5 AM Phone Calls

(image from: http://thetwors.blogspot.com/2011/04/sleeping-in-and-saving-environment.html)

I'm tired today.

Currently, I'm not feeling it.  Adrenaline and all that. You know how you get so tired you just can't help but function on overdrive?? That's how I feel at the moment.  But my need to overdrive is currently finished for the day - we're having family snuggle on the couch Sunday (except for Little Miss, who is mimicking Pete's skipping in the movie we're watching, Pete's Dragon.  So I'm sure the adrenaline will pass in a bit and I'll crash.....

The past few nights have not been good sleeping nights for me.  Which is honestly, really weird, because when I lay down at night, I fall asleep, and then I am OUT until Little Miss bombs me out of bed in the morning.  I would sleep until the afternoon every day if I could, I kid you not, and still be able to sleep at night. I LOVE sleeping. sigh 


Thursday night I realized how insanely busy Friday was going to be, rushing to fit everything in we needed to get done and get to my SIL's to surprise the nieces after school, so stayed up late crafting the birthday presents I wouldn't otherwise have had time to make.

Not ideal, but no BIG deal or anything.  I watched silly tv on Netflix and made oodles of earrings and necklaces for the 8-year-old dear to accessorize with now that she's got pieced ears.  It was fun!

But then Friday morning around 5 Little Miss decided she needed to come crash my sleep for some snuggles.

Fine, no big deal. I love snuggles.

Then Friday night we slept away from home, which again, I don't usually have a hard time with. When it's time for me to sleep, that is that!  I'm lucky that way, I guess.

But I stayed up a little bit late blogging about the epic fail and by the time I got to bed Mr. Man was definitely asleep.  And laying on his back.  Which for me, means a NOISY night.  MAN can he snore.

And then my nieces all wake up at like, I don't even know - some hour of the morning I've never seen before! hahaha So I didn't really sleep in yesterday either.

Okay, but LAST night.  Really.  UGH.

Mr. Man knew I was getting tired going a couple of days without ideal amounts of sleep - some people function just fine and dandy, but I'm one of these for whom a lost hour's sleep equals a disproportionately huge shift in mood, so it's usually in his best interest I'm well rested ;-) - and so insisted that we get to bed at a decent hour last night.  He made me go to bed BEFORE 11 even.  I mean, REALLY!!

But then I couldn't fall asleep!  WHAT??

I finally fell asleep sometime after 1 AM, after listening to his slow, NON-snore for EVER, and fighting the urge to get up and do ANYTHING other than lay there like a useless lump... if I'm awake I may as well be productive and DO something, right??

Anyway, I finally, eventually fell asleep.  Yay for me.

5 AM. FIVE IN THE MORNING.  Mr. Man's cell phone, out in the dining room, rings.  Mr. Man's cell phone.  Mr. Man's cell phone NEVER rings.  Not EVER.  I don't even call it.  He has this pay-as-you-go plan where texts are unlimited and phone calls are limited, so no one EVER calls him 'cause he won't answer it anyway!  hahaha Sometimes my brother forgets and calls Mr. Man's cell phone, but that's it. It NEVER rings.

It rang.  At five o'clock in the morning.

Did he hear it??

Gosh, no, of course not.

And so I lay there, having been aroused by someone ELSE'S cell phone probably having been accidentally drunk-dialed or something stupid at 5AM, with a wandering, wide-awake mind.

And then I thought, gee, you know, the only person who ever really calls Mr. Man's cell phone IS my brother.  I wonder if it was him calling.  I wonder if everything is okay.  I wonder if everyONE is okay.  I mean, why do people ever call other people at five o'clock in the morning?  Not ever for anything except to say that someone's died or something other such fabulous news.  I wonder who's DEAD?! Why didn't I run and grab the phone? Did Mom get in a plane crash coming home from Florida? Even though she's not flying home until Friday??

Wait. Wait a second. If someone's dead then whoever called will call again.  They won't call once and not get us.  When you call people at 5 in the morning you expect that they're asleep and you'll have to call again.  They'll call again.

...........

Then MY cell phone rang.

Ohmigoodness, someone IS dead!  WHO'S DEAD?!?!

I GRABBED my phone, looked at the caller ID to see: "unknown caller," and frantically pushed the button to answer the phone.

Except I pushed the wrong button.

I PUSHED THE WRONG BUTTON!!

