Smoothies, Cupcakes, and Grey's Anatomy

The past week and a half has been pretty stressful at work; my supervisor has been out sick, a friend of mine had his last day, and HIV research is booming! The work keeps piling up, but I feel like I'm not making a dent in the stack. For a type A personality, like myself, feeling like I'm not in control of my work is quite unsettling. I felt this way once before, when I first started, about a year ago and a half ago. After 6 months, much work, including working during my off week at Christmas, I was finally able to get things under control. I felt like I knew what I was doing and met my deadlines without much stress. I want to get back there, now. I do not plan on working during Christmas break again- no bueno.

Anyway, today was particularly stressful for me. It all just hit me, I have SO much to do, in so little time. Normally, I would take a step back, regroup my racing thoughts, make a plan, and start from there. However, today, I decided to take a step back...eat a cupcake, drink a guava, coconut, and mango smoothie, and watch Grey's Anatomy (three of my favorite things)!

Turned out to be a great lunch break :)

I had been craving a cupcake for days now, but have been staying away. But, after a day like today, I just said "whatever," grabbed my keys and wallet, and drove over to Gigi's Cupcakes, which happened to be next door to Tropical Smoothie (the workers here were so nice- didn't hate me for basically coming up with my own smoothie!). So, the cupcakes, totally worth talking about because they were delicious! I had actually never been there before, and I must say, worth the hype. I actually didn't realize that this was a franchise until I googled it after. I got the Wedding Cake (white cake with frosting) and the Pumpkin White Chocolate. I indulged in the Wedding Cake first. So moist, dense, and a texture close to that of an angel food cake. I was pleasantly surprised. I ate the pumpkin 4 hours later (planed on saving it for tomorrow, but who was I kidding). Anyway, it had a similar texture as the wedding cake, with little white chocolate surprises throughout! YUMMY! I will say, it was a little too much icing for me, but that's because I'm not big on icing, just the cake part.

Anyway, this nice break did help clear my head a bit, though I still don't know where I'm going to start tomorrow. But that's okay, because I know that in the end, I always get it done! *fingers crossed*

Happy Tuesday (AHH! I get my MCAT scores a week from tonight), here's to a better tomorrow (can't indulge in cupcakes everyday)! :)