Overnight Oats & The Pain In The Ass They Are
I'm back. Its been way too damn long. My life has turned a complete 360...or maybe a 180, I don't know how that works. Emma is on my mind more than ever. I don't honestly know how many Tuesdays its been. I used to keep up with it. I will count them out soon. I need to remember, it helps me grieve her. I feel like a bad mother because I haven't blogged. It stopped being therapeutic for a time. And then things started happening at home and then everything fell apart and other things fell together and my mind was in a million places and there's a blog to come on that, too. But its life. Its a part of life people don't talk about, much less blog about. But oh I am gonna. And this blog is public, so I'm sure onlookers may read and judge and whatever else but I don't mind. What I put out here are things I obviously don't mind sharing with the world. It helps to know you're not alone. That you're not the only almost divorced mother of 3...that you're not the only nurse who's not satisfied with their career YET and is striving for a bigger goal, a bigger purpose, you're not the only one who's lost a child and who lives day to day not knowing when the almost 3 year old grief is going to smother you in your sleep, and you're not the only one who yelled at their kids and realized what a dick you felt like when you did it.
Anyway, I digress about the catch-up. I'll get there, but for now lets get to the point.
So, I've always wanted to try overnight oats. But I have also consistently been too lazy to make them. I don't want to mess with steel cut oats, preparing fruits, buying this and that to make them. Besides, I wasn't even sure if I'd like them.
Well, yesterday while perusing the breakfast aisle in Kroger, (I was looking for cereal so that I could try my hand at cereal once again with some almond milk and see if I can tolerate it, because bacon and eggs gets kind of boring sometimes....and okay I was picking up crackers and cheese and hummus and maaayyybe some sushi and soda to mix with alcohol for my love and I later) I happened upon Quaker Overnight Oats. They had about 4 different variations, two of which being Toasted Coconut & Almond Crunch (which is what I ate this morning) and honey something or other, and I don't know the name because I only saved one google image and it was the one I ate. They were like 2 for $3 with your Kroger card.
So I followed the directions, except for I added almond milk; I use unsweetened vanilla, so that it isn't really sweet but it still has a taste and its not thick like whole milk it's more like 2% consistency. I chilled it overnight. I grabbed it on my way out the door to work this morning. It looked like it had set up pretty well. So I ate it at my desk in the little cubby hole in the middle where all the bad patients go in the ER here...because I figured as soon as I shoved a spoon in my mouth all hell would break loose, as per the usual, after all it was calm at the time and its Saturday morning, someone's bound to have overdosed last night, given the fact last night was Friday night.
But, alas, they did not. It stayed relatively calm while I enjoyed my overnight oats. And I truly did. I am pleased with my purchase. I may have cereal and toast tomorrow in lieu of that; because I just wanna switch it up, we'll see. It all depends on how busy the ER is. I'm going to go ahead and take responsibility for the fact that I also went and got some ham and a biscuit. WTF Amberly?? YOU need to drop 5 lbs before your fat ass heads to NH, where you're going to be not watching what you're eating and having clam chowdah, airport food, and god knows what else.
Okay okay. Back on the wagon. I don't have the boys until Monday evening. There's no reason that I cannot jog this evening, get my heart rate up, then shower before Darrell gets home to squish the breath out of me. There's also no excuse for me not to get outside Sunday night after work too. I'm only having chips/crackers whatever they are, hummus, and part skim mozzarella for lunch, unless they have some grilled chicken downstairs, then I can use that for protein. For dinner, I may have some PB2 on bread and some other low cal snack. We'll see.
I have a problem with going to the gym when its summertime because outside is just so much more enjoyable and lets face it, if you work ER the only time you see the light of day if your facility is like mine and rarely gives you an actual LUNCH...is when you walk outside to drag a patient from the car. OR if you're the triage nurse and you have to stick your head out the triage door to yell someone's name for them to come back and you get a glimpse out the waiting room window.
Its accountability day. I find blogging helps me have accountability.
Anyway, time to get back to work...sick people wait for nobody, especially not for them to blog.
xoxo
Anyway, I digress about the catch-up. I'll get there, but for now lets get to the point.
So, I've always wanted to try overnight oats. But I have also consistently been too lazy to make them. I don't want to mess with steel cut oats, preparing fruits, buying this and that to make them. Besides, I wasn't even sure if I'd like them.
Well, yesterday while perusing the breakfast aisle in Kroger, (I was looking for cereal so that I could try my hand at cereal once again with some almond milk and see if I can tolerate it, because bacon and eggs gets kind of boring sometimes....and okay I was picking up crackers and cheese and hummus and maaayyybe some sushi and soda to mix with alcohol for my love and I later) I happened upon Quaker Overnight Oats. They had about 4 different variations, two of which being Toasted Coconut & Almond Crunch (which is what I ate this morning) and honey something or other, and I don't know the name because I only saved one google image and it was the one I ate. They were like 2 for $3 with your Kroger card.
So I followed the directions, except for I added almond milk; I use unsweetened vanilla, so that it isn't really sweet but it still has a taste and its not thick like whole milk it's more like 2% consistency. I chilled it overnight. I grabbed it on my way out the door to work this morning. It looked like it had set up pretty well. So I ate it at my desk in the little cubby hole in the middle where all the bad patients go in the ER here...because I figured as soon as I shoved a spoon in my mouth all hell would break loose, as per the usual, after all it was calm at the time and its Saturday morning, someone's bound to have overdosed last night, given the fact last night was Friday night.
But, alas, they did not. It stayed relatively calm while I enjoyed my overnight oats. And I truly did. I am pleased with my purchase. I may have cereal and toast tomorrow in lieu of that; because I just wanna switch it up, we'll see. It all depends on how busy the ER is. I'm going to go ahead and take responsibility for the fact that I also went and got some ham and a biscuit. WTF Amberly?? YOU need to drop 5 lbs before your fat ass heads to NH, where you're going to be not watching what you're eating and having clam chowdah, airport food, and god knows what else.
Okay okay. Back on the wagon. I don't have the boys until Monday evening. There's no reason that I cannot jog this evening, get my heart rate up, then shower before Darrell gets home to squish the breath out of me. There's also no excuse for me not to get outside Sunday night after work too. I'm only having chips/crackers whatever they are, hummus, and part skim mozzarella for lunch, unless they have some grilled chicken downstairs, then I can use that for protein. For dinner, I may have some PB2 on bread and some other low cal snack. We'll see.
I have a problem with going to the gym when its summertime because outside is just so much more enjoyable and lets face it, if you work ER the only time you see the light of day if your facility is like mine and rarely gives you an actual LUNCH...is when you walk outside to drag a patient from the car. OR if you're the triage nurse and you have to stick your head out the triage door to yell someone's name for them to come back and you get a glimpse out the waiting room window.
Its accountability day. I find blogging helps me have accountability.
Anyway, time to get back to work...sick people wait for nobody, especially not for them to blog.
xoxo
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