I accidentally pushed the lower right button instead of the upper right button to answer my phone.  Now, I totally understand why I did it - my phone really doesn't ring very often either; as popular as I am people just don't call me (it's okay - I don't call anyone either. Phone chat isn't really my thing).  So I don't have oodles of practice on automatically pressing the 'answer' button. When my phone does ring I have to look at it and register which button is answer.  And in the pitch-black of 5:05 AM I hit the wrong button.

NO! NO NO NO NO NO!  Someone's DEAD and I just DIDN'T answer the phone!! OHMIGOODNESS!  PLEASE call back! Please call back!! I'm sorry! I know which button it is now! I know!  CALL ME BACK!!

I lept out of bed with my cell in my hand and raced to the living room to grab the portable off of the charger - we have a charger in the bedroom, too, and keep a phone in there for just such an occasion, but of course it's migrated to somewhere else in the house so was of now use to me this morning.

With my cell phone in one hand and the house phone in the other - obviously someone who wants to get us badly enough at 5 am to call both our cell phones will next try to rouse us with the landline, right?  Right?? - I headed back to my bedroom.  Where I proceeded to turn the ringers way down so as not to wake up Mr. Man before necessary when one of the phones inevitably rang again.   And then sat there.  One phone in each hand.

And waited.

And waited.

And waited.

And imagined what the news was.  WHO called?  Maybe Mom was coming home early for something and the plane went down?  Maybe my dad's cold this week wasn't just a cold and he succumbed during the night??  WHO IS DEAD?!?!

And I waited.

And waited.

And waited.

And WAITED.

Finally around 5:30 I put the phones down on my side table - if I heard Mr. Man's cell phone in the dining room I'd hear the land line from the other rooms and the turned-down ringer by my head.

And I lay down and waited.  Waited for the phone to ring. Waited to fall back to sleep.

Back to sleep. HA! HAHAHAHAHA!  As IF!

I was SO worked up.

No one ever called.  To the best of my knowledge all my family members are alive and well.   Mr. Man checked his phone when he got up and the only missed call was a 'blocked number,' whatever that means on his phone.

I don't know who it was, what was going on.  Was someone trying to get a hold of us to tell us something?  We were both pocket-dialed by someone, one after the other? Were we both wrong-numbered at 5 in the morning? That's happened to us before.

NO IDEA.

But, promise me something, please.

If you ever accidentally pocket-dial, wrong-number dial, or WHATEVER to someone at 5 in the morning and you don't talk to an actual person? LEAVE A MESSAGE and say  "SORRY! Wrong number!!" so that at 5:01 AM when the poor unsuspecting, used-to-be-sleeping-and-is-now-going-insane-with-worry soul can say "Oh. MORON!" and then go back to sleep!!

I'm going to go take a nap.

Detox Days 8-11 & the epic FAIL

Howdy, folks!

So, the past week has been fabulous. I've eaten great foods, lots of variety, lots of yummy things.  Eggs in the mornings, meat & veggies and snacks in the non-mornings.

And as I've gone I've even taken photos of some of my favourites so I can share them with you.

But, today, I have to confess.

And every time I have to confess, I feel like it's OKAY, because, this IS "Confessions of a Kin Major," and while I may have graduated my Kin degree and have moved on to....more school....I still make "mistakes" and have things to fess up.

So, here's what happened.

I have four nieces. They are spectacular.  And today the oldest one turned 8.  And Little Miss had a day off school today - is it PA or PD day now, I don't even know - soooo we decided to trek up to visit the family and surprise our nieces with a Happy Birthday visit and sleepover.

HUZZAH!

So after a morning kickboxing class (I got four classes in this week!  Including what Sensei G calls an "F-U Day," and yes, F & U stand for....exactly what it sounds like. hahaha The idea is that by the end of it everyone in the class should be yelling that particular expletive at him or he's not worked us hard enough... it's a brilliant workout) we ran around like mad and got ourselves organized, and out of town.  To surprise the girls getting off the school bus, play some games, craft some jewellery, make birthday dinner, and then eat said dinner.

Dinner was chicken parmesan with whole wheat spaghetti, shrimp, escargot with bread for dipping in the garlic butter, caesar salad with homemade croutons (I made them!), broccoli, & sparkling grape juice.

I did NOT eat that.  Promise.  My darling SIL kept a hunk of chicken from being smothered in cheese for me, and I didn't eat bread dipped into melted garlic butter.  I didn't eat the croutons in my salad, nor the escargot (um, ew?), and I had water to drink.

Dinner was delicious!!

