also lifted my mood.  I wasn’t home yet by the time he got home.  I like to do that every once in a while because I feel like I am always sitting there, waiting for him when he gets home and he starts to take it for granted and/or think I have nothing better to do than have his dinner ready.  So I like to be out sometimes, just to show him that I can still do something on my own and won’t necessary be playing Holly Homemaker every time he walks in the door from work!

I tried to go for a healthy dinner to offset my birthday cake bonanza.  A salad with lots of goodies on top – ham, egg whites, cheese, edamame, cashews.

And since I can’t possibly go to bed without having something for my sweet tooth, I did cottage cheese cheesecake pudding with freeze-dried fruit and a crumbled sugar cookie on top.

The sugar cookie tasted funny in the cottage cheese cheesecake pudding… but I know there was nothing wrong with the cookie.  Somehow it just goes together with the cottage cheese poorly.  So I won’t be having this combo again…

G’night, ya’ll.