For those of you who cannot see it well, that juice be GREEN, yo! And the extra protein is a quarter cup of Oregon hazelnuts.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Drink Yer Juice, Shelby
Final dose of juice, then I'm onto raw food the next couple of days. This has been the best juice fast ever. It is my fourth, and the only one that I added extra protein to. Thanks to Catherine Egan, my fitness trainer!
For those of you who cannot see it well, that juice be GREEN, yo! And the extra protein is a quarter cup of Oregon hazelnuts.
For those of you who cannot see it well, that juice be GREEN, yo! And the extra protein is a quarter cup of Oregon hazelnuts.
Monday, April 25, 2011
The Juice is Loose!
Here's my breakfast, lunch and snacks for the next few days. I found spirulina in tablet form so I don't have to mix the stinky green powder with my juice.
I'll be getting 36g of protein a day from the spirulina and some extra protein from the following nuts:
1/4 cup raw pumpkin seeds = >8g protein
1/4 cup raw cashews = 5g protein
1/4 cup raw almonds = 6g protein
55g total per day. Different internet sources are confusing me on the amount of protein I should be aiming for. It varies between 25-57g per day.
I'll be getting 36g of protein a day from the spirulina and some extra protein from the following nuts:
1/4 cup raw pumpkin seeds = >8g protein
1/4 cup raw cashews = 5g protein
1/4 cup raw almonds = 6g protein
55g total per day. Different internet sources are confusing me on the amount of protein I should be aiming for. It varies between 25-57g per day.
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Whoopsie!
So, I took a couple of days off my diet to eat fish and chips at Fire on the Mountain and a tempeh Reuben and chocolate stout beer at Proper Eats. In my defense, the fish was lightly panko-breaded and the chips were sweet potato fries.
Desperate times call for desperate something, so I'm going on a juice fast this week. I'm eating raw today and tomorrow (fruit, veggies, salads with oil and vinegar, and steamed tofu only). Then three days of fruit and vegetable juices, followed by another two days of raw food.
In case you're curious, breakfast is the juice from a pear, an apple, small piece of ginger and spirulina. Evening juice is carrot, celery, beet, spinach and spirulana. Mid-day juice takes the discarded veggies from the evening juice, plus garlic and onion, boiled and then strained for broth.
Chris is worried I will be a wicked hose beast and doesn't even want to hang out with me this week! He's also really curious about how the fast will affect my pooping. I'll let you know it all goes...ahem...at the end of the week.
Desperate times call for desperate something, so I'm going on a juice fast this week. I'm eating raw today and tomorrow (fruit, veggies, salads with oil and vinegar, and steamed tofu only). Then three days of fruit and vegetable juices, followed by another two days of raw food.
In case you're curious, breakfast is the juice from a pear, an apple, small piece of ginger and spirulina. Evening juice is carrot, celery, beet, spinach and spirulana. Mid-day juice takes the discarded veggies from the evening juice, plus garlic and onion, boiled and then strained for broth.
Chris is worried I will be a wicked hose beast and doesn't even want to hang out with me this week! He's also really curious about how the fast will affect my pooping. I'll let you know it all goes...ahem...at the end of the week.
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Monday, April 18, 2011
Check it Out!
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so I had a hard boiled egg and veggie sausage for breakfast, then an orange, then a salad for lunch and a snack of cottage cheese and cherry tomatoes.
For dinner, I decided to try Tofu Shiratake noodles for the second time. My friend Erika recommended them to me as a noodle alternative. 20 calories per serving and only 1 net carb! So I had spaghetti for dinner, folks! And a bit of sauteed kale.
Check out Tofu Shirataki here.
For dinner, I decided to try Tofu Shiratake noodles for the second time. My friend Erika recommended them to me as a noodle alternative. 20 calories per serving and only 1 net carb! So I had spaghetti for dinner, folks! And a bit of sauteed kale.
Check out Tofu Shirataki here.
Sunday, April 17, 2011
I Am So Smart!
Breakfast was a bit of a cheat today. I ate most of a Fiat omelet at Beaterville (eggs, spinach, sun-dried tomatoes and feta), and two slices of sourdough toast with atomic red sauce (my nickname for their house-made jam which is sweetened with fruit pectin). Buuuuuut....I also had an Arnold Palmer, which is iced tea and lemonade with a shot of vodka. Too bad the lemonade is the worst thing in that mix.