Then we cleaned up, gathered gifts, and the celebratory birthday dessert started coming out of the kitchen.  Including a rousing version of "Happy Birthday To You" from everyone, of course!

So, the birthday girl, for her 'cake,' requested the following:

brownies

vanilla ice cream

whipped cream (the icky kind in a can, that tastes deliciously like whipped butter.....drool)

chocolate sauce

jujubes

Oh. My.

And for some reason, the brownie 'cake' which was decorated with jujubes, ended up right in front of myself and my other SIL at the table.  Just sitting there.

Taunting me.

..... I don't know how it happened, but all of a sudden an orange jujube found its way into my mouth....

And since the detox is kind of ruined with a jujube....it seemed a little pointless to bother keeping up with it after that point! 

Yes, those white flecks all over the table are from my liberal application of whipped cream to my, uh, mountain of dessert.

I swear it didn't look that big from where I was...nom nom nom...oh, never mind!

So... I totally caved.  I just gave in.  I WANTED brownies, ice cream, whipped cream, and chocolate sauce!  I mean, who in their right mind WOULDN'T want those things?? 

And you know what? I'm totally FINE with the fact that I ate that giant mound of dessert.  IT WAS YUMMY.  It was a special occasion.  I haven't eaten dessert since Christmas.  I AM back into the pants I busted out of over Christmas, with a little bit of wiggle room.  I went to four kickboxing classes this week instead of 'just' three. I've learned how to eat properly for MY body.  

And except for the GINORMOUS zit that's taken up residence on my face at the moment, I look fabulous. 

So, I'm good. 

Tomorrow I won't have dessert.  Or bread.  Or crepes (which is the planned breakfast - I'll think of my last delicious outing with crepes over Christmas and then whip myself up some eggs).  And in another few days or so, maybe I'll have 'earned' my next splurge/cheat.  But I'm good with today's.  

It was delicious. 

Detox Days 5, 6 & 7

Hi!

Sorry for the weekend hiatus, but I had a fabulous weekend and kind of kept away from the computer a bit.

Saturday we actually had NOTHING on. NOTHING!  It was FABULOUS. All three of us lounged around the house in our pjs until about noon, playing games, chill axing, eating breakfast.... huh - totally drawing a blank on what we ate. hahaha PROMISE I didn't cheat, though.  Okay, chatting with Mr. Man I think I had a couple of boiled eggs. Oy, how we forget such monumental moments! ;-)  Snacked on nuts, crab meat...don't remember if I grabbed any veggies....probably not, WHOOPS! Anyway, we ran some errands, cleaned the house, played some more, and then Mr. Man and I, get this....WENT ON A REAL DATE!!

I KNOW, right? CRAZY!!

We got a baby-sitter and the whole nine yards!

Dinner AND a movie!!

We went to Jack Astor's for dinner - there is ONE detox-friendly salad on the menu, and it was DELICIOUS.  AND I didn't have to make it!  And, because we were dining out and having some fun we even splurged and had SPARKLING water. hahaha  OOOOOOooo CRAZINESS!

Then we FINALLY went to see the new Sherlock Holmes flick.  I, personally, LOVE the first one, and got a big kick out of reading one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's collections near the end of last year.  I find Holmes to be just a hilariously delightful character and LOVE Robert Downey Jr in the role.  So yeah, basically it was the perfect evening.

We even TALKED over dinner.

GASP


And then Sunday I was off to class for the day!  Ate some eggs and nuts for breakfast, took some leftover spaghetti squash and sauce for lunch (it's yummy cold, too!), and then came home to a house full of family!  My in-laws trekked down for the afternoon/evening to celebrate Mr. Man's turning even OLDER, and spoiled us with a fabulous, detox-friendly meal of flank steak, asparagus, cauliflower, and a scrumptious salad (and for non-detoxers, potatoes, cheese sauce for the veggies, escargot & bread, plus black forest cake).  Another FABULOUS detoxing meal I didn't have to prepare.

See?  TOTALLY spoiled over the weekend. FABULOUS.

Today, I weighed myself, just to see where I am, post Christmas eats (for the record, it was NOT my mother's fault that I totally binged on cinnamon buns.  I did it willingly and knowingly...and even made myself a pair of elastic-waistband pj bottoms so I had pants that would grow with me as I gorged on...everything in sight! Whoever said 'nothing tastes as good as thin feels' has NOT eaten at my mother's house!) and with almost a week of detox and back to kickboxing, and I was happy to see that I'm not imagining feeling better - I'm 5 lbs down from my last weigh-in before Christmas.  Which was great to see!

