Day 29: Benadryl Haze

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5 Thoughts You know today is going badly when you started sneezing right after you used your prescription allergy nose spray AND eye drop. I know that a day of sneezing fit is tiring. I didn’t know how much worse it would be when you add coughing to that too. I love my job and I adore my team. It’s so good to get to have lunch with all of them. Benadryl is a miracle drug. Benadryl usually makes me sleepy but somehow today I was extra drowsy. But then again, I had TWO other allergy meds already in my...
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Day 27: Holy Crap Kind of Day

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5 Thoughts Holy crap! My abs look AWESOME. But damn, I’m tired of coughing… Holy crap! I’m hungry right on cue all day today. Back on the horse so fast after 3 days of eating seven times a day willy nilly. Holy crap! I didn’t starve and/or crave junk food on my Meatless Tuesday! Yay for me! Holy crap! Today went by FAST! Holy crap! This experiment is almost over! Today’s Photo While waiting for Brandon to get his hair cut, I browsed some fashion magazines. Not sure how I feel about crop top and overalls making a comeback. Well,...
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Day 26: Much Ado About Nothing

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5 Thoughts The new mattress is a wee too firm. However, it’s nice to NOT feel Brandon when he tosses and turns. Upon seeing a picture of a pancake on my friend’s Facebook, I decided to make pancakes for breakfast. I dropped an egg, then overheated butter in the microwave so it exploded. While cleaning everything up, the buttery glass tray slipped and shattered, thankfully, into the kitchen sink. Eventually, pancakes were made and eaten and I gave up on today. TV Binge report: Machete Kills (Best. Movie. EVER!). The Normal Heart. (I totally cried, by the way. Matt Bomer...
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Day 25: Easy Like Sunday Morning

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5 Thoughts It’s Sunday. Why am I up at 7 a.m. without the alarm for no reason at all? Oh right. I started coughing. So much for going to bed without Nyquil for the first time in a week. What a beautiful day outside and pleasant inside. It’s a great day to do whatever! And so we went mattress shopping. And it was virtually painless (except for when I cut my thumb on the laminated price sheet). We were in and out of the store in less than 30 minutes. Our new mattress arrived within a few hours. TV Binge...
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Braised Chicken with Baby Artichokes

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When I scheduled a test kitchen day at work, I didn’t think about it being the first day of the Hobbit Diet. Not that it would change anything but it was interesting for me to try to log what I just made into MyFitnessPal app. What was I going to test? Braised Chicken with Baby Artichokes, originally from Williams-Sonoma blog. Fortunately, someone else made a similar recipe–actually, one of the recipes I considered testing–and added the calorie counts to the database. Surprisingly, this recipe is quite a healthy one at 280 calories per serving (if serving 6). My lab rats…I meant,...
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Day 24: A Day of Doing Nothing

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5 Thoughts I’m doing absolutely nothing today. Except for making breakfast… …picking up my car (yay!)… …getting a massage… …and watch LOTS of TV. Hello, my Netflix list. It’s been a long time! Today’s Photo Robin Hood is finally returned to me whole, and with new shoes! There were scratches on the bumper for over a year that has bugged Brandon so much. Since his car was fixed up beautifully at the body shop, he dropped mine off to get fixed as well. So we had been a one-car household for almost 3 weeks. I got my car back from...
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