Today was my first day holding down the fort while Andre went off to play grown-up.
I am so proud of my mister and excited for his first day, but I missed my sweetheart.
The day started off EARLY waking first at 7, falling back asleep, and getting up at 8.
I was able to wish him farewell and give him a smooch, but then what to do?! Was I going to manage with the whole apartment to myself for a whole day????!?!?!
Well I figured breakfast was a good place to start, so I made myself a treat (that andre would not be as excited about) to cheer myself up - ALMOND JOY OATMEAL!!!
I started out making some good old fashioned oats, then added a splash of milk, a little brown sugar, a little mound of sweetened shredded coconut, some crushed dry roasted almonds, and a cut up dark chocolate truffle!
It was pretty good. Next time I'd use less almonds and more chocolate though. I spied some almond m&ms in the pantry that may be part of my next attempt.
Then I thought I would be really productive and show him I can be good and not just sit on my tush and eat treats all day so I went down to the leasing office to take care of some scary business. We got a three day notice on our door last night (saying we were late on rent and we needed to pay within three days or leave). It was confusing though b/c we signed up for auto-pay when we signed our lease and I had more than enough money in my account, so why would this happen to us?!?! Also, the ratings for our complex/ office management are pretty horrible so even though I've never had a problem with them - I was scared to have to deal with them - hopefully they could at least appreciate that I'm going down there because I WANT to give them money, right? Well, apparently they changed websites - so it ended up being a pretty easy fix and I'm happy to report the people I dealt with in the office were nice and helpful and even waived the late fee since I had assumed it was auto-payed. Whew!
What came next was a slight digression into naughtiness (catching up on all my ABC teen dramas).... BUT in my defense I'd been waiting to watch my stories ALL WEEK!
I also managed to eat a somewhat balanced lunch (romaine with asian sesame dressing, pita chips, and roasted pine nut hummus). Seriously, this dressing we got recently found at costco increased my salad intake astronomically and I recommend to anyone and everyone. Right when I thought I'd found the perfect salad in the little artisan lettuces from costco, this dressing made me go back to romaine.
THEN I joined the 21st century and downloaded Firefox so hopefully I won't always accidentally close all my millions of tabs (I've been using chrome exclusively for the past few years). I am not really looking forward to having to look up my saved passwords for the first time I go to all my sites, but I think it'll be for the best.
When the internet went out for a few mins (as it loves to do just to spite me) I cleaned up a bit. Cleaning always makes me feel better though, so jokes on you sucka!
I also got VERY exciting news today about a special trip for a certain interview next week. I'm trying not to go into too many details or get my hopes up, but I want it REAL bad and am so excited to take this little interview trip even though I know I'm going to miss Andre like a crazy woman. Wish a wish for me and maybe I'll have some exciting new job/ new city news soon!
Finally on the docket for this evening is preparing a warm nice dinner for my sweetheart to come home to. Jambalaya with cajun andouille sausage and chicken! Ok so my time management skills were not at peak today and I was still working on it when he got home BUT that just meant I got a little help (wait, was this on purpose? he'll never know!)
