Today is my birthday....joyous day

Today is my birthday, and a good day it has been. Got to do the snack shopping for our office, and I really enjoy doing that....get to fill a whole grocery cart with granola bars, cereal bars, nuts, chips, crackers, non-perishables for the most part. I try and buy healthy, organic snacks when I can, but I also do buy a fair bit of candy and of course, soda. But it's even fun buying the candy. I buy large bags of peanut m&m's, mini-snickers, assorted tootsie rolls, tootsie roll pops, dots, starbursts, assorted mini candy bars, and gum. My total with coupons and store discounts was $299.17. Lovely that. 17 is my favorite number. I saved $66.16 with coupons etc. Good job. The only little glitch was that I left the large box of coke sitting in front of the elevator door, holding it open, and the mailman had to walk up to the third floor. He didn't much fancy that, but it wasn't really that bad.

My day started out well, I woke up earlier, made a wonderful green juice with all kinds of different greens in it, almost forgot the celery....so had 2 quarts of that, and for my evening lemon fruit juice, I juiced some blueberries and nectarines, and added that (strained several times) to a mixture of lime, lemon and orange juice along with the maple syrup and raw honey.

I made a birthday dinner for my family, marinating chunks of chicken breast in lime juice, and Annie's (formerly Consorzio's) Teriyaki Sauce, and put them on skewers with onions, mini bell peppers, and tomatoes...all coated in olive oil with pepper added.

Then I heated the oven to 500 degrees, propped the skewers over my lasagne pan, and roasted them for 10 minutes. They turned out wonderfully, but I should have put some foil in the bottom of the pan....it's quite a mess. I also cooked up some small yukon gold potatoes, cut them up, and while still warm added some Seeds of Change Greek Feta dressing... for dessert I bought a yummy looking fruit tart from WF...and that is dinner. I of course, am not having any, but I do enjoy everyone else enjoying my birthday dinner.

Now, I am off to take a walk, then we will come back and have dessert with candles even, I am 53 today, was happy when a co-worker thought I was in my late 40's.

So gotta go call my mom, it's her birthday as well. She is....81!! Happy Birthday Mom.

I sent her this cool purple orchid in a zen style arrangement. And yes, my books. Don't have them yet, but will soon.