Posted on June 9, 2010 - by Ashley Jackson

Snakes and Spiders

Today’s Daily Special at FoodBuzz is a mandoline. I’ve often thought about buying a mandoline because I could make cool flat thin things with it, but I’d also probably slice my fingers off.

I’m pretty sure that 3/4 of my calories today came from M&Ms.

I feel like I slept well last night (haven’t checked the GoWear Fit today), but I was so tired when my alarm went off at 5:30AM that I shut it off and went back to bed. Bah. Need to stop doing that.

Breakfast was some Liberte and peanut butter M&Ms…

I started snacking on this big bowl of grapes before I took a picture…it was full when I started!

During lunch I took a walk. A shorter than normal walk. Because while I was walking by the marsh, I saw the biggest spider I’ve ever seen in the wild and not in a web. It was just walking across the path…I almost stepped on it! It squicked me out for the rest of the day. Also, I saw a snake that was folded up like an accordion and taking a nap in this hole!

Yes, I went back later with my camera in hopes that he would still be there…he was not.

Lunch was some leftover pasta from Monday’s dinner.

Here’s where things went bad…I knew I hadn’t brought enough to eat for the day, so I went to the vending machine and bought a giant bag of peanut M&Ms. But the machine gave me two bags.

I proceeded to eat them both. That was bad. It did keep me full for a very long time, though…

After work, I came home and decided to try out a run. I did my 3.2 mile route and started out with a walk, then manage to run about a mile before my left ankle started hurting badly enough that I felt it unwise to run through the pain. So I walked most of the rest of the way–did throw in some running on a downhill slope to see if that helped, and while my ankle didn’t hurt while I was running, it did hurt for a while after I stopped.

Also, I was attacked by mosquitoes while taking Heath out and now now my arm is swelling up. Awesome.

I actually wasn’t hungry when I got back from my walk, but I needed to take my medication so I had to eat something. I opted for a half cup of Peanut Butter Panda Puffs.

Gluten-free kid’s cereal…expensive but tasty.

Well, I’m going to crawl into bed and try to stay up for the finale of Top Chef Masters…I’m pulling for Susur, but I think Marcus has it in the bag…