Good morning upper west siders

Yeah, too bad I don’t live on the East side…then I’d be a true gossip girl.  Riiiiight.

 

I was in a barista kind of mood this morning 😀

Froth machine + silk + truvia + cinn = the best coffee EVER!

Even better?  I had the day off, AGAIN!  Plus I am going home on Thursday for a girlfriend’s bridal shower/bachelorette weekend, so I’m beyond excited.  California sunshine here I come…

PB Puffins and an apple to get the day off right.  Somehow I wound up talking on the phone (mostly with my mom) for hours, and the next time I looked at the clock it was 3 pm!  What!?  So I made myself a really late lunch.

Soynut butter quesadilla, blueberry Chobz, and dried figs.

And a tall glass of home-made iced coffee (heavy on the silk).

And off to the gym I went…tread mill, elliptical, AND spinning (sweet!!)  I came home to quite a nice surprise too…

PACKAGE!!!!!!!!

I ordered sugar cookie sleigh ride tea last week, so I was like a second semester senior checking the mail every day for big packages.  Remember those days?  I don’t miss that phase of life!

So now I’ve got six glorious boxes of my fave tea…oh, happy day. 

As if the day could get any better, I had a dinner date with my girlfriend at Nanoosh (hummus bar heaven).  Me and Jess are both Upper West Siders, so I’m pretty sure Nanoosh took us into consideration when they were deciding where to start their business (obvi)!! 

I ordered a hummus wrap, which had spinach, cukes, tomatoes, bell pepps, quinoa and HUMMUS all in a whole wheat wrap. 

Oh. My. Goodness.  I wish my wraps tasted this good.  The freshness and crunch of the cucumber with the creamy smooth hummus was delish beyond words.  I’m going to have to start adding that to mine!  Genius!  On the side I had a quinoa salad with organic quinoa, red pepps, red onion, roasted walnuts and raisins.  I avoided the walnuts like the plague, of course, but the rest of the salad was SO good. 

Jess got the hummus with sun dried tomato pesto, and a side of carrots.  I’ll let you read her description of the whole wheat pitas, trust me, it’s accurate.

 

After dinner we decided to take a trip to my local health foods store (aka my idea of life support), so I could introduce Jess to the shelf that would single handedly rock her world lead to her ultimate demise.  I’m talking about the vegan dessert fridge.  How in the world Jess missed this key area in the store, is BEYOND me, but hey, that’s what she’s got me for!!  ***On a side note – I was also the first person to get her trashed in college too.  I’m noticing a theme of corruption!!!  Mwahahaha (evil laugh).  Erin can vouch for me, I’m not lying, “addicting” doesn’t even describe how amazing carob raisins are…

 

For dessert, I polished off this bag no prob and then moved on to figs and coconut date rolls.  Kyle was working late, so I may have had a bit more.

Oh SCSR, how I’ve missed you…let’s never fight again.