No lunch for Dawnie.
I was in a Taco Bell-desiring shame spiral after work and thought about rolling up in the drive through. But I thought about this blog and I thought about my half-way point weigh-in on Tuesday.
When I got home, I came up with something I'm calling Dawn's Messy Brussels Bowl. Cous cous, black beans, Brussels sprouts, avocado, and salsa. The only thing I would've added was sour cream but the sour cream I have is past it's prime and was unceremoniously tossed. It was de-lish!
No lunch for Dawnie.
I was in a Taco Bell-desiring shame spiral after work and thought about rolling up in the drive through. But I thought about this blog and I thought about my half-way point weigh-in on Tuesday.
When I got home, I came up with something I'm calling Dawn's Messy Brussels Bowl. Cous cous, black beans, Brussels sprouts, avocado, and salsa. The only thing I would've added was sour cream but the sour cream I have is past it's prime and was unceremoniously tossed. It was de-lish!
Friday/Saturday
This blog is kind of a chore on the weekends. I hope I can remember what I ate over the last two days...
Friday was a hard-boiled egg and veggie sausage for breakfast and a Subway tuna salad for lunch. I was lazy as hell Friday evening and had a mess of snacks for dinner. Almonds, string cheese, yogurt and blueberries.
Saturday was a hard-boiled egg and string cheese before heading to get a massage. I then took myself out to lunch and had a tempeh Reuben with air-baked sweet potato "no-fries" and a diet Dixie Mattress, which was a cocktail consisting of Maker's and diet local organic ginger ale. Tasty! I then picked up an Endangered Species chocolate bar and had a couple of pieces of that. It had raspberries in it.
I made a really great salad for Chris and myself. A heart of Romaine, kale, spinach, a bit of green cabbage, cherry tomatoes, cucumber, sugar snap peas and hazelnuts. We had Newman's Lite Ginger Sesame dressing and about a cup of shrimp salad on top. The shrimp salad had rice wine vinegar, a dash of sesame oil, chives, English cucumber and sesame seeds. Deeeee-lish. Chris had to have a second helping cause it was so awesome.
We then went to Bula Kava House, a kava bar on Division and SE 31st for a few coconut shells full of kava water. Which was basically just like drinking a few cups of the dirtiest, most-forest-floor-tasting tea you could find. I really doubt there was any nutritional value in it...I hope.
Friday was a hard-boiled egg and veggie sausage for breakfast and a Subway tuna salad for lunch. I was lazy as hell Friday evening and had a mess of snacks for dinner. Almonds, string cheese, yogurt and blueberries.
Saturday was a hard-boiled egg and string cheese before heading to get a massage. I then took myself out to lunch and had a tempeh Reuben with air-baked sweet potato "no-fries" and a diet Dixie Mattress, which was a cocktail consisting of Maker's and diet local organic ginger ale. Tasty! I then picked up an Endangered Species chocolate bar and had a couple of pieces of that. It had raspberries in it.
I made a really great salad for Chris and myself. A heart of Romaine, kale, spinach, a bit of green cabbage, cherry tomatoes, cucumber, sugar snap peas and hazelnuts. We had Newman's Lite Ginger Sesame dressing and about a cup of shrimp salad on top. The shrimp salad had rice wine vinegar, a dash of sesame oil, chives, English cucumber and sesame seeds. Deeeee-lish. Chris had to have a second helping cause it was so awesome.
We then went to Bula Kava House, a kava bar on Division and SE 31st for a few coconut shells full of kava water. Which was basically just like drinking a few cups of the dirtiest, most-forest-floor-tasting tea you could find. I really doubt there was any nutritional value in it...I hope.
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Wednesday April 13
Last slice of quiche was consumed for breakfast, finally. I'm moving on to hard boiled eggs and sausage starting tomorrow.
I had a mid-morning snack of cottage cheese and cherry tomatoes. It made my salad very sad because there were no more tomatoes for it!
So yeah, lunch was my typical salad.
I had an afternoon snack of a huge orange and a Dove dark chocolate piece.
Dinner was a stir fry of cabbage, red bell pepper, kale and tofu. That clump on the side is 1/4 cup of cous cous, people. Which contains about 28g of carbs, but a decent amount of fiber and protein, if you can believe it...
