Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Too Many Meetings

by Meghann on January 27, 2009

Today has been crazy at work. I was in non-stop meetings and had projects of my own to work on in between. We have an important meeting to prepare for the week I return from Colorado, so I am trying to get all of the stuff I need for that done before I leave.

I am sorry about the lack of lunch updates and e-mail responses, but hopefully my week will calm down soon. I am ready for vacation!

I really despise not having a camera. :( Luckily Caitlin is letting me borrow her old camera until I get mine fixed. I am picking it from her tomorrow, so bare with me until then!

Between meetings this morning I thankfully had time for a quick snack. I don’t know what it is about meetings that make me so hungry? I did enjoy a Pumpkin Pie Kashi Granola Bar… sooooo good!.

Lunch was one of those fun hodge podge combinations that involves all of the different foods I was dreaming about at work. Again my photos are courtesy of PhotoBooth. Which, Melissa, is the web camera photo program on Macs. :)

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I toasted an Arnolds Thin, coated the two halves with Cashew Butter and topped with Apple Slices. On the side I had the remaining Apple Slices, Broccoli, and 3 squares of Jalepeno Cheese.

Sounds like an odd combination, but I really enjoyed it. Would you believe me if I told you the jalepeno cheese went great on the cashew butter/ apple combo? Trust me it did!

Again, more meetings, more projects and more documents I had to piece together in the afternoon. Before my 4:00 meeting (which lasted until 5:45 :-/ ) I had a serving size of Harvest Whole Wheat Crackers.

I had plans on taking Blue a for spin after work, but since the meeting ran so long I didn’t have time. Bummer.

I got home starving and seriously spent the whole last half of my meeting dreaming about dinner. Ideas flew through my head on how I could use up my veggies before I fly out this weekend and I came up with a simple veggie salad to go a long with another thing that was on my mind… a Flat Out Calzone!

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I cooked up a Turkey Italian Sausage and added some Marinara Sauce. I covered half of a Flat Out Spinach wrap with the saucy mixture and topped with about a 1/4 cup of Mozzarella Cheese. I then folded it over like a Calzone and baked at 350 for 5 minutes. It was great!

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On the side I shredded some Carrot and Zucchini, which I mixed with Tomato, Green Onion, Garlic Salt, Oregano, Thyme, Balsalmic Vinegar, & EVOO. It was a very flavorful, unique veggie salad.

Then of course for dessert I had a small Brownie and a bite sized Chocolate Chip Ricotta Cookie. Yum!

Keep up the great work Ladies (and Gentlemen)! We are now up to a total of $1,125.96 for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society!! WOO HOO!!

THANK YOU! to Leslie from Pink Spandex for taking the time to make a donation today. Way to cheer me up!

Countdown to Blogging Bake Sale12 Days! Are you ready for some baking? :)

  

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I Needed to Run

by Meghann on January 27, 2009

Thank you all of your support in my post last night. I wrote it in a very passionate state and re-reading it realized I may have been a little harsh to the Geek Squad people. I realize they were just doing their job and probably deal with upset girls on a regular basis. Thanks for not calling me out on that.

With that being said, I will be taking your advice and contacting some higher ups at Best Buy in the name of my sanity. It just doesn’t feel right to let them get away with it.

I had too much drama yesterday and when I have too much drama I am always in desperate need of a run. So, this morning I took off and cleared my head. I went over a lot of things that were on my plate and honestly feel better. Running always makes me feel more organized in my head

I slammed out 5 miles at a pace of 9:25. It felt good to just leave it all on the road.

With no camera I resorted to PhotoBooth to photograph my breakfast.

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I had 1/2 cup of Kashi Blueberry Oat clusters,  1/2 Cup Peanut Butter Puffins, a spoonful of Stoneyfield (someone one was asking what brand of yogurt I ate) Non-Fat Vanilla Yogurt, Blueberries, Grapes, and a sprinkle of Ezekial 4:19 Almond Crunch Granola on top.

The good breakfast also made me feel better.

Before I went to bed last night I did receive some exciting news.. it looks like mine and Melissa’s Sushi Extravaganza won the newly re-errected BSI contest sponsored by Biz this week. Yay! Melissa and I will be sure to have lunch together at Whole Foods in the honor of BSI some time soon.

I have another day swamped with meetings and a crazy workload. Wish Me Luck that today will be better then yesterday!

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