Sat 10 Mar

Hoping to get most of the packing/vacation prep done today since I have to be home with the pager this weekend. I started collecting things last Saturday, so today I'll try to finalize choices and get things put into bags. I was thrilled to find my lost sunglasses last night. We went to Ranchitos for the coconut shrimp and I asked the waitress if I might have left them there last week. I was thrilled when she found them in a bin behind the desk. Saves me needing to purchase another pair for vacation,

We will take Dad out for dinner next Friday night to Tokyo Steak House for hibachi for his birthday. Michael and Aly will come, as will Grandma. Wish you could be with us, too.

Gave in at the grocery store to a small pack (2) of prune ponczkas. I have been trying to eschew the sweets but the season for ponczkas is short and they are so yummy.

Oooh, I had fun with making supper tonight. I got to use one of the gadgets from the basket I won last December that I had thought I would never use - the Pineapple Corer/Slicer. It is SLICK! You attach the handle and set it on top of the pineapple after cutting off both ends and just screw downward. The little angled blade makes perfect slices while the center piece cleanly cuts the core. When you get to the bottom, you just lift the pineapple clear of the rind with minimal waste, remove the handle and turn the spiral onto a plate. One cut makes it into nice little rings. (Then I dipped each ring in a small dish of rum and grilled them - yum!)


Food:

7:15 am Prune ponczka, 1/2 grapefruit, 140 g strawberries, coffee, 38 g Irish soda bread
12:30 pm Blueberry soy shake, 2 large scrambled eggs, 1/4 c chopped red pepper, 1 large chopped cherry tomato, basil/thyme, 1 tbl shredded cheddar, 42 g Irish soda bread
6:45 pm 1 chicken/smoked mozzarella/artichoke sausage, 1 hot dog bun, 1 tbl pineapple salsa, 4 slices rum grilled pineapple, 4 large baby carrots, 1/2 c Grillin' Beans, 12 oz skim milk



Exercise:

10:25-11:15 am The Firm Bootcamp DVD
3:15-4:45 pm Walk with Dad in town