Valentine's Day Breakfast

Some people, like my friend Sharon, are able to take off work on Valentine’s Day to spend all day with their special someone, breakfast included. Like most people at Celebrity Foods and elsewhere, I don’t have the liberty of taking off work for V-Day. But I’m still going to suggest my friend Sharon’s V-day breakfast to my own special someone for the weekend after the holiday.

Sharon’s Valentine’s Day Breakfast: Celebrity Foods Potato Pancakes accompanying a delicious cheesy omelet. Made with fresh potatoes and whole eggs, these pancakes only take about 5 minutes to cook and go great with any omelet. They’re a treat that makes my breakfast bar seem like an old fashioned diner. Ah, the romantic-ness of a country diner, tucked away in an apartment complex far, far away……from the traffic lights.

If you have a breakfast treat in mind to enjoy around Valentine’s Day, do share. The more ideas the better.

My Last Valentine's Day Date

Last Valentine’s Day, I was camping with my honey, who happens to be an outdoor junkie, in Joshua Tree. When we go on our camping expeditions, we always like to bring good food. That is one of the coolest things about working at Celebrity Foods. I always have great food to choose from. On our last outing, I packed the Burgundy Wine Peppercorn Beef Kabobs. As it turns out, those kabobs were the only thing easy about our trip. To start, we were missing a couple of tent poles and the junkie was a bit grouchy (in their defense they were just getting over a cold). Eventually we tied off two ends of the tent to a tree. It was like an episode of survivor. Albeit with a full belly, it was a long, cold wet weekend. Take it from me, check your tent prior to entering the wilderness.

This year I don’t have the same date for Valentine’s Day (I’m still reeling from the last experience). However, I do intend to share those tender kabobs with my new honey for this Valentine’s Day’s menu. Some things on a date should be guaranteed (I’m talking about food here, people).

If food saved your Valentine’s Day experience, let me know by responding to this post. We have all experienced dating’s unpredictable nature.

Lifestyle of Celebrity Foods Alumni

Well Being

The Fourth Edition of The American Heritage Dictionary defines well-being as “the state of being healthy, happy, or prosperous.” Although we can’t pick healthy, happy, and prosperous from a tree, I think, as Celebrity Foods' former employees, an employee for any company, and as simply human beings, the fast track to well-being is simple. You just have to want it.

Let’s start with being healthy. I truly believe our activities and eating habits determine how healthy we are. As a Celebrity Foods’ employee, I see my co-workers take these two factors into consideration when designing programs for our customers. However, all too often we forget that their needs are our needs too. We must remember to engage in daily activity which may be as simple as walking across the parking lot to our cars every evening after work. If that’s all the exercise we get for the day then we should also try to stretch our legs and arms a couple times while at our desks. When it comes to our eating habits, we should keep in mind the food pyramid we learned in school, then add in special brain food like my favorite, chai tea. It’s all about the balancing act, what we want to do and what we want from our bodies. A healthy body also maintains a healthy mind.

Happiness is in the middle. While we’re trying to reach a goal, personal or professional, we hear a lot of suggestions from friends, family and co-workers. If we take all those suggestions, in addition to our own thoughts, into consideration, we have plenty of information to reach our goal. We just have to compromise to come up with a real solution to our goal that makes us happy and then we’re half way to well-being.

Our shoulders are the middle bridge connecting our arms and spine. It’s been said by many that we hold our stress in our shoulders. I say just roll that stress off. And then stretch those shoulders by raising your arms up to the sky to welcome not just relaxation in your shoulders but a new perspective on things. Adjust to stay on the road.

Prosperity completes well-being. Everyone defines and measures success differently with the same main goal in common. My friend Brett defines success as having the ability to laugh all day long. Today, as a Celebrity Foods employee, I will measure success by the number of minutes I have left in my day for mindless television shows. I want to fill my days and nights with more productive time. Each of us takes some time to think about success. That’s what it’s all about.

Healthy, happy, and prosperous, I am, at the moment, in the state of well-being, enjoying 'jus bloggin, in Tribe.net.