Patron sundial
Oh what a gloriously delightful day it is in sunny South Carolina today! I escaped my desk for a quick bit to enjoy my lunch while soaking up some Vitamin D. (Did you know you can get all the Vitamin D your body needs for a day with 15 minutes of sunblock-free sun exposure? Get outside!)
My baby Patron bottle not only doubles as a salad dressing carrier but also as a sundial. Recycling at its finest.
Sunshine salad
My salad was bright and sunny as well, with yellow peppers, yellow dressing (mustard + olive oil + brown sugar), chickpeas, nuts, avocado, etc. Love.
My other bento layers included:
Fruit and yogurt
Popcorn!
Random on the popcorn, I know. It was an impulse buy at TJMaxx and it is GOOD. Just popcorn, oil and salt. I can’t remember the brand. Somehow popcorn always tastes better to me when it’s not freshly popped. Whaaa? I know.
It’s pretty toasty out here in the midday sun, but this morning it was a brisk-ish 70 degrees so I sported my new boots in a sad attempt to will fall into existence.
TJMaxx - $30
I’m off to finish upwork and then I have to head straight to Charlotte for the Blues, Brews and BBQ Festival. I’m doing a freelance piece for Uptown Magazine. I warned them that I’m a vegetarian and they actually liked the uncomfortable (and likely hilarious) discord created by that angle. I have to spend the entire night up there watching the teams prepare the meat until the wee hours of the morning when judging will commence. Should be interesting…
[Some may see this as a conflict of interest. I do not. I see it as life. Not everyone I interact with will be a vegetarian. Ever. And I wouldn't want to live that way. I don't want to always be around people that are just like me. My family eats meat. Do I ostracize them? No. Stew ate meat when we first started dating. Did I care? No. I don't like when people give me hell for not eating meat, so I'm not going to give people hell for doing so if they please.]
And THEN… I am going straight from that to my two-year anniversary dinner with Stew. I promise I’ll shower off the pork residue first. Ew.
Haha I almost bought those same boots (or some very similar) but I ended up getting a pair at Old Navy instead. Those are so cute! I’m eating hot oatmeal again, also hoping to will fall into being…
I love your perspective on the festival, definitely not a conflict of interest. Sounds fun!
Haha – love the patron sundial:) It really is a tiny bottle! Try and have fun at the festival. I feel the same way as you do about eating meat – I don’t pick on people for eating meat and I expect the same respect in return:)
ew ew ew ew pork residue (DON’T WASH IT OFF)
Love those boots! Also, what are you putting on your greek yogurt? It looks like cinnamon, is that right?
yep! cinnamony
Oooooh! Love your boots
Such a great perspective on doing the freelance piece. Sounds like it will be an interesting piece.
Happy anniversary. Clan has a b’day on Sunday. What a big weekend!!
Definitely applaud the live and let live attitude — I don’t like being judged, so I reserve my own judgments.
With that said, watching meat get butchered would probably be beyond the ken of what I could handle
But I’ll be curious to see how the experience greets you.
And you know I’ll all over the avo and chickpeas, lady