A better day

What a difference a day can make! Dave brought me flowers, but the day continued to be annoying. One annoying thing that worked out much to my benefit was trying to turn in that grant application. I couldn't find where to turn it in, so I went to the place where the department was housed--the Miller building at the bottom of campus, next door to my building. Nope. I had to turn it in to the committee chair who works in...drum roll....FACILITIES MANAGEMENT! Are you kidding??? FM is is at the extreme opposite end of campus well above the stadium!! Weber State is built on a mountainside--it gives real meaning to the phrase, "it's up there."  There was nothing for it but to take a deep breath and dash up the mountain as fast as I could.  I made it in time, but without the letter from my supervisor, I had to hope that she'd get it to me and that they'd let me add it to the packet. This was all definitely the 1/2 hour of exercise I had missed on wellness time.

Bless her heart--she gave it to me first thing this morning. I made the mandatory 17 copies (not kidding, don't ask), and went charging back up the hill. I made it---my stuff was still in his in-box, so I slipped in the letters. Phew, in every sense of the word.

Meanwhile, food was pretty good yesterday--pecan day is one of the better flavor point days. I really liked the chicken.  Today is 1700 and I'm struggling a bit--but I had a poptart for breakfast and that atones for a lot. The problem today is the actual counting--I guesstimated that my lunch (enchilada and corn) was about 500 cal. Okay. Well, it's gradfest and they gave us all $5 lunch vouchers and it's taco tuesday. People have been raving about the street tacos for ages. I got two and some beans and I'm guessing it's about 600 cal? Not impressed with the tacos.  They were plentiful enough and with the beans they should have been filling, but I'm not really full today. I still have 1/2 a muffin and some celery to nibble on, but I'm at work till 6 and am going straight to a meeting after that. Dinner is also a little hard to estimate--himmel and erde--potatoes, turkey sausage, apples and onions. Very healthy and filling, but difficult to dish out exactly 1/5 of the pan or whatever. Oh well, my best will have to do. I'm proud of myself for saying no to all the goodies that are all around me today. I'm also hoping to put in another 40 min of exercise. I need to collect calories---our book club will be meeting soon, and there's going to be office treats (not a full blown pot luck thank goodness), for the April birthdays and Catherine's graduation, all of which are going to involve food that I don't want to say no to. Not to mention Friday night pizza nights. I'm going to need to work hard!