I had a mid-morning snack of cottage cheese and cherry tomatoes. It made my salad very sad because there were no more tomatoes for it!
So yeah, lunch was my typical salad.
I had an afternoon snack of a huge orange and a Dove dark chocolate piece.
Dinner was a stir fry of cabbage, red bell pepper, kale and tofu. That clump on the side is 1/4 cup of cous cous, people. Which contains about 28g of carbs, but a decent amount of fiber and protein, if you can believe it...
Monday, April 11, 2011
Monday, Healthy Monday
I'm almost done with my quiche. I had my second to last piece today, along with a cup of sugar free vanilla latte (instant).
Lunch was the usual salad with a couple spoonfuls of cottage cheese and avocado.
Dinner was my attempt to recreate the fried tofu from The Night Light. I lightly breaded a couple of wedges of tofu in panko flakes and fried them in a bit of oil in the wok. Then I crisped up some kale and whipped up some spicy green beans. The only thing I wasn't sure of was the sauce. I didn't really know what to do, so I blended some red chili paste and horseradish.
Lunch was the usual salad with a couple spoonfuls of cottage cheese and avocado.
Dinner was my attempt to recreate the fried tofu from The Night Light. I lightly breaded a couple of wedges of tofu in panko flakes and fried them in a bit of oil in the wok. Then I crisped up some kale and whipped up some spicy green beans. The only thing I wasn't sure of was the sauce. I didn't really know what to do, so I blended some red chili paste and horseradish.
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Sunday April 10
Started the day at 11 with my black bean burger, then snacked at work on cherry tomatoes, tamari almonds and a small cheese wedge.
Dinner was a Sweet Tomatoes salad of my own design, which included such toppings as peas, a few beets (I know they are high in natural sugars), garbanzo beans, cherry tomatoes, red cabbage, julienned zucchini, and a lemon garlic dressing that was pretty tasty. Absent on the salad were cheese and hard boiled egg. Those used to be staples until I realized that I didn't really miss them when I didn't have them.
I skipped the soup bar tonight cause nothing really spoke to me. I considered the sugar-free lemon jello, but figured, "why even bother?". Oh, and I turned down the free-cookie-lady as she came around to my table...twice! Way to practice constraint, Dawn!
Dinner was a Sweet Tomatoes salad of my own design, which included such toppings as peas, a few beets (I know they are high in natural sugars), garbanzo beans, cherry tomatoes, red cabbage, julienned zucchini, and a lemon garlic dressing that was pretty tasty. Absent on the salad were cheese and hard boiled egg. Those used to be staples until I realized that I didn't really miss them when I didn't have them.
I skipped the soup bar tonight cause nothing really spoke to me. I considered the sugar-free lemon jello, but figured, "why even bother?". Oh, and I turned down the free-cookie-lady as she came around to my table...twice! Way to practice constraint, Dawn!
Still Off the Wagon...
Okay, so I had every intention, after Friday's complete lack of attention to the diet, to climb back on the wagon. But it didn't quite work out that way on Saturday. I only had time to grab a string cheese for breakfast before going to the grocery store.
When I got back, I had my treat sandwich (black bean burger). We then went to a Thai restaurant for Shawn's birthday. I ordered eggplant and broccoli (good) and coconut tempura zucchini (bad). Don't forget the Thai iced tea (bad) and Thai coffee with Kahlua (bad). Oh, and then we went to Ground Kontrol where I consumed 3 Coors Light (bad).
When I got back, I had my treat sandwich (black bean burger). We then went to a Thai restaurant for Shawn's birthday. I ordered eggplant and broccoli (good) and coconut tempura zucchini (bad). Don't forget the Thai iced tea (bad) and Thai coffee with Kahlua (bad). Oh, and then we went to Ground Kontrol where I consumed 3 Coors Light (bad).
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Friday April 8
Yay! The day finally arrived for our chocolate decadence tour!
I had a bran muffin and a sugar free vanilla latte for breakfast and was so full from it that I didn't eat anything for lunch.
At the chocolate tour I had an ounce or so of drinking chocolate, the equivalent of 3 truffles and 6 small shards of different chocolates. I also tasted olive oils and balsamic vinegars.
