Au Chocolat

Special K Chocolately Delight, fat-free milk, and Rain Forest Nut coffee.

I guess I had this cereal in honor of the fact that we were confirmed as attendees for the 2008 AllCandy Expo in Chicago! Yay!I wish I wasn't as excited about this as I really am, but as a life-long candy-lover (yeah, obvs!) I can't wait to live out my real-life Willy Wonka fantasies. (Note: This has nothing to do with Gene Wilder in purple top hat with matching velvet undies. ) It has to do with candy! Wall-to-wall blaring convention center glitz with enough free candy samples to put me in a diabetic coma. Gooooooo insulin!!

All the big name players will be representin': Mars, Hershey, Nestle, Cadbury Adams, NECCO (I freaking hate NECCO wafers though), Pez, Lindt & Sprungli (what's a Sprungli?), Wrigley's, Jelly Belly, and the Ferrara Pan Co. (Don't know Ferrara Pan Co.? You only think you don't. Hello Lemonheads, Atomic Fireballs, Boston Baked Beans, and Red Hots! I defy you to tell me you aren't familiar with any one of those.) It's not *just* candy though, salty snacks and granola bars will also be in the house (Jerky Snack Food, Utz). Hotlix will be there, and I'm not 100% certain but I think they make the tequila flavored lollipops with a worm in them. I don't even want to begin that discussion-- tequila does not have worms!! But I digress. I also want to see what is up with Oral Fixation Mints. (Oh, that was easy. I'm intrigued now.)

Naturally, I'm going wearing my Marketing Assistant/Buyer hat for Giovanni's Deli in beautiful Fair Lawn, NJ. The deli is thinking about branching out into the direction of gourmet chocolate and fine candy gifts, and we are going to check out what's innovative and available in the niche market of fine and unique candies. (That sounds pretty good acutally.)

Strawberry Waffles Forever

Nutri-grain Whole Wheat Eggos, Better'N Eggs, Sugar-Free maple syrup, strawberries, and hazelnut coffee. Looks good, doesn't it? My husband commented that it's been difficult to remember that he/we are on a diet! Let's hope that's the trick.

There's Oatmeal in our Slacks

Had breakfast at work this morning: Brown-sugar instant oatmeal, a banana, and, French Vanilla coffee.

And yes, that is an "Animaniacs" mug, circa 1994-ish. I still love me some Pinky and the Brain. But Rita and Runt always irritated me, as did Buttons and Mindy. There was never enough Slappy Squirrel though. I am very attached to this mug. It's kind of thin though. Poorly constructed. I worry about it breaking. (These are the weighty issues that consume me during the day, important meaning-of-life type stuff.) I guess if something happened to it, I could probably replace it on eBay. (A quick search just showed me that I can indeed do that-- there is one mug for $7.99 in "fine" condition. Good to know.) Maybe I should get an extra, just in case. That would actually be kind of pathetic. Just like this entry.

Chocolate Covered Strawberries (Almost)

Special K Chocolatey Delight (which I love, despite not being a huge fan of chocolate), fat-free milk, and fresh strawberries. Oh, and Rain Forest Nut coffee. The Special K CD is really good. They advertise it as something you're supposed to eat as a late-night snack when you get the sugar-chocolate craving munchies, but I am just fine with having it for breakfast. I pretty much like all the flavors of Special K, although really, what a horrible name. I guess because I'm fat, and have to eat diet cereal for breakfast, I'm also retarded too?

I saw a rainbow this morning while I was walking my dog. I am taking it as some sort of good omen.

Looks Way Less Healthy Than it Was

Two Eggo Nutri-grain fat free waffles, 1 banana, sugar-free maple syrup (not great, but you know) and fat free Cool Whip dusted with cinnamon. Oh, and Irish Cream flavored coffee. (I love you K-Cups!) And I didn't get hungry again until about 11:30am. It looks pretty awesome in the picture, doesn't it?

As I drove in to work this morning, there was a Coca-Cola truck in front of me advertising some sort of new "easy hold easy open" bottle. This seemed kind of odd to me, since I really can't remember having ever had an issue opening or holding a 20oz bottle of Coke varietals. So when I got into work, I checked the Coke site and found a press release about the newly shaped bottles. The new bottle is supposed to offer me "enhanced on the-go-convenience" for my "immediate refreshment." Whoa!! How can they do such a wondrous thing, you ask? Through the addition of "texture and grip enhancements." Fantastic! Now Coke Zero is ribbed for my pleasure!

Special O.K.

Special K Red Berries and skim milk and hazlenut coffee. Can you just feel the health?

I don't know if it's health that I'm feeling, since I was up half the night, tossing and turning, my dog peed on my bed, and I had to sleep on a towel at 3:30am. And I still got up and went to the gym. If this is health I'm feeling, it kind of feels like shit.

Bagel Sunday

Everything bagel with veggie cream cheese, whitefish salad on the side (my family is Jewish, what can I say?), and rain forest nut coffee. We are both seriously going on diets tomorrow, so I figured I might as well get what I want. My breakfasts are going to be healthy from now on, I promise.

Leggo My Eggnog Coffee

Yogurt Burst Cheerios (Vanilla) with skim milk. The eggnog was in my coffee, not in my cereal. It was eggnog flavored coffee too, so it was a double-blast of noggocity.

It's Saturday, which is a great, since my breakfast yesterday was about the only good thing that happened to me that morning. I found myself unwittingly in the middle of a power struggle between two higher-ups that ultimately had nothing to do with me. Except for the fact that after being encouraged by my boss to make more decisions without his input, I made a decision based on input from the other party, and it was apparently the wrong decision. My boss took it out on the other party, who I guess was perceived as sticking her nose in where it didn't belong, or, even purposely and subtly persuading me to do the exact opposite of what my boss wanted. I corrected it immediately, but a flurry of tension and snotty emails ensued. Bleh. This morning is much better, probably because I'm still in my pajamas, and about to go play Super Mario Galaxy.

Eggsactly Cheesy

Yeah, not the healthiest option, but it's Friday. And we haven't started our diets yet. The new year began in the middle of the week-- who starts a diet on a Wednesday? It's blasphemy.