Then, tonight, at kickboxing, I thought, what the heck, let's see where I'm at since last Monday night, 'cause I was weighed to start off our 'biggest loser' challenge at the club.

I'm down 5 lbs from last MONDAY.

Holy COW.

So...there are multiple reasons.

1 is definitely the detox, no question.  I feel fabulous.  And it's funny, as much as I LOVE all the stuff that's proven to be not great for me, when I'm cooking for myself now I don't WANT it, you know? I want a giant plate of veggies with some sort of meat.  Dinner tonight was a chicken breast smothered in Epicure's Italian sansel (I prefer the Red Garlic for sure) with carrots and green beans. It was DELISH.

2 is definitely...I was being visited by my, uh, monthly 'FRIEND' last Monday. hahaha And that usually, honestly, puts about 5 lbs on me each time anyway.

3 - I'm working like crazy at kickboxing. It's kicking my butt but I'm kicking back. MUAHAHAHA!

Anyway, that's the weekend re-cap.  Detox goes 'till next Monday, then I'll be reporting on Cheat Meal Tuesday (BOOyah!  ...unless I do it Wednesday 'cause I teach piano on Tuesdays and it's hard to make dinner....so if I hold off a day and do it Wednesday I can spend ages in the kitchen prepping my feast...which will totally include a giant cookie, by the way.)

Okay, I have some chillaxing to fit in before falling asleep tonight!  Happy Monday, everyone!

Oh, and check out my post on Crafty Betties today, if you're into crafty stuff - we post Mondays and Thursdays about all sorts of different things!  It's very Holly-Homemakerish, and very cool. ;)

Cheers!

Detox Day 4

Today, I was lacking.  I don't know. I got my to-do list and then some done today, but I lack....zest. hahaha  It's all good, I'm fine and dandy, I just had a bit of a meh-feeling day.

SO... we went pretty easy for food.

Boiled eggs, snap peas, and a few cashews for breakfast.

Crab meat for snack (yum!)

Leftover pork stirfry for lunch with a salad on the side - romaine lettuce, snap peas (they're so easy to prep), and a sprinkle of sunflower seeds.

Dinner we ordered pizza from the place around the corner - I had wings (they're not breaded - win!) and another nice big salad - iceberg lettuce, green peppers, onions.

I watched people eat giant cookie & ice cream, wept a little bit inside, and drank a huge glass of water. hahaha

On to the rest of my meh-feeling night! Maybe I'll fold more laundry... :-D

Cheers!

Detox Day 3

Today is Mr. Man's birthday!  He's OLD. hahaha Yikes. Keeps freaking me out.... oy vey.

This morning I made Mr. Man and Little Miss special birthday french toast for breakfast...then I rinsed out my egg dipping container thing and whipped myself up some scrambled eggs with chopped up onion and a wee bit of ham.  It was yummy, and extra quick because everything was already out for my sweeties' breakfasts. :-)

Lunch was teriyaki salmon with beans - Mr. Man okayed the menu and even chose the vegetables for lunch.  I cheated and used Epicure's teriyaki mix again (it's SO FAST and ALMOST as good as my homemade... I USUALLY cheat and use it if I have any around) and marinated my salmon for about 15 minutes each side, then popped the whole thing under the broiler on HI for a few minutes on each side - I've taken to just cooking my salmon in the marinade for the little bit of extra flavour without constantly basting or anything like that.

Yes, I am a lazy cook.  :-D

 For dinner I made spaghetti - it's delicious, everyone likes it, including Little Miss (though tonight she sure gave us a run for our money - OY!)  and with all my birthday cooking it was nice and easy.  AND used up some of the ground chicken we got at the store the other day ($2 for a 1lb-ish pkg! BAZING!)

Now, when I make spaghetti sauce I use 1lb of some sort of ground meat - usually beef, but second-most often, chicken, and occasionally, turkey.  My dad made it once with ground sirloin or something....drool  It really doesn't matter, just some ground meat. Extra lean, of course, if you can swing it.

Cook up your meat, drain it, then add 1 chopped up onion.  Heat that until the onion turns a bit clear, and add about a teaspoon each basil, oregano, and garlic powder.  Mix that up, and add 2 cans of tomato/spaghetti sauce (whatever brand is on sale that week for a buck!  hahaha)

All you have to do is heat it through, but if you can leave it on lo for about half an hour it gives all the flavours time to mix and get yummy.  Totally depends on how much time I have whether or not I bother with letting it hang out on my stove or if I just start dishing it out onto plates!

