Free Lunch

Free lunches at work are the bane of my diet.  We usually have lunch catered when we have visitors for work.  They usually order way too much and us low level employess can scavenge the leftovers.  This is usually after I have already eaten my lunch.  I simply cannot refuse the offer of free food.  So for lunch today, I had a Lean Cuisine, blueberry Greek yogurt, and a half baggie of baked Cheetos with water.  In addition to this, I grabbed half a steak sammy, a small turkey sandwich, a bag of Baked Lays (only ate like 3 chips), a Pepsi, and a chocolate chip cookie.  Ugh!  I have no will power.  All those extra calories only because it was free!

Hopefully, I will only eat half the cookie and drink half the Pepsi.  One can always hope right?

Business Casual

We had our pictures taken today for new badges and a group picture to commemorate the move into our new building.  Apparently, the group picture will be placed inside a time capsule.  We were directed to dress business casual for this picture to anticipate the dress code shift when we move into the new building.  It was very interesting to see what people considered business casual.  There were still a good number of people in blue jeans.  Some tried to skirt the denim rule by wearing black jeans.  Some went the opposite direction and went for business with a pant suit.

I went for business chic and wore my only pair of black slacks with a off white tank that has a sequined panel in the front with a black cardigan.  I finished off the look with my new belt and black Tory Burch flats.  I think I need some new ones since these are getting worn down.  I'm thinking of going to the Nordstrom half anniversary sale today and see if I can find some more pants or cardigans.

Yay for Annual Raises

I got mine today.Yay.  That is all.

Blargh

What a great way to start out the week!  I forgot to set my alarm last night and didn't wake up until 8:30 am when the hubster's phone started ringing.  I wasn't too worried about oversleeping since my work is pretty lax about schedule and hours.  However, I forgot that I had gotten invited to a somewhat important meeting and completely missed and forgot it!  Oh well, can't do anything about it now.

The day just got progressively worse as I worked on this proposal.  Everyone and everything was pissing me off and I was just sitting there seething.  I went on a walk for a break in the afternoon and my co-worker told me I looked really pissed off which I was.  He said I looked better then, but I just got on the phone with the hubster to whine and complain and vent about how poorly my day was going and how I hated everyone I work with (which is not true, it just felt very true at that moment).

So here I sit at work for another hour and half because I slept in and need to leave early tomorrow to do a game at Kenyon.  I hope my week gets better.

Fridays

Here at work we have flex time.  It basically means as long as we work 40 hours a week, we are allowed to portion out our hours as we see fit.  There are some basic guidelines that you should be here during core hours, but it's at the discretion of your manager.  So I usually bank up hours throughout the week, so I can leave early on Fridays.  This is usually not a problem, but some weeks, I'll get that surprise meeting from the same colleague and end up staying later than I want a Friday.  It totally messes up the start of my weekend.  I usually plan to go shopping or hitting the gym earlier so we can go out at night.  This is one of those Fridays.  I know you have to have this meeting today, but why schedule it at 2:00??  What's worse is that I started to car pool to work with two people and today was my day to drive.  I made a big stink about leaving early today, and lo and behold, this happens.

Disturbing

I came into the office this morning to find this:





A Grumpy doll that was given to me by a co-worker hanging by a lanyard. I don't know if I should be afraid or what. It's weird, but I don't think it's a direct threat to me or something. I'm wondering if I should take it down or add to it.

Weird stuff like this keeps happening to me at work.  Just a few weeks ago, someone took all my candy and placed it all over my cube.  I think I'm still finding hidden candies.

Sore

Ugh, I'm so sore today.  I think I was getting a headache from how sore and stiff I am.  Today, I had to work and I had hoped that my 10:00 meeting would finish by lunch and I could sneak off for a quick last run at Snow Basin, but alas, it was not to be.  My colleague has a knack for talking and outwearing his visit.  So I'm robbed of my last run.  After the meeting, I'm not so sure if I'll be coming back next week for another meeting.  It doesn't  look good for getting on the general's schedule.  I'll be bummed.

So I love snowboarding.  LOVE.  I don't know what it is, but it's an amazing feeling when I am snowboarding.  Just the way that my bodies feels the mountain and reacts accordingly.  I still over-think it a bit, but I'm getting better.  I love it and I can't wait to go to Mad River Mountain next week even though it will only be a shadow of Utah.  *sigh*  I'm obsessed.

Anticipation

I am sooooo soooo sooooooo ready to go to Utah.  This week has been a roller coaster for me.  I've bounced back and forth from nervous/anxious/scared to excited to tired/exhausted and back to excited.  I can't wait to go snowboarding.  I've spent the last month slowly getting everything I need and I finally have it all.  I spent a good chunk of change and I tried my boots on with my board and bindings for the first time last night and the difference between what I have and the rental was amazing.  I feel I'm going to be that much better.

All those negative feelings I've had are a result of a big presentation I'll have to present on Monday to an colonel.  If he buys in to it, then I go back to Utah to present to his boss in two weeks.  It's kind of a big deal.  The last time I presented an older version of this presentation, it went ok.  Not swimmingly, but I wasn't laughed out of the conference room.  Still need to work on that public speaking and confidence thing.  I'm as prepared as I can be.  I know the presentation and info forwards and backwards, it's just when I start talking all the trouble starts.  I don't want to over prep because then if I don't say it exactly as rehearsed I get frustrated and tongue tied.  If I don't prep enough, I don't know what to say.  I'm not very quick on my feet.  I'm the kind of person that if you ask me a question that I'm not an expert on, I like to sit, think, mull over, and then answer.  I don't always have that luxury in these settings.

