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Can’t Talk… Eating

November 3, 2009 · Filed under Uncategorized · Tagged , ,

It is only day two of the training week.

Maude Have Mercy, it is going to be a long week.

Dry material?  No… the Sahara desert is dry. This material simply doesn’t compare.

Normally if I am out for a week long training or something similar, I don’t fall into the need for copious amounts of caffeine and sugar until Thursday at the least.

But this week – man – Tuesday and I’m already on two cocoas in the day.  Sometimes caffeine and sugar are the only things getting us through.

Also feeling bad because I feel like I’ve been eating crap since Friday (which I have been).

The SB is going home tomorrow AM, and I think once I am on my own, I’ll feel less like this is “vacation” and be able to exercise some self control.

Cake on Sunday, Cheesecake on Monday, Giant cookie tonight.  Chinese food, Deli, etc. etc. Were they all excellent and yummy?  You bet!  But let’s face it – treats are not really supposed to be an everyday event – Four days of crazy eating and I need to go back to something that at least resembles “healthy”

So now off to study some more of this stuff so I can pass the certification test on Friday!

 

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Start Spreadin’ The News…

October 13, 2009 · Filed under Uncategorized · Tagged ,

OK, so I’m not leaving today…  but still.  A plan has been made!  Tickets have been bought!  A hotel has been booked!

As often happens at the end of a fiscal year, careful scrimping, saving and not-spending have left my department with a bit of wiggle room left in the budget.

Enough wiggle room, it appears, for me to take some long-requested training leading to a certification in my field – certification which I will not mention, being as how I try to not put anything on here that might bring company searches this way.

But anyway.  The upside of this is that the training is in NYC. This means that my company is going to be buying me a plane ticket and a week in a hotel up there.

And since that’s going to happen, why not fly up super early on Sunday, instead of late? And since the hotel room will be there and all… why not spend personal $$ on a ticket for the SB who can also sleep in that hotel for no extra cost to anyone.

OK, so it’s not exactly a “vacation” except for the Sunday, but still, the SB will get to do all kinds of things during the day while I am in the training, and we’ll be able to at least go out to dinner in NYC – food capital of the world!!!  (and my dinner will even be expensed! – means separate checks, of course)

So… now the hard part… where to eat?

Gotta have Deli… but Katz’s or Stage?  (Or, heck, Carnegie – never been there!)

Gotta have pizza – think I’ll contact one of our NYC employees to find the “best” place for that (opinions may vary, of course)

I think I’d like to go eat in China Town.

But then, we ARE going to be staying in Chelsea… tons of famous little store-front places there too!  Oh what to do, what to do?

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