Dinner was at Salvador Molly's. I had a wild Mahi Mahi fillet pan-seared with onions &sweet peppers, simmered in a weird spicy tomato sauce with garlic spinach and sweet corn croquettes. I also had 3 cheesy poofs, which are fritters of molten cheese, chipotle chile and mashed potato. Holy yum!
Also consumed whiskey and 2 mint mojitos.
I had a bran muffin and a sugar free vanilla latte for breakfast and was so full from it that I didn't eat anything for lunch.
At the chocolate tour I had an ounce or so of drinking chocolate, the equivalent of 3 truffles and 6 small shards of different chocolates. I also tasted olive oils and balsamic vinegars.
Dinner was at Salvador Molly's. I had a wild Mahi Mahi fillet pan-seared with onions &sweet peppers, simmered in a weird spicy tomato sauce with garlic spinach and sweet corn croquettes. I also had 3 cheesy poofs, which are fritters of molten cheese, chipotle chile and mashed potato. Holy yum!
Also consumed whiskey and 2 mint mojitos.
Thursday April 7
1/2 quiche breakfast
Salad
Leftover spicy broccoli for snack
4 poppy seed Breton crackers w/ Tbsp peanut butter
Fried spicy tofu w/ green beans at The Night Light
Whiskey
Salad
Leftover spicy broccoli for snack
4 poppy seed Breton crackers w/ Tbsp peanut butter
Fried spicy tofu w/ green beans at The Night Light
Whiskey
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Wednesday Was Perfect
Had 1/2 of my breakfast quiche and the usual salad with 1/4 cup garbanzo beans, 1/2 an avocado and a few spoonfuls of cottage cheese.
I was pretty hungry a couple of hours after the wee quiche, so I had a few spoonfuls of cottage cheese, some cherry tomatoes and some sugar snap peas.
Dinner was a grilled tuna steak with spicy mustard and a side of garlic spicy broccoli with cashews. Check it!
So today was a perfect day, diet-wise. Tomorrow will be just as perfect because all bets are off on Friday!
I was pretty hungry a couple of hours after the wee quiche, so I had a few spoonfuls of cottage cheese, some cherry tomatoes and some sugar snap peas.
Dinner was a grilled tuna steak with spicy mustard and a side of garlic spicy broccoli with cashews. Check it!
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Tuesday April 5
I know I said I was going to be good all week, but I had a chocolate banana smoothie with whey protein from Starbucks today. 270 calories with 18 whole grams of protein!
Chelsea also made me a couple of Morning Star Farms sausage patties for 160 calories and some sliced cucumber, which burns more calories chewing than it contains. Yay for negative calories!
I had a fist full of almonds and a string cheese for a snack (240 calories) and a Subway tuna salad for dinner (390 calories) for a daily total of 1050, which is a bit low for calories, but I made up for it in sheer carbs! I had 54g carbs before dinner, and I'm not sure how much it had. Hopefully not a ton in a salad that is protein and vegetables.
Chelsea also made me a couple of Morning Star Farms sausage patties for 160 calories and some sliced cucumber, which burns more calories chewing than it contains. Yay for negative calories!
I had a fist full of almonds and a string cheese for a snack (240 calories) and a Subway tuna salad for dinner (390 calories) for a daily total of 1050, which is a bit low for calories, but I made up for it in sheer carbs! I had 54g carbs before dinner, and I'm not sure how much it had. Hopefully not a ton in a salad that is protein and vegetables.
Monday, April 4, 2011
Menu Monday
Today is Menu Monday and while I won't bore you with too many ingredients, I am pretty excited about dinner.
Breakfast was 1/2 a slice of quiche and a 12oz sugar free vanilla latte and lunch was the usual salad with cottage cheese and garbanzo beans.
Dinner was a wild tuna steak with stir fried veggies (a few left over Brussels sprouts, red bell pepper, onion and zucchini squash):
I stir fried the veggies first with just a bit of olive oil, garlic and red chili paste:
I then set the veggies aside and fried up chunks of the tuna steak with a tablespoon of soy sauce, a dash of sesame oil and a sprinkling of sesame seeds:
And voila, delicious dinner with a bunch of cilantro on the side and Hansen's diet black cherry soda (the bendy straw makes the dinner more jaunty):
I would make love to this meal if I could, but I'm sure conservative Christians everywhere would have something to say about it.
