An Unusual Wake Up Call

Hey!! I'm finally back, I missed my blog, and all my bloggie buddies!

Wow, I have been slacking here lately! Just been super busy per usual, things will slow down soon I'm sure. Anyway, most of my food was not all that blog-worthy as I've been in such a hurry these days, nothing spectacular, so I'll just hit the highlights.

This morning I was awakened to the alarm going off at 5:30 am. No, not the alarm clock... the burglar alarm. We have a friend staying with us for a while, and he came in at 5:30 this morning and didn't know that coming in through the garage also triggers the alarm. So I RAN downstairs and deactivated it, but it was too late, our alarm company had to call me to make sure everything was okay, and I told them it was a false alarm.

But my abrupt wake up call wasn't such a bad thing though, it got my tail out of bed and awake in a hurry, just in time to take the puppy on a nice long walk before the sun came up. So that was actually kind of nice!


After my walk, I had a super delicious parfait: Oikos, four big strawberries and a crumbled up macaroon on top. This has become one of my favorite breakfasts/snacks ever! I just wish blueberry season wasn't over :(

Some highlights from last week:

I got to meet Mandy from Mmmm... Meals, Mommyhood, Makeup & More! who, by the way is totally sweet and adorable in person! :) We met up for coffee on Thursday, and she is going to introduce me to Zumba tomorrow, and then we're meeting up for dinner Thursday. So I'm super excited about that! I've been wanting to try Zumba for a while, but have been a little intimidated by the whole thing, so it's really nice to have someone to go with! :)

My mom and I went to one of my favorite places on Friday, Romano's Macaroni Grill! The food photos didn't turn out too great since I was taking sneaky shots with my iPhone, but I did get a shot of my table doodling. I always have to draw on the table, at Romano's, I can't help it, it's the artist in me :)


We split the warm spinach and goat cheese salad and the Mozarella ala Caprese, it was so good and perfect portions. Plus it didn't leave us feeling too full so we were able to sneak this in afterwards:


Yes, we found happiness within. In the form of maple ice cream with pecan and white chocolate chip mixins. We just got the small and had them split it into the little baby cups, once again, perfect portion!

In other sinful and indulgent treat news: I finally gave in.


And I am not ashamed. I had a pumpkin spice latte from Starbucks. I couldn't take it anymore! I had been seeing them on everyone's blogs for a week or so, looking all delicious and what not. So I had to have one. But I ordered it with nonfat milk and asked them to only put half the syrup. I don't know why I had never thought of that before, but half was just perfect! I am SO not a big sugar person, but here lately my sweet tooth has been getting the best of me. I've got to get it in check. But anyway, the latte was delicious, and I was glad I had it. Flavored, sweetened coffee is something I do maybe a handful of times a year, so that was well worth it.

I am off to try and get some sleep. My sleep has not been that great with the hubby gone. I have been taking in tons of late night tv which is usually food network, (my fave) Has anyone seen that show called "The Best Thing I Ever Ate" ? They ask various chefs and foodies what the best thing they ever ate was. The only thing that narrows it down is they have a theme, like desserts, or dishes involving bacon, etc. I've only caught it a couple of times, but I just keep thinking: how do these major foodies decide what the best thing they ever ate was? I'm pretty sure I haven't had near the delicious variety of food these people have and I still don't think I can effectively answer that question!

What's the BEST thing you ever ate in the following three categories:

1) Dessert
2) Home Cooked Meal
3) Restaurant Meal

Here are mine (I think...)

1) ghiradelli cheesecake from cheesecake factory (I'm such an ice cream junkie anything from marble slab is a close second though!)
2) nana's enchiladas
3) melting pot fondue!

first on the agenda tomorrow, catch up on every one else's blogs! I have missed those too! See you soon!