Spent a lot of time this morning looking at a Healthy Gift Suggestions slideshow from a SparkPeople email. They had some excellent products in a variety of categories. One of the most interesting was a Fruit-of-the-Month club that features locally-grown in-season items from small farms, unlike the Harry and David mega-business. They have regional centers, with Chicago being the Midwest hub. All the items come from within 200 miles. The current weekly package on the website has several varieties of apples, acorn squash, radishes, kale, and thyme. I bookmarked the site, so I may look into it in the future. They offer small, med, and large boxes and I would feel better about them than the huge companies.
I made out very well at work yesterday. I had a home visit in the morning with a very sweet client who has a black cat like Jordan. We have often talked about our kitties, so I told her that I had to put Jordan down. It was pretty obvious that I was feeling down and depressed so I had felt the need to explain my lack of enthusiasm. I came up from lunch and she had brought in the most gorgeous vase of a dozen roses interspersed with pine boughs with a note hoping that it will help me feel better. I swore, I cried, and I took them to my boss' office to ask what to do since I'm not supposed to accept gifts from clients. She agreed that it couldn't very well be returned, so I could take it home and just have a talk with her that she should use her money for her family's needs and that her sympathy was enough - our relationship is about her, not me. I called her in the afternoon to tell her this which she promptly blew off to tell me that she really appreciates my involvement in her life and her family's. The roses are absolutely gorgeous.
I also won the basket raffle for the kitchen gadgets with all manner of fun stuff, and my Secret Santa who had not given me anything all week came through with a Coach wallet and a lovely black knit scarf. I passed the wallet on to Michael as a Christmas gift for his girlfriend who will probably appreciate it more than I would have since my current wallet is in good shape and functional. I plan to have fun going through my box of kitchen goodies today.
Made the dough for sugar and molasses cookies; hopefully will bake them tonight. Kurt & Barb stopped over with some Satsuma mandarins from Chuck & Karen. The one I sampled was delicious.
Ran out to Fazoli's to try their <400 cal menu before tackling cookie baking.
I can get free 2-day shipping at REI for the pedals, but I need to know which ones to order. Some are $269, some are $150. You can have whichever ones will work best for you, but you need to direct me which to order.
Food:
7:30 am Hodgson's Mills multigrain hot cereal, 1/2 c blueberries, 12 g pecans, 2 oz light original soy milk, 100 g blackberries, 1/4 large cantaloupe, coffee
11:30 am Satsuma mandarin
12 30 pm 3.5 oz roast lamb, 57 g stollen, 1 c fruit salad
6:30 pm Fazoli's chicken pepper penne pasta, 1 breadstick
7:00 pm 1/2 c skim milk, 3 tbl TJ sipping chocolate mix
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