GTKY Tuesday

[supertrooper1]

1. You have a few minutes of downtime at work, what are you doing?  (besides the WPs board)

2. What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast?  What do you most often eat for breakfast?  

[mae0111]

1. You have a few minutes of downtime at work, what are you doing? (besides the WPs board)
Laundry, cleaning, online shopping, grocery order. Or, like today, I"m following the live stream of an insane murder case in my area. Corruption of the local and state police, ATF, District Attorneys, judges. Witness tampering and intimidation. A local reporter/blooger thrown in jail for blowing the lid off all of it. Can't wait for the Netflix documentary...

2. What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? What do you most often eat for breakfast?
Favorite breakfast is a warm fresh bagel with cream cheese. Most often breakfast is a tie - either a Quest protein bar or a 100 calorie English muffin with peanut butter and jelly. Both accompanied by Chai tea.

[mommyatty]

1. Playing a mindless game on my iPad.
2. Frankly my favorite breakfast is any breakfast food I don’t have to cook! Lol. But specifically southern biscuits and sausage gravy. My normal breakfast is a bagel, which I will cover in pbj or cream cheese. If cream cheese, I sprinkle everything bagel seasoning or cinnamon-sugar.

[sdlaura]

1. Travel planning. I always have some outstanding trips that I want to plan stuff for. Currently working on an itinerary of wineries and restaurants and spa for a girls trip to Napa next month. Or texting with my 3 close friends (one is a coworker but now works in a different state) who I go on the annual girls trip with - we all work FT in the same industry and have young kids, so have a pretty constant text thread going everyday.

2. I used to eat cereal, and when I was trying to eat lighter I would alternate cereal with cheesy eggs. But then a little over a year ago, I decided I wanted to lose a few pounds, and realized if I switched to just having a banana for breakfast or not really eating breakfast at all, I missed that less than cutting out other fun stuff throughout the day. So now usually just a banana.

[supertrooper1]

1. If I have a free minute, I'm either on my phone playing a game, scrolling through social media, or reading my local newspaper online.

2. My favorite is biscuits and gravy, with some type of breakfast potato and ham on the side. I don't have a consistent thing that I eat for breakfast now. When I was in the office every day, it was something that I could grab and go like a breakfast cookie or breakfast burrito. Now I often have leftovers or make myself something like an egg McMuffin or just apples and cheese.

[k3am]

1. Walking the stairs. Or sitting at the top of the stairwell on my phone.
2. I go through phases. Right now if I'm at home, a protein shake. And I'm oddly really happy with it - tastes like dessert, easy to make, easy to clean up. If I'm eating out, the answer is almost always chilaquiles. If they're on the menu somewhere, I'm ordering it. I love that they're never the same at different places.

sdlaura, what's on your list for Napa?

[186momx]

Right now during my free minutes I'm trying to close my eyes and take deep breaths. During the off season, I browse the internet, chat with my dad, walk the dog, any maybe read a fun book especially if I'm alone for the day.

I normally skip breakfast. I can't eat first thing so I want breakfast at 10ish and by then I'm busy and just forget about it. If I do eat something it is usually yogurt.

[rere]

1. Go for a walk, or scroll social media.

2. I want to eat biscuits and gravy and fried eggs or pancakes or waffles. I actually eat: Greek yogurt, blueberries, and almonds; or 35 calorie wheat toast, peanut butter and .5 banana with cinnamon; or 35 calorie wheat toast, . 5 avocado, and an egg.

I use a half a protein shake for my coffee cream.

[erbear]

1. I don't get that much downtime -- if I don't have a class, I'm usually grading or planning. If I have a few minutes, I'll jump online or chat with a friend.

2. I alternate between oatmeal with blueberries and eggs (usually with avocado) during the week. My favorite thing is a brunch with an eggs florentine.

[sdlaura]

k3am I'm still early in my planning but would love any recommendations. This same group has done a prior girls trip like maybe 9 years ago to Healdsburg, and we've all been to Napa/Sonoma/surrounding areas a bunch before separately/with husbands, so I'm trying to avoid some of the big names, though we may go to Frog's Leap. I love a good tasting menu or some kind of snack food pairings and nice views/patio vs. just tasting wine. Some of the wineries I wrote down so far based on research are Palmaz, Henry, and B Cellars.