This post has gotten off track.  Bottom line, I'm ready to get on that plane and get everything over with.

Mug

So I had a post card from Starbucks for a free drink for my birthday that expired today. So I took the extra time this morning to head to my local Starbucks to redeem it. I don't usually drink coffee while driving so my beverage usually cools down too much by the time I get to work.

To avoid this, I brought along mu Audi mug. I love this mug. During the summer when I was bringing in iced coffees in the morning, this thing kept my drink ice cold. It works so well that mu drink still had ice in it at the end of the day! It's amazing! So it's doing a great job keeping my coffee hot and I can enjoy my hot free drink all day.

You might be asking how I got this awesome mug. Well, I got it for free when i bought my car. That's how we bargain in Ohio. If I had known how awesome this mug was going to be i might have asked for two, but I know that if I ever lost it, I'd pay to get another one. Knowing Audi, it's probably like $50 or some insane price.

Bad Start to the Week

So I'm headed to Baltimore for the US Lacrosse National Convention.  I'll be going with my friend, Caroline, and some reffing friends.  Caroline coaches a very successful middle school team here in Columbus.  It should be a fun trip.  So because of the convention, I have to take Friday off.  I'm trying to save my vacation hours for upcoming vacations this year (cousin's wedding, half  marathon in So Cal, Thanksgiving with the relatives, etc), so I'll be doing 10 hour days this week.  Hopefully, this will happen and I won't have to use any vacation time.

I'm already dreading waking up at 6 am to make this happen, but that was not a problem this morning.  I woke up at 5 am to the sound of Egg Roll vomiting.  Well, that's what it sounded like.  I jumped out of bed to search for a mess, but I couldn't find any.  I try to go back to sleep, but keep smelling something.  I thought Red had farted since I had just commented on a friend's blog about dog farts.  Nope, I wish.  Egg had made a poo-ey mess under the bed!  It was gross and stinky.  So that's how I spent my morning.  After that, I couldn't get back to bed, so I got into work extra early.  I think getting to work is hard, but staying there for 10 hours a day might prove to be even harder.  Wish me luck!

What a day =(

I woke up late this morning because I forgot to set my alarm clock.  I didn't mind getting in to work a little late since I had only 4 more hours to get in for the week.  This meant at the latest I should have left at 1 pm.  I had a deadline today to get some action items completed from a meeting in December.  Everything was pretty much squared away.  I was waiting for some data to process and off it should have went.

Well that obviously did not happen, especially if I'm writing about it now.  I didn't leave until 4:30 pm.    I was not a happy camper.  After about 2:00, I realized I wasn't going to leave any time soon.  The hubster had a pretty rough day too.  He spent an hour and half coming home.  The hubster and I ended up going to Five Guys for dinner and stopping into Victoria's Secret for their Semi-Annual Sale.  I bought a bikini (which I don't need) and a pair of panties.  The quality and selection of their sale items has gone down drastically.  I needed to buy something to make my day a little better and the hubster didn't want to go to Anthropologie with me.  We also stopped at Trader Joe's.  I'm not cheered up yet from my sucky day at work, but hopefully, more shopping tomorrow will.

Travel

There has been talk at work about needing to brief a colonel and general about the project I'm leading. I've been secretly hoping that they send me out to do it (they would pick me since I'm the technical lead) and soon. Only because I'd spend an extra day out in Salt Lake City to go snowboarding. I'd abhor trying to prep for the meeting and the actual brief, but it'd be worth it to go snowboarding again.  I think I've become a bit obsessed with going snowboarding after Blue Mountain when what I was doing slightly resembled snowboarding.

Water

I've recently reverted back to my old green Nalgene bottle from college since my current blue aluminum bottle started growing some black stuff on the o-ring. I guess I could just replace the o-ring, but I think I'd like a change.  This bottle is much bigger than my blue one. It's also clear so I can see how much I'm drinking.







I'm definitely drinking a lot more water which means I'm filling up my pur filter a lot more which means more filters. I think in an unconscious effort to ration my filters I wait to fill my bottle at work. It's so stupid. One because I cannot be that cheap and two, I have like 6 new filters at home waiting to be used. I mean I already use the filters until I can start tasting tap water and probably longer than that.

ZZzzzzzz...

I could not get up this morning.  Alarm went off at 6:00 am.  "Hah!" replied my body, "Not a chance!"  Snoozed a few times and just gave up and reset the alarm for 7:00.  Who am I kidding?  I needed an extra 90 minutes of sleep before I could get up.  To make matters worse, I am still not 100% recovered from my stomach virus.  Still feeling slightly poopy, but not enough to justify a sick day.  Today is going to be a long day.  Probably exactly what I need after my vacation, but at least I know, I'll have no problems going to sleep tonight and probably an easier time getting up tomorrow morning.  Now to decide if I should go to the gym tonight?  Is that asking my poor body too much?

The Caterpillars at Work

During the warmer months, I walk along the path with my friend David. This year we found a lot of different caterpillars.

Shape Ups

I noticed a colleague of mine was wearing Shape Ups today. He's an older gentleman. I mentally LOLed the entire meeting. It's the little things that will help me get through this week.