Good morning everyone!
Well, my weekend was good and bad. The best part was that my bf and I went shopping for an engagement ring and finally found one.
He'll be picking it up from resizing and having the diamond set next weekend while I'm away visiting a friend, then he'll be hiding it somewhere until the "right time" to propose. I'm so excited!
The other good things are also bad things -- I ate a lot of delicious food! Saturday morning we went to the local farmer's market. Bf bought corn and green beans, I bought multigrain bread and goat cheese. After that, we went to have our one meal out per week -- brunch! Well, it was more like breakfast at lunchtime. We went to a little restaurant that only serves breakfast and lunch, and I had a Monte Cristo sandwich (ham and cheese sandwich, with french toast for bread!) and some OJ (and a couple bites of his food too). Best guess from fitday is that that one meal was 1200 calories by itself!
Later that afternoon while we were out shopping we stopped at Wendy's because I was thirsty, where I drank most of a small Sprite and I split a medium frosty with him. Toss on another 700 calories or so!
I had a healthy dinner, but nothing could make up for the damage already done (AND I had two glasses of wine with dinner
), so the total for the day was about 2400 calories. It was sooooo yummy though.
Yesterday was okay calorie-wise, even though I baked muffins! I had a package of ground flaxseed that I had bought a while back that had a recipe on the back for flax and oat bran muffins, so I had to try it! They came out really yummy, and my best estimate is they are about 150 cals/muffin (but very filling, and largely "good" calories, not "empty" calories). I attempted the cottage cheese, also. I still think it's kind of weird, but I guess it's edible. I brought some for lunch today!
I also went shopping yesterday (another good and bad thing), where I got some great clothes, but spent a good amount of money doing it. I went to the NY & Co store that just opened up in our local mall, and loved it! I want to buy everything in that store, seriously. I also got a nice pair of jeans from Express (they were having a $20 off all denim sale), which I'm hoping will last a long time (they ought to, I paid $40 for them which is twice as much as I usually spend on jeans).
Anyway, sorry for the long post (my posts are always too long). I just had a busy weekend! Today I got some bad news at school already -- I said before I was going to be giving a presentation at this conference in Shanghai in a few weeks . . . well, they just switched me from giving an oral presentation to the poster session. Now I only have a couple weeks to make a poster, and the poster is much less prestigious than an oral.
Oh well, at least there will be less pressure.