Super-Saturday

It has been an eventful Saturday!

• I woke up slept in until 8 and then got up to get ready for the farmers market with my mom. I did my regular routine of vitamins before making my tea.. Well my multi-chewable (yes i still take chewable vitamins, including the gummy ones) fell on the floor and let's just say that Kiki got her extra nutrients this morning! I thought about taking it from her but she was just way too entertaining to watch so I let her enjoy it. i figured she'd be okay.
  
  
  
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• Got ready and hit up the farmers market with my mom. She was a first-timer and loved it! We both got tons of veggies and fruit including buckets of CHERRIES! Don't' worry, afterwards we walked over to Trader Joe's to get my daily supply of yogurt and bat my eyes at the cute cashier from last week!
  
  
  

• I got these lovely daffodils from TJs! I love how fresh flowers totally girly up our condo!
  
  

• My mom headed to a dentist appt. (i know, who goes on a Saturday!?) and I was totally spontaneous and decided to try out this indoor rock climbing place since they have a climb-hour on Saturdays! It was a lot of fun and a great strength training workout since I can't run right with my knee.
  
• I headed over to my beloved Whole Foods to pick up a couple energy bars and a tea. While I was browsing the isles, I noticed this mom who was holding her adopted/foster daughter down on the floor who was obviously not well. I guess the girl was having a breakdown and has a lot of emotional issues and kept trying to run off unless the mom held her down. I asked if there was anything I could do to help.
  
  The poor mom felt helpless so I just started talking to the girl and trying to distract her from whatever it was she was upset about.. asked her about her HS Musical tee shirt, etc...Do you know what worked?!?! Let's backtrack: I stopped in WF partly to grab one of those White Chocolate Macadamia Cliff Bars that all of you girls keep raving about... I asked the girl if she wanted to sit down in the isle and split it with me. Once I opened up the package, i knew I had her! hahah. Not only is that bar delicious but it was a lifesaver. She ate the whole thing! ( i did try a piece though and ya'll are right--it's goooood!)
  
  Finally with the girl sitting down without running off or in tears, I offered to stay with her while the mom went to go do her grocery shopping. One of the WF boys helped us out and gave us some Snackimals cookies and juice boxes to keep us occupied ;) I found out from the girl (Skyler/ 12 y.o.) that her mom had died from leukemia and her dad wanted nothing to do with her bc he lived in Florida... She is also being adopted next week! What a stressful time for her!
  
  About 20 min later, her "mom" finished her shopping and came back for her and her son who was also hanging out with us. The best part is that when we were hanging out and talking about how cute Zach Efron is, she told me that her HSM shirt was too small (length-wise).. I told her that she should ask her mom nicely to get her a new High School Musical 2 &3 shirt if she shows her she can be good. I also taught her how to use her girlish charm by "batting her eyes and smiling really big and it would work every time! hahah. (bad lessons, i know!) yes, we practiced batting our eyes while sitting and munching on Snackimals! So when her mom came back, she absolutely batted her eyes with this huge pleasing grin and said "If' i'm good, can you get me a new HS Musical shirt?" Mom said yes and I replied "seeeee, works every time!" hahaha.
  
  Skyler gave me a huge hug upon leaving and told me I was her best friend... aww, what a sweet girl! Can i adopt her?! ha, if only. I checked out and headed home for a much needed nap!
  
• Got home and ended up cleaning the entire downstairs of my condo to compliment my new flowers ;) Rewarded myself with this HUGE mug/bowl of iced chocolate almond milk with vanilla stevia and soy whip cream.. holllller! ha :)
  
  The phone is in there for size reference ;)
  
  

• About 8:30, I was finally hungry for some dindin.. Instead of photographing my FM buys, I figured I'd photograph a salad I made with all of 'em! This HUGE salad (which is the first one that i couldn't finish!) included arugula, rainbow chard, jumbo asparagus, crimini mushrooms, garlic onions, broccoli, POPS Parmesan & Garlic, with TJs eggplant hummus!

• Tonight, I'm just chillaxin (yes, i just used that word!)!! Tomorrow= dance class if I can manage through it with my gimp knee.
  
• Last night, some girlfriends and I saw Ghosts of Girlfriends Past.. cute movie. Not an Oscar nominee but entertaining nonetheless :) We also went to sushi and I ordered spring rolls thinking they were the ones wrapped in rice paper.. Didn't realize they were DEEP FRIED! Yuck aka Freakout aka What do I do now?! I ate the inside of one and a couple pieces of tuna before calling it quits. Luckily, i blamed it on the huge wrap I had for lunch!
  
• Lastly, for those that asked, the graduate schools that I plan to apply to (getting accepted is a whole other worry) include:
  - Columbia (Masters of Science in Education and Neuroscience)
  - San Francisco State (Masters in Psychological Research with focus in Cog. Science)
  - UC Davis (Ph.D in neuroscience and cognitive science)
  - UC Irvine (same program but I really dont want to stay in So Cal)
  - UC Berkeley (Yes, stef! hahah i'm applying there too!) (Same as UCI and UCD)
  - University of Arizona (Same as above)
  
  My first choice is the Columbia because of their program, then SFSU because of the area!! We'll see! I start my GRE course for the second time, tomorrow. Hopefully it goes better this time around!
  
• OFF TO BED! Looking forward to catching up on everyone's weekend extravaganzas!