Breakfast was 1/2 a slice of quiche and a 12oz sugar free vanilla latte and lunch was the usual salad with cottage cheese and garbanzo beans.
Dinner was a wild tuna steak with stir fried veggies (a few left over Brussels sprouts, red bell pepper, onion and zucchini squash):
I stir fried the veggies first with just a bit of olive oil, garlic and red chili paste:
I then set the veggies aside and fried up chunks of the tuna steak with a tablespoon of soy sauce, a dash of sesame oil and a sprinkling of sesame seeds:
And voila, delicious dinner with a bunch of cilantro on the side and Hansen's diet black cherry soda (the bendy straw makes the dinner more jaunty):
I would make love to this meal if I could, but I'm sure conservative Christians everywhere would have something to say about it.
Sunday, April 3, 2011
April 3
This weekend was really weird for food. I was a major hermit crab and barely left the house. I definitely didn't want to cook, so I heated up some quiche for breakfast and then had snacks the rest of the day. String cheese, apples and peanut butter, marinated tofu bricks, almonds.
I did have one good dinner that Chris made of stuffed salmon and spicy green beans.
Back to the quiche/salad/salad routine of the week tomorrow. I've got to be extra good this week because Friday we are taking a Chocolate Decadence Portland Walking Tour and having dinner at Salvador Molly's.
I did have one good dinner that Chris made of stuffed salmon and spicy green beans.
Back to the quiche/salad/salad routine of the week tomorrow. I've got to be extra good this week because Friday we are taking a Chocolate Decadence Portland Walking Tour and having dinner at Salvador Molly's.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
So Full
Breakfast was my spinach/asparagus fritatta, lunch was my boring salad with avocado, cottage cheese and garbanzo beans, and dinner was a late visit to Yummy Mongolian BBQ. No more than 400 calories, even with 1/2 cup of spinach soba noodles.
So tired...so full...zzzzzzz
So tired...so full...zzzzzzz
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Must Remain Vigilant!
Breakfast was a sugar free vanilla latte, thanks to my laxity in wrapping up a slice of quiche to go.
Lunch was better, but still store-bought; a tuna salad from Subway. I then treated myself to a salted caramel. I feel the 8g carbs were worth it.
Dinner was tofu and asparagus with some Yumm! Sauce. Have you heard of Yumm! sauce? Oh my word...
A little goes a long way and 1 Tbsp has 1g carbs.
Lunch was better, but still store-bought; a tuna salad from Subway. I then treated myself to a salted caramel. I feel the 8g carbs were worth it.
Dinner was tofu and asparagus with some Yumm! Sauce. Have you heard of Yumm! sauce? Oh my word...
A little goes a long way and 1 Tbsp has 1g carbs.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
I Say Fritatta
This'll be my breakfast for the next 6 work days. Baked omelet/fritatta thingie consisting of 6 eggs, 8oz crumbled tofu, various cheeses, spinach and asparagus. Top with fresh salsa and you're jammin.
Lunch today was the usual boring salad plus garbanzo beans, avocado and cottage cheese, but dinner was AMAZING!
Two cold water lobster tails, broiled with garlic butter, plus "fried" Brussels sprouts and cauliflower mash. Pinkies were out!
Monday, March 28, 2011
Boring!
Boring diet day. Bran muffin for breakfast and two nearly identical salads for lunch and dinner. The only difference is the lunch salad had 1/2 cup of cottage cheese on it.
1 Romain heart, some kale, some spinach, 1/2 an avocado, grape tomatoes, 1/2 a tablespoon of pine nuts and 1/4 cup of chick peas, plus Newman's Own Lite Balsamic dressing.
1 small apple with 2 tablespoons of peanut butter for an after-dinner snack.
What I really wanted was natcharoni and cheese. It's something I made up in my head consisting of nachos and macaroni and cheese.
1 Romain heart, some kale, some spinach, 1/2 an avocado, grape tomatoes, 1/2 a tablespoon of pine nuts and 1/4 cup of chick peas, plus Newman's Own Lite Balsamic dressing.
1 small apple with 2 tablespoons of peanut butter for an after-dinner snack.
What I really wanted was natcharoni and cheese. It's something I made up in my head consisting of nachos and macaroni and cheese.