Now, you may recall that I'm not eating PASTA and be wondering how in the heck this works with my making spaghetti for dinner.

I made noodles for Mr. Man and Little Miss (who decided to wait for dessert instead of eating her sgetti - argh!)

Let me introduce you to my fabulous friend, Monsieur Spaghetti Squash:

YUMMY and easy easy easy.  

First, I chop the thing in half, lengthwise (or as in the last couple of cases, I have Mr. Man do it for me because my hand hurts too much to grip the knife as ridiculously hard as I need to - it's akin to cutting through a pumpkin.) 

Then, scrape out the crap from the inside (just like when you're scraping out your to-be jack-o-lantern!)

Crap inside

All scraped out!

Then I put a wee bit of water on a cookie sheet, turn my oven on nice and high, like 425 degrees, and put the squash halves open-side down in the water on the cookie sheet.  Put them in the oven (I don't usually bother waiting for it to heat up - they'll cook as it heats), and then leave them for 25-30 minutes, ish. I don't know exactly how long I leave them in - I do them first and put them in the oven so when I'm done everything else they're ready! 

When they're done, flip them fleshy-side up and attack it with a fork - the squash like, falls out and, surprise, looks like spaghetti!

It's a delicious side-dish, but I love mine slathered in spaghetti sauce. 

YUM! 

 So, that's what I ate tonight.

Cravings today??

Giant cookie cake. hahaha  Because Little Miss and I made one for Mr. Man.  I mean, tell me this is NOT super tempting:

And while the finished product has a bit of an ew, yuck, disgusting factor and should absolutely be featured on Cake Wrecks, that factor was achieved with liberal application of icing and sprinkles...... 

OH how my tummy ACHES to partake of this horribly ugly dessert concoction!

If I weren't detoxing I would totally be splurging on this with my family.  sigh  OH well!

Okay, that's my blogging for today's food.  Thankful Thursdays will hopefully return after the detox is over and I can think about something other than food during the day. hahaha

I have dessert and birthday presents to serve.  Cheers! Happy eating!

Detox Day 2

Today, I did groceries. hahaha

For breakfast I made egg-in-a-frame using peppers as the frame - I saw this in a commercial on TV last week and have made it a couple of times and it's YUMMY!  I don't know what exactly they did in the commercial, but I slice a pepper NOT the long way, so I end up with 'round' bits of pepper, then plop them in the frying pan and crack an egg in the middle.

Easy peasy and supper yummy.  

Lunch was for Mr. Man and myself again, and right after my groceries run, so I had more options! hahaha  We went for minute steaks with onions & mushrooms and a side of peas - I love me some frozen peas! SO quick and SO tasty!

So we sliced and diced our vegetables (and by WE I mean Mr. Man - he sliced and diced while I put groceries away and prepped the pan and cheered him on - thanks darlin'!)

And I've taken to buying up meat when I'm at the store that has this FABULOUS little orange sticker on it! So eating this was has actually proven to be much CHEAPER than my groceries before, which I am constantly surprised and thrilled about.  Huzzah cheap meat! hahaha

So we fried up the veggies for a while, then painted some BBQ sauce onto the minute steaks, and plopped them down in the pan with the veggies.  Cooked the whole kit n' caboodle for a couple minutes, turning the steaks, and voila: 

LUNCH!

It was super yummy.

Dinner was pork tenderloin cut up and cooked in a yummy teriyaki sauce (using Epicure's Teriyaki Seasoning) with frozen stir-fry veggies and I felt like cauliflower, so cauliflower. :-D  I made rice for Mr. Man and Little Miss as well to go with their stir fry, but I just ate the cauliflower and stir fry. It was yummy.   And another super quick one to make.

Sorry the picture's so much worse - the sun was WAY down by dinnertime, it being winter and all, soooo my natural light LEFT me! hahaha  BOO! Don't they know I'm taking photos of food?!?!

Snacks - as I didn't have any nuts at breakfast I've had a handful to snack on, and bought myself some sugar peas for crunching on when the need arises. Maybe tomorrow I'll mix it up and have nuts and veggies at ONCE and call THAT a snack!

So, sorry this is a boring post for those looking for the ins and outs of life, but nothing much happened today, really.  I chatted with my mommy on the phone, firmed up plans for Mr. Man's birthday (tomorrow) celebrating on the weekend aaaaaand cleaned the kitchen! Yay me!

Until tomorrow, then! Happy eating!

