Winning Friends with Salad

Okay, so I was on the subway this morning and I saw this girl wearing sneakers and tights. Now, that may sound wrong, but on her it looked totally cute. And I started to think about how when I was in grade school I would have been appalled - you never wore sneakers with tights! It didn’t make sense to my 3rd grade mind proportionately - plus I always thought the sneakers would tear up the bottom of your tights.

Now, some of you may be shocked to hear this, but I went to Catholic School. Not for a year or two, but for 14 years! From Pre-K to Senior Year in High School. And this girl’s outfit started me thinking about what I wore in school. Obviously we had a uniform, which from 1st to 6th grade was this:

Classic, right? Except no tie (thank goodness), and I thought no pleats, but I have been corrected by my sister Emily, who assures me we had those pleats. I’m old and my memory’s going, apparently. Now, with this jumper you were supposed to wear socks in the Spring and Fall and tights in the Winter. But I hated tights with a passion - my mom would have to wrestle me into them screaming and crying. She gave that up around age 6. (I still refuse to wear tights to this day.) Anyway, I wore socks year-round. And in true 80’s, early 90s style I wore folded over white tube socks. I wanted to wear these:

Or these:

But my mom was not having it.

Now when I was Googling around to find my jumper, I came across some really cute ones that made me bitter. Such as:

Cute! Minus the tie, of course. I’d love to have wore that. And then this one:

What the h?! I’d wear that now! (And isn’t that a little short?)

Anyway, in 7th grade you got to move up to the “big girl” uniform which was a white or blue oxford shirt and this skirt:

High school was more boring, just a plain khaki skirt - but starting in 7th grade through Senior Year of HS, these socks started creeping up all over the place:

White, sheer, over the knee socks, which my mom deemed ’slut socks’. Oh my goodness, did I want to wear these - every single day I would try to put on the one pair that I bought in the supermarket without permission with money from my after school job working in a children’s store. I never had the guts. Except for one time. I felt like a hussy the entire day. I think I may have even taken them off at lunch, I was so embarrassed for their brazenness. Haha, good times.

Annnnyway, I hope you’ll continue reading the blog despite my Catholic-School-ness. It would help if I talked about food, soo…

Before I left the office, I had an afternoon snack at 5 PM:

Luna bar in my fave flavor: Chocolate Peppermint Stick

My session with MB last night was awesome - it was a leg-heavy workout. My gams were screaming afterward! We used the rolly tube to stretch afterwards and it hurt so much. Do you guys ever use that thing? Why does it hurt so much??? Session with MaryBeth = 721 calories burned.

After the gym, I went to Trader Joe’s for some cheap groceries and then back uptown. Unfortunately I got stuck for 20 min on the subway and I was almost an hour late for dinner. So I broke into another Luna bar to tide me over - no pic, I was starving.

At home, I fixed a cilantro chicken sausage on a whole wheat roll:

This morning, I was running short on time, so I had to have breakfast at work. Quaker Oat High Fiber Instant Oatmeal in Brown Sugar, banana, nonfat milk:

with a little bit of PB on the spoon. This was surprisingly delicious! I’m really happy I had the oatmeal at the office in case of a pinch. Well done!

Have a great day!