Sunday, March 27, 2011
A Reasonable Facsimile
In an effort to avoid Taco Bell on Sundays (my weak of the week), I put together a spicy black bean burger inspired by the Spicy Anasazi burger at Burgerville (another one of my favorite treats). It doesn't look like much, thanks to the weird multi-grain "sandwich thins" bread. But the spicy burger + pepper jack cheese + chipotle mayonnaise = a powerful punch in the flavor face. 310 calories; 28g carbs
I pre-prepped most of a salad for dinner, and am spending the rest of my time before work baking those bran muffins I promised. I'll let you know how they turn out.
Happy Sunday!
Saturday, March 26, 2011
The Most Important Meal of the Day
Saturday morning breakfast of a 2-egg + 2-egg-white omelet stuffed with sauteed kale, red pepper flakes, and an ounce of goat cheese. Sided with 4 sliced strawberries marinated in balsamic vinegar. If the Self Nutrition Data website is to be believed, this little breakfast only cost me 337 calories. Can you imagine if this were a restaurant omelet with hash browns, bacon and coffee?
Time to walk to the dog park and try to work up an appetite for lunch...
Friday, March 25, 2011
Mmm...braaaaans...
Pazzo Bakery downtown has the best bran muffins evar. Even if they do have ni-nis (raisins) in them. I could eat just this bran muffin and then dinner and be solid. But Chris is the blood sugar police, I guess and FORCED me to eat lunch today, which was a Schlubway salad with tuna salad on top. I looked up every ingredient on Spark People (thanks Cristi!) and it comes to 390 calories.
I did have an unnecessary iced grande sugar-free vanilla latte this afternoon because Chris got stuck on a call at the last minute and I had to do something to kill time before we zipped to the shelter to see Alice, my hopefully-future dog. Lemme see what that latte came to...Only 120 calories, but milk sugar (lactose) and protein, so it had 18g of carbs (yikes) but 12g protein (win).
I ended the evening at Yummy Mongolian BBQ with Chris. I did consume almost a cup of spinach soba noodles, but a mass amount of shrimp and veggies like cabbage, spinach, mushrooms, red bell peppers, broccoli and onions. Yummy, indeed! Even with the noodles, the calories only came to about 325 calories, thanks to shrimp being low in everything but protein.
Soooo...The bran muffin was maybe the worst thing I consumed based on carbs alone, but I found this amazing-looking bran muffin recipe that I am going to try this weekend. Only 7g carbs!
The non-low-carb bran muffin prolly cost me about 325 calories and 40-50 carbs if my lazy internet search is to be believed. Pazzo doesn't publish their nutrition information, so I did my best to compare out there. All told, my calorie count today was approximately 1160 calories and approximately 40,681 carbs.
I did have an unnecessary iced grande sugar-free vanilla latte this afternoon because Chris got stuck on a call at the last minute and I had to do something to kill time before we zipped to the shelter to see Alice, my hopefully-future dog. Lemme see what that latte came to...Only 120 calories, but milk sugar (lactose) and protein, so it had 18g of carbs (yikes) but 12g protein (win).
I ended the evening at Yummy Mongolian BBQ with Chris. I did consume almost a cup of spinach soba noodles, but a mass amount of shrimp and veggies like cabbage, spinach, mushrooms, red bell peppers, broccoli and onions. Yummy, indeed! Even with the noodles, the calories only came to about 325 calories, thanks to shrimp being low in everything but protein.
Soooo...The bran muffin was maybe the worst thing I consumed based on carbs alone, but I found this amazing-looking bran muffin recipe that I am going to try this weekend. Only 7g carbs!
The non-low-carb bran muffin prolly cost me about 325 calories and 40-50 carbs if my lazy internet search is to be believed. Pazzo doesn't publish their nutrition information, so I did my best to compare out there. All told, my calorie count today was approximately 1160 calories and approximately 40,681 carbs.
Thursday, March 24, 2011
A Little Story to Set the Tone...
It was a rainy Portland Sunday night a couple of weeks ago when I decided that I wanted pizza for dinner. I knew this was a cardinal sin, but my will is incredibly weak on Sundays. I pulled up to Pizza Hut on North Lombard, turned off the ignition, dropped the keys in my purse and hopped out of the car and locked it...with my purse and keys still sitting in the passenger seat.
Fuck.