Detox Day 1

Today, was a good day.  It really was.  I tidied up, vacuumed the bedrooms (yes I vacuumed. I know, right? Win!)  Went outside of my comfort zone a little and uh, 'applied' for a wee teeny tiny little bitty 'job' I really wanted, had a fabulous lunch, practiced singing for this production I'm participating in in March, helped Mr. Man work out some of his work woes, GOT the teeny tiny no-big-deal-but-HUZZAH job (more on that later, I promise. It's not actually coming up for a while, so don't get your knickers knotted wondering/guessing about it. I'll tell you when it's time!) watched a tv show, fell asleep on the couch for a bit, taught piano lessons, played lego, ate dinner prepared by my Mr., and went to an awesome kickboxing class.

See? It really WAS a good day. :-D I TOLD you!

Detox day 1.... I need to do some groceries. hahaha  AND I need to place an Epicure order! Oy!  I'll have to put that on tomorrow's to-do list...

Anyway, there has been some interest not only in what I'm eating, but recipes and ideas, as well.  So, I figure I'll just tell you what I ate each day and if there's a recipe involved I'll share it, sound good??

I most often start my mornings now with eggs - I have been cautioned against eating the same thing every day because you can develop food sensitivities, BUT I'm just not that creative and I really LIKE eggs.  And on busy mornings I have boiled eggs - I pop a couple of eggs in a pot, NEARLY cover them with water, pop them on the stove, and then get back to my everything-that-needs-to-be-done in the morning.  It's easy, it's yummy, it's not cereal. Which I now haven't eaten in months - weird!   Anyway, I also eat a small bunch of nuts. Right now, usually cashews (they're my favourite - I don't actually like nuts very much so this is one of the hardest things about detoxing I find) or pistachios, neither of which are technically nuts, I know, but we're ignoring that 'cause they totally count.  And when I say a small bunch of nuts I'm talking like, 5 or 6 cashews.

I'm going to show you my lunch today - it's the only "recipe"-able thing I ate today, really!  And it's not really a recipe - I throw whatever's laying around into my salad. Yum!   Today I had romaine lettuce, some cabbage, some broccoli-slaw, crushed pecans and sunflower seeds.  I cleaned and chopped and threw it all together with a couple cut-up chicken breasts (Mr. Man was home - salad for two!) that I cooked in olive oil (this isn't the best oil for cooking, but it's what I have. I've been looking for coconut oil or something that's more stable than olive buuuut I really can't be bother popping from store to store to store getting different parts of my grocery list. If I can't get it at one store then I probably won't get it. hahaha) and sprinkled liberally with Epicure's Red Garlic Sansel.  Then I use just a wee bit of an oil-based dressing - ideally I would make my own olive-oil based dressing but I'm often too lazy to bother so get some balsamic vinaigrette or something from the store, aaaand the DELICIOUS combination ends up looking like...

This is SO SO SO yummy.  Usually I put in diced up mushrooms, but I didn't have any today. 

Yes, salad without tomatoes or cucumber.  I HATE tomatoes and cucumbers. Ick. Ick ick ick.  And don't tell me that cucumber has no taste. It TOTALLY does and ruins EVERY SINGLE BITE I accidentally (or out of courtesy, purposefully....shudder) choke back.  

And then dinner I was GOING to do this yummy pork stir fry, buuut as I mentioned I totally fell asleep and then had to dash off to teach piano, so when I got home Mr. Man offered to make us all bacon and eggs (WIN - this is TOTALLY MEAT so edible on detox days! BOOyah!) and I took him up on it.  I almost NEVER eat eggs for other meals when I have them for breakfast, but today was, obviously an exception.  And my dinner was DELISH. (Thanks, Mr. Man! MUAH!)

Snacking today?  Just chipping away at my bag of broccoli-slaw.  I have to replenish my veggie stash, hopefully tomorrow, so I have a bit more variety tomorrow.

What am I craving??  An ORANGE.  I found not eating fruit the hardest part of detoxing last time I did it, too.  I LOVE fruit.  I LOVE sitting on the couch at the end of the day, zoning out to something stupid on Netflix, and chowing down on a giant orange.  Drooling.  Last time the hardest thing was not eating apples.  The difference is probably that I had a big bag of BEAUTIFUL apples when I started last time, and this time, there are four giant, fabulously juicy bright orange navel oranges taunting me in the kitchen. 

Sigh

And now, I'm off!  Hope your Tuesday was as fabulous as mine!  Happy detoxing! :-D