This post title is in honor of my spanglish sistah and my visiting foodies. But first and foremost, I just wanted to say that re-reading my last post made me feel so whiney. Not a fan. I definitely did not mean to sound all “woe-is-me” and “there’s-no-rest-for-the-weary” because I’m going to be working on thanksgiving. So let me explain. I would definitely head home if I could – the more family time the better! Kyle actually headed home Sunday morning, which I very much encouraged him to do (why not take as much time off as his job would allow?). Unfortunately for me, the hospital doesn’t close up shop for people to stuff their faces (sounds like a perfectly legit reason to me, but I guess that’s why I’m not a hospital administrator…). How awesome would it be if everyone just promised not to cardiac arrest near the holidays?
Anyways, I will be working on Thanksgiving. And the day before. But today I was free to cook…and EAT! (duh)
I had a massive frothy cuppa joe and an equally massive bowl of [me] & goji cereal. Sadly, I have reached the bottom of the barrel :( Time to order more.
I polished off the last bit as a dry snack while reading blogs and brainstorming my vegan Thanksgiving meal.
New York Big Apple State of Mind. Why is NYC called the big apple anyways? What would I do without wikipedia…
I had a little snackplate for lunch, including: falafel, apple slices, spelt pretz, and the food that unites the world tastes good on everything, hummus.
Obviously I took some time to digest, but after that, I headed to the gym for some serrrrrious mileage. I’m not joking, I was totally ready to get my cardio on. I did 6 miles in the gym, but then felt antsy and wanted to really stretch my legs…so I headed to Riverside park for another 4 miles. It was crisp outside, and I was cruising. Loves. Eventually I made it back to the apartment and made another manzana-full plate.
If anyone’s keeping track, these are apples number 4 and 5. Boo-ya!
After getting decent I took mid-town by storm for some errands, then headed downtown. Guess where I went for dinner?
And guess who my hot dates were?
Pssshhh, the peeps this post is dedicated to of course (Brooke, Kailey, and Sarah)! (ahem, for whom this post is dedicated – happy Kailey?)
So fun. No other words to say really. I felt like we could’ve chatted all night…much to the dismay of our neighbors? I don’t think it was our volume or constant laughter that annoyed them so much as Brooke shooting a rubber band at them. ;)
I headed home to pack my lunch and get ready for another day of work.
More apple love. This is now a full blown obsession. Someone may need to call Promises.
P.S. Happy Birthday to my FAVE 25 year old sister!
Gotta love the hot bar!
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Holy moly- I thought I loved fruit!! I have to tell you that you have inspired me in the last days to have multiple apples with cinnamon. I don’t know why I never ate them with cinnamon before- but I was a fool! So yummy!!! I also had whole foods hot bar for dinner last night- Carrot ginger soup in a bread boule.. wicked good! Love your posts (and you didn’t seem winey to me!) 🙂
Just catching up—I’m sorry I have been such a crap blog reader lately. Garhh! Working on Thanksgiving?! Um, that sucks. You have my permission to complain as much as you want.
Sounds like a fun bloggie meetup group 🙂 We must do a meet up someday! I imagine a Whole Foods takeover…
OK…I’m sending you to Apple Eaters Anonymous!
WHA..no pikchas of the lovelies!!! Hhmm better get together again soon to properly document it 😀 I’m staying in Bost for Tday tooooo, so i feel ya on the homesickness and self-pity, we’ll just wallow in it 😀 LOVE ya boo!
WF hot bar looooooove. Sounds like even though you’re not with family, you’re still surrounding yourself with some wonderful people!
look at you gettin your errands and blogger meetups on 🙂 glad you had such a fun time!
i could never live anywhere else BECAUSE ny is the big apple. where the heck else would i get apples..
Congrats on pounding out those 10 miles! You can eat all the apples you want 🙂
Great eats but it’s ” la gran manzana” actually!
I bow to you the Apple Queen!
It’s OK if you whine a bit it is hard to work on holidays. Why people can’t stay heathy one day a year I’ll never know! I’m not sure how my job will work with holidays, I imagine it’s my choice (I’m in child life), but who knows guess I’ll find out next year!
YUM hot bar I wish we had one here, but ours has almost no food in it which makes it not worth going to.
I’m thankful that the hospital doesn’t close up shop on Thanksgiving – I actually went to the ER a few years back Thanksgiving morning. It was the quickest trip EVER! No one was in there!!
SO JEAL of your meet up!! My bestie and I are talking about coming to NYC this summer so FINGERS CROSSED we’ll be able to eat hummus and be merry!
i totally wish that i had a whole foods near me! but then again..it would put a major dent in my wallet..but i bet itd be so worth it..
doodette, you whine your little heart out! I feel for ya! you are such a hard worker and deserve some time offff. Want me to chat with your boss?! I can be very persuasive 😉
Remember that time I accidentally SHOT a rubber band with extreme force to the parolees at the table next to us? And he gave us attitude and I thought my chana masala was going to come back out if he started to approach? But he didn’t. And we just went on on our merry way with HAPPY TALKS for hours and hours. YAY! SO FUN! I cannot wait to catch up again but in…CaLifOrnIa YeE gIrL!
Loves you and your BADA$$ running self,
HoMeGiRL
One can never eat too many apples..
and hummus is the great unifier!
apple obsession is a-ok!
good job on your run girl! Hope you have a great day today!
gah, i could not be more jealous of that bloggy meet-up. i wish i could have been there with you four fabulous ladies. loves.
How appropriate for me to be reading your post after slicing up a GIGANTOR of a manzana for work today. I gave K a lecture on eating an apple a day thing and she said she prefers bananas and blueberries. Those don’t have the same ring to it like apple does. Meh.
Inspired by your mucho mileage fo sho, but for now, this brown girl is staying off her feet due to a possible stress fracture. (Unconfirmed still. Waiting on my xray results from the doc.)
Have a great day mi rubia! I await for the next post and wish you a very Happy Thanksgiving. I am thankful that the thousands of miles away haven’t kept us apart. =)
I hope work is painless and no one comes into your ward after like choking on a turkey bone or something and you have to treat them 🙂
Anyway lady, wish I could hang out with you, Sarah, and Snackey. God that would ROCK!!!
Happy TG!!!!!
thanks crystal! i swear, whenever i cant think of what i want i just go to apples by default…not a bad thing, i guess. haha, glad you enjoyed the post (whiny or not)!
carrot ginger soup in a bread bowl – holy yum!
haha, i think youre dead on!
yea so im definitely a little tarde on this one. but pienso que we need to do more NYC eating JUNTAS. perhaps we can find some innocent New York senoras and raid their fridges. could be fun.
SO JEALS of your falafel and WF hot bar. it has been WAY too long since i had hot bar.
happy birthday to your sis!!
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