One Of Those Weeks, New Car & Recent Eats

 

Last week was just one of those weeks. You know, one of those weeks where it feels like just about everything is going wrong for days on end?

When one of those weeks happen, you need a balanced attitude and positive mood for properly dealing with life and although those are my finer qualities 99.9% of the time, they were not present for me five out of the seven days last week.

Instead, I filtered in my PMS hormones and post-quick trip to Chicago feelings into everything that happened which DID NOT help me in the slightest.

By Wednesday though, I truly acknowledged it wasn’t my week and slowly started to recover from the constant everything is wrong feeling.

Wednesday afternoon, after having not the best of mornings, I was running a wedding webinar for work at a later time than my usual webinar time. This meant that my son had to take the bus home from school because I wouldn’t be available to pick him up.

I love these webinars by the way because I love talking wedding details!

Well, the one time this year that my son had to take the bus home, a car decides to crash into the power lines in front of the school causing a power outage and slight fire.

I found out about it by text from my son towards the end of my webinar. Imagine me on A LIVE WEBINAR talking to our guest expert speaker about weddings while my son is texting me to please pick him up, there’s no power in the school and the power lines outside are on fire.

Did I tell you it wasn’t my week?

Recent Eats:

As soon as my wedding webinar concluded, I did pick my son up from school since the buses were delayed by the chaos. The school really handled the situation super well and no one was hurt.

Since we were both hungry, we went immediately to Chopt for salads. I am still loving the spicy tahini dressing! It’s so good.

I should really make the tahini dressing at home but lately, I don’t feel like making ANYTHING at home.

It’s a rare occurrence that I find the time to work from Panera but I did get there one day for a change of scenery and ordered a salad.

Please note the apple on the side. I thought I would try liking apples again but I still don’t. After one bite, I knew apples were still off my radar.

This random slice of whole wheat vegetable pizza was eaten while sitting in my loaner car from my car dealership (because of course something was wrong with my car last week too) while hiding from my son and his friend.

That’s right, hiding from the kids. They still don’t even know that I had pizza but I was hungry, they were annoying me, and the only place I could hide was in the loaner car that I could barely figure out how to drive because everything has gone so hi-tech. It’s a miracle that I even got the loaner car into park. I am not even kidding.

Saturday really was a terrific day and a great lesson for remembering that even when you have some less than wonderful feeling days, the better days are always on the horizon.

After my long run in the morning, I met with my friend David who is also my accountant to do my taxes. I learned that I owe a lot less money than expected (!!!!) and then, while riding the I owe less money feeling, I made a deal on a new car that I got to drive home the same day!

The first place I drove in my new car (which is white by the way, my first ever white car) was to my parents’ house for dinner after leaving the car dealership in the evening.

We had Sicilian pizza from Piccolo which I requested since we haven’t had pizza from Piccolo in forever. It was a slight change for us from the usual grandma pizza.

My dad bought these chocolate chip cookies and then looked at me like I was insane as I ate the chocolate chips from the cookies and left a pile of crumbs. What? Doesn’t he know by now that I do weird things with food sometimes?

My son had a hockey game yesterday outside in the frigid weather but at least the game wasn’t too early in the morning with the whole time change thing.

I ran some errands and did basic food shopping to prepare for the blizzard that is coming tomorrow and we tried the new edible cookie dough from Stew Leonard’s too!

Stew Leonard’s sells the cookie dough in two sizes but I told my son to go with the small one since cookie dough is super rich when eaten with a spoon. You just can’t eat that much cookie dough before feeling sick. But we liked it!

Let’s not complain about the time change which hurts my early morning running or the fact that there is a blizzard approaching for tomorrow. I had enough complaining last week and I am ready for a new week in my new car…which is about to be covered in snow. 🙂

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Linking up with Meg’s Week in Review!

What color is your car? Do you always get the same color?

Is it supposed to snow where you live today/tomorrow?

Best thing you ate over the weekend?