We're staying in the town of Napa. Looks like we could walk to a few tasting rooms. One near us called Vinoce gets good reviews.

For meals, we may go to Ad Hoc to eat Thomas Keller food while not paying $400 a person for the French Laundry (DH and I liked Ad Hoc before, on a trip pre-kids).

I'd love any recommendations! We were originally going to go to spa and pool at the Carneros hotel the first full day we're there, but I called and their pools are under construction. So I think we'll go North to the Health Spa Napa Valley instead.

So anyway, I need to work on organizing the days so that we have enough to do but aren't having to leave each place before we're ready. And debating a driver vs. driving ourselves to the first couple, then parking the car back at the rental and ubering to another couple/maybe walking to dinner. We'll see!

[k3am]

sdlaura, I haven't wine tasted in Napa proper in forever.. we tend to stick to anywhere *but* Napa in the region. But I could spend hoooooooours planning. Totally out of the way for this trip for you, but Korbel was a shockingly standout tasting. I was expecting it to be terrible (hello, Korbel!) but they have some good stuff and beautiful gardens.

Migration (Duckhorn brand) has a new tasting room in Napa.. we haven't been yet, but it's on our list since we're Duckhorn members (aka the tasting is free).

My boss's boss recently turned me on to Darioush, which is a Persian winery and so unique. I haven't been to the winery, but I've been impressed with the wines I've had from there.

I'd *highly* recommend you consider the wine train, a tour, or just staying downtown and walking to wineries unless you're hiring a driver (or have a confirmed DD). A lot of places are now also VERY strict about reservations, which they weren't previously. (Which does help with overdoing it at least?)

[sdlaura]

k3am when I studied abroad in college, my marketing project was on how to introduce Korbel to the European market. And I did awful on it because I blew off school and traveled too much. So not sure I want to dredge up those Korbel memories

We'll likely just go to restaurants in Napa proper and venture further afield to wineries. And yep, we'll have reservations for everywhere we go, which is why I'm trying to plan out an itinerary now. Migration also popped up in my search, so we might check it out. Thanks for the Darioush rec!

Last time DH and I went to a wine region with another couple, we hired someone to just drive our car for the day, which was less expensive than the town car/SUV driver set-up, which we've also done. One time we did a very small "tour" in the past, and that was actually fun to meet other people, too. My friends and I aren't huge drinkers anymore (I prefer to spit out anything not amazing so I don't get too drunk ), which is why we may split up the day into self-driving early and Uber later. We'll see once I figure out exactly where we're going.

Do you know anyone who has been to Promontory? I guess it's a darling of Hollywood types. Very pricey tasting but apparently very good wine.

[dglvrk2]

sdlaura, your Napa trip sounds amazing!

Your work break activities are inspiring me to plan a girl's trip for this fall. It's been years since I've just been away with girls and no kids or husbands.

At work....I usually take breaks by texting friends/family or -yes- reading the Dear Abby and Dear Annie advice columns!!

My go to breakfast is grape nuts with berries and almond milk. For brunches, I love scrambles with lots of veggies and good cheese or salmon.

[sdlaura]

dglvrk2 do you ever read Carolyn Hax’s advice column? She’s my favorite and has even answered one of my questions before

[macmars45]

1. Downtime is reading a good book. Right now I'm reading books by Kristin Hannah.

2. I love breakfast foods! Eggs, french toast, waffles... yum. However, I usually eat cereal and banana because it's quick and easy. And coffee. Always coffee.

[rere]

Mar 13, 2024 8:31:34 GMT -5 macmars45 said:

1. Downtime is reading a good book. Right now I'm reading books by Kristin Hannah.

2. I love breakfast foods! Eggs, french toast, waffles... yum. However, I usually eat cereal and banana because it's quick and easy. And coffee. Always coffee.

I just found her books and have really enjoyed them! I have several on hold on my Libby app.

[dglvrk2]

Mar 12, 2024 21:39:44 GMT -5 sdlaura said:

dglvrk2 do you ever read Carolyn Hax’s advice column? She’s my favorite and has even answered one of my questions before

No, but I will now!! Thanks for the rec!

[campermom]

1) probably chatting w coworkers. Usually about work though.
2) A normal day is just a protein shake with espresso in it over ice. I’ve been on a Premier Pritein cafe or cinnamon roll flavor kick lately