Picture Day! 1/15/12

Hello! Back home for a brief stay in the KY then headed to Dallas on Thursday! And then Manhattan the following weekend! Shoo! This month is definitely out of whack but I’m still pretty happy with the outcome of the first trip…

Things didn’t go quite as planned, my traveling partner forgot to pack her gym shoes so we didn’t do any classes while down there but the hotel gym was VERY well-equipped so I got a full workout in on Thursday! I didn’t get a chance to workout Friday or Saturday, there just wasn’t enough time in the day… and I may have had a couple of cocktails in there which inhibited my normal 4:30am wakeup call lol. J

Brief recap – Thursday – flew out of Cincinnati at 7:10am and arrived in ATL around 8:30am… went to the hotel and dropped our bags then headed over to the merchandise mart to set up our booth. Set-up took about 3 hours (involving lifting boxes/hanging garments/throw blankets/moving tables, etc). After set-up, I went and worked out, I did my upper body circuit and it was GREAT! Then I took a shower and got dressed then we went to dinner at a Mexican restaurant then to a bar.

Thurs Food: Granola w/ soy milk for breakfast, 1 ½ airplane cookies on the flight (only option?!) a banana before booth set-up, dry granola in the hotel room and some chips and guac and veggie tacos at the restaurant. I drank a lot of water throughout the night so I didn’t over-do it on the booze.

Friday – show time! We worked the show then went back to the hotel, changed and headed to dinner then to a bar.

Fri Food: Fruit cup and banana for breakfast, veggie sandwich on WW bread and apple for lunch and sushi/garlic snap peas/edamame/kimchee cucumber salad for dinner…we went to this great Asian restaurant and shared a bunch of food! It was really delicious and all seemed pretty healthy! I did have a little too much to drink this night but I didn’t completely over-do it!

Saturday – woke up and packed my stuff, headed to the shows for a few hours then headed to the airport to fly home! Arrived home and then went to dinner with my little family.

Sat Food: ½ fruit cup and tall vanilla soy latte for breakfast, banana for lunch, snacked on fruit & nut trail mix and hummus & pretzels at the airport then ginger salad/sushi/rice and a few veggies for dinner (we went to a Hibachi restaurant)

Sunday – Lazy day! I spent a lot of time just hanging out with miss Nora, went to the grocery store then cooked a big dinner! Branden requested Manicotti so I made spinach manicotti, cesar salad and had some yummy garlic bread… obviously I couldn’t eat the manicotti or cesar salad but the others seemed to enjoy. J

Sun food: Granola w/ soy milk for breakfast, a few chips and salsa, grilled peanut butter and banana sandwich, veggie sandwich from Subway then some garlic bread and ½ stuffed grape leaves flatbread wrap. The food timing was all over the place yesterday lol.

I didn’t go to the gym this morning.. my lower back has been hurting a lot the last couple of days and I didn’t get much sleep last night. I do intend to go to bellydance tonight though so I should certainly burn a few calories!

Food Today:

Breakfast:

½ c granola w/ soy milk and blueberries

Fresh fruit and veggie juice

Snack:

Oatmeal w/ raisins, blackberries and cinnamon

Lunch:

Veggie chili (my mom’s version this time!)

Snack:

Leftover ½ of the stuffed grape leaves flatbread from last night and an apple

Dinner:

TBD – Some ginger/garlic green beans and some other veggies probably…

Well, yesterday was picture day but our home computer is currently on the fritz so I had to wait until today to post! I am really surprised and happy with the picture this month! After the holidays and the crazy schedule that I’ve had since, I honestly wasn’t expecting much! Anyway, I’m pretty stoked – what do you think?

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That’s about all I have for today! Thanks for reading and keeping up with me, I really appreciate it! I hope you all had a great weekend and Happy MLKjr Day!!

Until tomorrow…