It's raining transmission fluid

So, this is actually for yesterday, as I was supposed to work on a week late paper, but fell asleep while I as writing it. Oh well. I'll write it in a little bit. So yesterday, I'm driving back home from work and need to stop to get some gas. As I'm on the freeway I notice that my car sounds funny. And then as I'm getting off the freeway on the exit for the gas station, I notice it's driving funny, and then only going 30mph. So I pull into the gas station and park it and it's smoking from underneath my hood. I open it up and BAM!! transmission fluid is all over the place and dripping from underneath the car. Grr!! It's like 10:30pm and I don't know anyone that has towing equipment, which means I'll have to spend lots of money to get a tow ($100 in fact). And now it is raining today, which means that my father doesn't want to come out to take a look at what's wrong with it. (It also means anyone else I ask is also less likely to come out and take a look at it.) So, I have to miss class today and I'm contemplating taking work off because I can get to work via bus and light rail and take light rail home, but there's no bus at night time. And my coworker that drives by my exit is not working tonite. It's just one thing after another.

Breakfast:


For breakfast, I made a fritatta. It was my first time making it and was pretty simple. I posted the recipe on my recipes page. For one wedge it's only about 175cal! I only had about half a banana, with a quarter of it on a piece of peanut butter toast. mmmm. so yummy, but had so many calories in the one little thing. Had a total of 220cal. So my breakfast was a total of 395 cal. I had woke up and decided to make Kev breakfast before school (about 9:30am) and I think he liked it, so I think it's a winner! I think it could have had something else to it though, maybe finely chopped spinach or something. I also had a 16.9Fl OZ bottle of water with breakfast. It's easier to drink the water bottles then the fruit punch I have, because I don't want to wash a cup. haha.

Lunch:

I didn't get to make a lunch before I left the house today, so I had to wait until after class to eat, about 2:30pm. So I grabbed two Taco Bell fresco style soft tacos (total of 360cal). On my way home I was wishing I had bought a water bottle from Taco Bell because there was a terrible accident on the freeway and it slowed traffic to a snail crawl, which in turn made me 15min late to work and I didn't get the things down that I wanted to.

Snack:
I had a Special K 90cal strawberry bar. I think I agree with Jessica the strawberry is better than the chocolate. (Gasp! I can't believe I just said something was better than chocolate. I must be crazy) I had also grabbed a banana, but I didn't feel like eating it quite yet. I did grab another water bottle though and found its pretty easy to drink one bottle on my 15min drive to work. I left for work at about 3:20pm today.

When I got to work, I couldn't resist one of our oatmeal raisin cookies (and I should have). My manager estimated it to be 400calories. That is crazy. Because our restaurant has less than 25 restaurants in California, we don't have to provide nutritional information, which is a total bummer to me. I also ate 2 chips, but I mean how many calories could those have? According to Fitday a potato chip has 7.5cal, so my two chips were a total of 15 calories! bleh. stupid chips. At our restaurant the way they make homemade chips is just thinly slice potatoes, fry them in oil, and throw some salt on 'em. pretty basic but sooo tasty! I think at work I had also drank about 18FL OZ of water before I had dinner.

Dinner:

I had my tagliatelle creation, but this time I added asparagus and reverted back to butter. It was pretty tasty except my asparagus was a little too crunchy for my pasta and the cooks were making fun of me because I asked for garlic but picked it out. I told them I like the flavor cooked in it but not to eat the pieces. This pasta was about 505cal. So they told me to ask for minced next time. I also drank about another eh..12fl oz of water with dinner (around 9:30pm). Then, it was time to leave work and all the crazy stuff that I talked about above happened.

By the end of this posting I got someone to agree to come take a look at my car at about 5pm today. I'm trying to get my shift covered so I hope one of the girls responds back with a yes. And I'm missing class today because I dont feel like spending hours on busses and light rail today. My groupmates aren't going to be too happy as we're doing an experiment in class. Hey they can't say I didn't do anything. I did create the powerpoint presentation they need to do the experiment and I'll be back on Thursday to help them analyze the data. Well, I'm off to work on my Research Paper.

Total Calories for Monday: 1675
Total Water: 63.8fl oz