At Least It Isn't Monday...

Oh Friday, I finally found canned pumpkin!!! I was so excited. I swung by Earth Fare on the way home because I figured SURELY they must have this because they are a natural and mostly organic food store. They did have it so I bought two cans. I also grabbed a box of No Pudge Brownie Mix (which is amazing!) and Blueberry Vitatops. I had to get things only found at that store.

Of course, I had to swing by Piggly Wiggly to get devil's food cake mix so I could finally make the Yum Yum Brownie Muffins with the recipe from Hungry Girl website (devil's food cake mix and canned pumpkin only).

I didn't have time to make them Friday night because I had to get ready and go to dinner for my friend's 80s themed birthday party down town at 8pm. There ended up being 12 of us and they didn't make a reservation in time for TacoSushi. Ugh. So the restaurant told us it was an hour wait. We ended up trying to go somewhere else. We didn't end up eating until after 10pm at IHOP!!! We should have just stayed and waited for an hour. But it is hard to control an 80s dressed crowd of 12. The night got better after we had food in our belly (and thankfully sobered up the others!). We danced, got free champagne, and left downtown at 2am when the bars closed. It kind of made up for how stressed I was for the first couple hours of the night! Hm...

Saturday I got up, worked out, and made the Yum Yum Brownie Muffins as the Carolina game on ESPN started at noon. It was a great game! We beat Georgia 17-6. It was amazing. Richie was working the 9-11 Kid Rock concert at FT Jackson that day so I took Timmy to my place and put the gamecock themed handkerchief on him for good luck (it worked!)

He was so excited after the game... It wore him out :)

Oh, and my friend finally booked out hotel for October in NYC! It is actually happening. Now I have to finally buy by plane ticket! I am super excited for October! I am not flying alone thankfully. There will be four of us going so it will be a nice chill group...

Excited for: The Office DVD, TacoSushi, and the Gamecocks!

I am super excited I finally have The Office Season 6 DVD in my clutches :). I bought it during my lunch break at Target as they have an extra special bonus disc only available at Target (and it came with $10 off coupon for The Office Bobblehead... love it). Not sure which one I will get as I want them all! I feel like Dwight would be a classic, though.

Tonight will be great. It is a friend's birthday and we are eating at the new restaurant, TacoSushi. Should be a fun night.

Tomorrow, South Carolina plays a home game vs. Georgia. I deeply dislike Georgia. As a college student, I hated noon games this early in the season as it is SUPER hot in September anytime during the day in Columbia. I can't wait to watch my Gamecocks win :) lol.

Current Gamecock Football Stats:
9.2.2010: W 41-13 vs Ole Miss


Go Cocks!!!!!!!!!!

Mojitos and Chocolate Cake

I am usually entitled to an hour lunch break even if we have long staff meetings so I will blog on my 'break', though I am not actually going to leave the office...


I love staff meetings. We usually get together once a month for a mostly productive meeting to discuss what is going on with the company and throw in ideas. The best part? Free food and cake (because someone always has birthday each month). For lunch we had food from Mojito's Tropical Cafe, new downtown restaurant. Their chicken wrap I had was amazing. 


We also had a choice of two cakes from Publix, a chocolate ganache supreme cake and a rasperry ganache cake. The chocolate won out. I (along with many other coworkers) got a second helping of chocolate cake and killed it. Below is an picture from the Publix website of the cake I had. Yum.

Amazing lunch :)


Unfortunately, this definitely will not help me lose 20 pounds. Now I am going to have to work out extra hard at the gym after work... boo. I've incorporated a jump rope into my work out plan which is a nice old school throw back and kind of mixes it up.

Years Later...

I haven't blogged in years. Back when I was really familiar with HTML and Photoshop and all that stuff. But I felt inspired and maybe it will help me keep up with things...
I believe starting last weds to this weds, it has been the slowest week at my 8am-5pm job. Yesterday had some pretty exciting events. My future nephew-in-law was born early in the morning AND The Office Season 6 came out. I don't know which is more exciting :). I am waiting to buy The Office because I want to get bonus stuff. On target I saw they had a bonus disc, but the DVD isn't out yet. I want it so bad. I absolutely <3 The Office.


Also,
I found this recipe on Hungrygirl.com for Yum Yum Brownie Muffins:

http://www.hungry-girl.com/week/weeklydetails.php?isid=614&idate=09-29-2005

I desperately wanted to make them because it only uses canned pumpkin and devil's food cake or a healthy and low fat muffin (only 180 calories!) but I can not for the life of me find canned pumpkin! Anywhere! I tried 3 Walmarts, BiLo, and Piggly Wiggly. I know it is seasonal, but there is a lot of stuff they sell now that isn't useful. It is really depressing because I had my heart set on these muffins now. I am hoping canned pumpkin comes back on the market soon, locally that is.


Right now, I can't stop eating the dang cookie cake I bought for my roomie's birthday. She had only eaten one slice but I asked her yesterday to eat it because I am a fat kid and I keep chucking pieces of it. It is not figure friendly. And it is a big cake because they apparently don't make smaller cookie cakes. Ugh. It is sooo good, too. 
I will continue to think of sweets at work all day.