Now I am kinda back to normal. The weekend has been intense! Working on Friday then jumping in the car and driving 8 h, the funeral on Saturday and then driving back 8 h on Sunday. On Monday I had the Kick-off Event for the new program rotation and commencing yesterday things slowly feel normal again.
I still feel worn out physically and mentally and as a nice present on top I have a bronchitis again – I totally blame the air con in the car! – but I feel better and I think if I put in a little effort I can lower my stress levels sustainably over the next weeks. Thank you for your support over the last weeks, your lovely comments, e-mails and text messages. It means a lot to me to have people backing me up out there! I’ll reply to you all one of these days!
Breakfast
I got up way too early after a night full of work-related dreams. Of course I dreamt up problems over problems. I hate it when my subconsciousness tortures me like this! I am still on the cliff bar for breakfast bandwagon though I want to change this soon. It’s no good for me to start the day like this. I favor homemade breakfast but I didn’t want to add any more unnecessary pressure to myself so I just ripped off a package and stuffed my face with blueberry crisp.
Lunch
In the morning I finally went to see the optometrist (another 30 before 30 thing finally checked 😉 ) and tada my eyes are well besides a little hyperopia of the left eye. He also explained that this might be the reason that I am often so easily tired and stresses when I have to read a lot or drive long distances. Sounds familiar! After my appointment I had a coffee with my mum and then I went to work. On my way I grabbed some fruits and Thai Curry for lunch. Unfortunately I realized that about 30% of this curry was mushrooms that I do adore but make my guts feel like Armageddon! So my curry was slightly smaller than expected after I picked them all out!
Snack
In the afternoon I had a workshop with the first of 8 groups I guide this year. It’s clearly one of my favorite groups and it was a really open, communicative and friendly 3 hours. After the workshop I had a short meeting where I nibbled on some carrots and then I called it a day!
I was surprised how difficult it was to leave the office after only 5 h. I felt like a truanting pupil! Nevertheless I told me very firmly that after such a long time of stress and long hours I deserved this and that I don’t have to plan my days with 10+ hours of work and off I went….. straight to the groceries to buy some stuff for dinner. When I came home I was very hungry and luckily I found a Milka Egg in the pantry 🙂 Hazelnut cream, my favorite!
Dinner
At home I made dinner and watched The ugly truth – very cliché but it made me laugh nonetheless. We had one of our favorites: Sweet potato fries with spicy beef sauce and homemade guac. Luckily I have some leftovers for lunch today 😀 We watched a soccer match – let’s not talk about it – and a little more TV and at some point I crashed on the couch. Business as usual!
So now I wish you all a very happy WIAW! Thanks to lovely Jenn for hosting again!
Have a great Wednesday, friends!
I love you opened with the Joker. Also sweet potato fries for the win. Happy WIAW!
Thank you. Nice compliment from the lady with the best intros ever!
Happy WIAW! Thanks for sharing your eats – I love seeing what everyone’s eating. And i LOVE sweet potato fries. I also don’t know what a milka egg is but that looks incredible and i now want one.
It’s a chocolate egg with a cream filling and it comes with a little spoon to spoon out the cream. It’s delicious and somehow disgusting considering it 😛
Milka spoon eggs! It’s been ages since I had them – actually the first year they appeared on shelves and never again after that because my mum wouldn’t buy them and I forgot about them.
Can I come over for dinner and just sub in veggie minced meat for the beef because hello does that look delicious.
On another note I’m sorry for my late mail reply and hope the weekend went okay – for what was happening in anyway. Get better soon!
How could you forget about them??? It’s our Easter staple!
Thanks for your email. Very much appreciated and I reply within the next days! Have a lovely day Miss P. <3
Easy to answer: Lindor eggs exist. Honestly, once you’ve tried them you forget about other eggs even existing.
I hope life’s going well for you <3.
I must confess Lindor isn’t my favorite. It’s the reason why I always thought I didn’t like Lindt chocolate!
Lalalalaaa … can’t hear you. But okay, their dark chocolates are even better than Lindor. I hope you’ve tried the Chili bar or the 99 % one before … mmmh, yes.
😀 😀 😀 I won’t be responsible for you having a nervous breakdown so let me tell you that I totally love the dark chocolate marzipan easter eggs, I adore the Nougat and I can go crazy on the brittle filled eggs.
How considerate of you to care 😉 and now I’m obviously relieved.
Wow those sweet potato fries are cut so uniform, you should be a professional! Also any type of candy/chocolate you can eat with a spoon sounds amazing in my book.
Haha you should tell my husband. He always complains that my fried are so uneven that whilst some are already burnt some are still not done enough 😀
That dinner looks amazing! I can tell the guac was the icing on the cake – love guac with my beef!
Beef and Guac is a super combo. My favorite at the moment 🙂
do you have a recipe for this spicy beef sauce :)??
Yes, basically this one https://1000lovelythings.wordpress.com/2014/07/11/grain-free-hash-brown-lasagne/ but I used tomato paste instead of the canned tomato and added tandoori masala for some spicy flavor.