Dressing, dressing, who’s got the dressing?!
Last night I stood in front of my refrigerator for, no lie, 4 minutes searching for the salad dressing I wanted to pack for lunch today. At 4 minutes and 1 second, I finally found it RIGHT IN FRONT OF MY FACE. Why are the obvious items always the hardest to find?! Sheesh!
Ohhh anyways…happy Monday! You ready for a new week?! I’m kicking mine off with breakfast on-the-go:
Featuring a Blueberry Chobani Greek Yogurt.
I nearly fainted from excitement when I saw a 3/$1 sign next to these babies at the grocery store yesterday. I threw ~20 into my cart…only to find out that the expiration date was for 10/5 – aka – THIS TUESDAY! I know yog/milk is usually good after it’s marked exp date, but there’s no way I was going to be able to eat as many as I grabbed in a safe amount of time. I put 16 back… ;)
Rounded out with a BBBP. Banana + Barney Butter Packet.
Super easy to eat on the go. Just bite, squeeze, and repeat!
I packed a ginormous Kitchen Sink Salad with all the fixins’ for lunch.
In the mix:
- Dole Very Veggie Salad Mix
- Tomato
- Celery
- Carrots
- DiLusso Low-Sodium Deli Turkey
- Dried cranberries
Here’s the elusive salad dressing I was after! I like this dressing because I recognize all the ingredients in the ingredient list, and it tastes really good. On par with Annie’s Lite Raspberry Vinaigrette – my previous Rasp Vin of choice!
To be rounded out with some leftover carrots & celery from my Cozy Lunch at Home lunch party and a mini Cashew Cookie Larabar. Good!
In other news…
I’ve done a lot of cool things over the past year. Such as creating my own flavor of ice cream.
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Appearing in a Claritin D allergy ad in Fitness Magazine (nerd alert!)
Winning a free year’s supply of eggs.
Getting a bird’s eye view of Iowa,
and even exploring Rome.
Well, today marks the beginning of another adventure in life – I’m starting a new job! :D
Just a little background – I graduated with a bachelors degree in Marketing and since graduating I’ve worked in the interactive marketing industry for digital agencies and, most recently, a publishing company. I’ve done everything from maintaining websites, to email marketing and everything in between.
The opportunity that I’ve been presented with is to bring my experience in the interactive industry to a local, non-profit museum that I absolutely adore and 100% believe in. I believe in what it does for my state, the Midwest and the experience it provides our community. Plus I’m a hardcore history nerd at heart, so this is right up my alley. Right now, for privacy reasons, I’d prefer to not specifically name the museum, but let me tell you – it’s a lot of fun. :)
When you’re working 8-10+ hours a day, usually longer than you’re actually at home, I think at some point it’s important to find a job and/or career that you strongly like – a job that fulfills you on a personal level (ie, my Dad leaving the business world he found completely unfulfilling after 30 years, to become a teacher!)
Also, I say strongly like instead of love because I’m practical. Not everyone is going to love everything about their job every single day, however, knock on wood, I think I’m going to strongly like this job a lot. I’m excited to use what I know for a company that I whole heartedly believe in.
Wish me luck – be back tonight with deets!
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Do you like what you do? Do you think you need to find a job that you “strongly like” in order to be fulfilled in life?
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Congrats on your new job, Kristen!! I am so happy you have found something you think you will “strongly like”!! :)
I switched jobs earlier this year and it is amazing what an effect it had on my life outside of work. I am happier, healthier, and I have more time to do the things I actually love doing. Realistically I probably won’t have a paying job doing what I love (unless Martha Stewart’s position opens up) but in the meantime I agree that doing something you strongly like is sooooo important. Congratulations on the move!
Congrats! I’m excited for you!
I definitely left my job as a financial advisor because I did not “strongly like” it.
Congratulations on the job! I’m going to come right out and say it, I LOVE what I do. Though I tend to be exaggeratingly optimistic and I’ve only been there three months. I was blessed to get a job right after college, working for a general contractor, which is exactly what I wanted. It’s a really wonderful, family-oriented company, that’s busy (even in these tough times!) and has been around for 100 years. Everyone I work with absolutely loves their job and a majority of the employees have been there over 20 years! I have at least one “i love my job!” moment every day. AND it’s giving me skills and knowledge (and savings account) to someday work for a non-profit like Habitat for Humanity.
Congrats on the new job!
And I’ll second a previous comment that I’m with your dad on the fulfilling job thing. I left a job in corporate America 3+ years ago (for which I had already gotten an MBA!) to go back to school for a PhD in order to be able to teach college classes. I’m still finishing my dissertation but I’m teaching at a local college this year and I STRONGLY LIKE it (I’d dare to see I love it a lot of days…).
I thought I would enjoy teaching, and I do, but I especially love teaching college kids. We all remember how the world looks from that perspective, and it’s fabulous. It’s fun to be along on a journey with students when they’re in that place in life!
I think it’s awesome that your dad left the business world to be a teacher. I’m a teacher myself, and it took me longer than I would have liked to figure out what I wanted to do. However, I couldn’t see myself doing anything else…except baking all day:) Congrats on the new job.