It took me three seconds to decide against calling Chris even though he has AAA. Instead, I went inside the Pizza Hut and asked for the yellow pages. My wallet and insurance card were in the car as well, and I do not have my insurance company's number programmed into my phone. (Miracle of miracles, my phone was in my coat pocket.) Admitting I was locked outside my car was no big deal. Who cares? But there was no way I was letting Chris find out I was parked outside a friggin Pizza Hut! Are you crazy?
While I was on hold with the insurance company, I wandered over to the fire station to see if maybe they had a lock jimmy. The guys there were friendly but said they couldn't pop my lock unless there was an emergency. (They asked if the car was running, if there was a child inside and if it was on fire. Ha.)
What they did do is offer to let me wait inside the station rather than stand around in the rain or in the Pizza Hut.
I got a hold of the insurance company and they gave me the name of a locksmith that I called to come out to my car.
While I was waiting, one of the firemen made me a bowl of Baskin & Robbins chocolate chip ice cream with chocolate sauce on top. I would have felt rude for turning that down! One of the other guys made fun of me for wanting to eat at Pizza Hut in the first place. "Wouldn't you rather have Papa Murphy's instead?" He was totally right.
Locksmith dude finally got there (he told me 20 minutes, it took 50). He spent 14 seconds popping my lock and another 3 minutes writing up a receipt for 165 goddamn dollars. He said the price depends on the vehicle and, in my case, day and time (Guess he thinks popping locks on a Sunday night is a pain in the ass). I have a feeling he jacked up the price because I said "yes" when he asked me if I had insurance. State Farm is going to reimburse me, but sweet holy Moses, $165? That would've been one expensive pizza...
After the check book rape was over, I hopped in my car and put Pizza Hut in the rear view mirror. This was Diet Karma. It served me right to shell out $165 on a rainy Portland Sunday night as punishment for my weakness. It was a testament to the severity of my lack of willpower.
I hope this blog will help keep me honest in my goal to eat healthfully, and if nothing else, I won't be embarrassed to call Chris when I lock myself out of my car in front of the All You Can Eat 100% Healthy Diet-Safe Salad Bar and Iced Tea Stand.
Fuck.
It took me three seconds to decide against calling Chris even though he has AAA. Instead, I went inside the Pizza Hut and asked for the yellow pages. My wallet and insurance card were in the car as well, and I do not have my insurance company's number programmed into my phone. (Miracle of miracles, my phone was in my coat pocket.) Admitting I was locked outside my car was no big deal. Who cares? But there was no way I was letting Chris find out I was parked outside a friggin Pizza Hut! Are you crazy?
While I was on hold with the insurance company, I wandered over to the fire station to see if maybe they had a lock jimmy. The guys there were friendly but said they couldn't pop my lock unless there was an emergency. (They asked if the car was running, if there was a child inside and if it was on fire. Ha.)
What they did do is offer to let me wait inside the station rather than stand around in the rain or in the Pizza Hut.
I got a hold of the insurance company and they gave me the name of a locksmith that I called to come out to my car.
While I was waiting, one of the firemen made me a bowl of Baskin & Robbins chocolate chip ice cream with chocolate sauce on top. I would have felt rude for turning that down! One of the other guys made fun of me for wanting to eat at Pizza Hut in the first place. "Wouldn't you rather have Papa Murphy's instead?" He was totally right.
Locksmith dude finally got there (he told me 20 minutes, it took 50). He spent 14 seconds popping my lock and another 3 minutes writing up a receipt for 165 goddamn dollars. He said the price depends on the vehicle and, in my case, day and time (Guess he thinks popping locks on a Sunday night is a pain in the ass). I have a feeling he jacked up the price because I said "yes" when he asked me if I had insurance. State Farm is going to reimburse me, but sweet holy Moses, $165? That would've been one expensive pizza...
After the check book rape was over, I hopped in my car and put Pizza Hut in the rear view mirror. This was Diet Karma. It served me right to shell out $165 on a rainy Portland Sunday night as punishment for my weakness. It was a testament to the severity of my lack of willpower.
I hope this blog will help keep me honest in my goal to eat healthfully, and if nothing else, I won't be embarrassed to call Chris when I lock myself out of my car in front of the All You Can Eat 100% Healthy Diet-Safe Salad Bar and Iced Tea Stand.
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