Feed Me Seymour!

It's been another busy two days! Today I worked a whole 12 hours and had to be at work at 6:30am! Luckily I only have one more day of this and then I'm on vacation for a whole week. Yay! Along with the long hours I have to work at conventions comes a few perks. This show I'm working happened to include a private concert with 80's rock legend Foreign at Mandalay Beach along with a wide spread of food and open bar.

So all day long I was looking forward to a fun night out, came home, put on a cute sundress, was getting ready to go when - ugh, I didn't feel good. So I chugged some of my wanna-be Amazing Grass and laid down. Still didn't feel too good. I have felt like this before and narrowed it down to three things; A. I was just extremely hungry to the point where it had made my stomach upset and lose my appetite to eat, B. it was from those "signature scents" they spray in casinos, or C. I was getting the stomach flu. I was praying for not the stomach flu but the only thing I had a craving for was chicken noodle or miso soup which often is a sign of me getting sick. I had neither in the house. After scouring the kitchen cabinet I finally remembered my mom had frozen some homemade turkey broth when she was here in November. I used the broth and some rice noodles and made myself a little feel better soup.

Diagnosis: HUNGER! Now that I ate I feel 100% better. It's amazing that hunger can make you feel so horrible. I was kind of hungry all day, but there was nothing really of substance to eat so I guess I didn't end up taking in as many calories as I needed. Note to self: repack bag with healthy snacks.

Now for my EATS!

Tuesday morning I didn't really have a breakfast. I just had some coffee and snacked on some Pirate's Booty. Then around lunch time I was starving, of course. I snacked on a handful of these while I was waiting for my Jason's Deli to be delivered.

By the time my lunch got here I was starving and devoured it before even thinking about photos. My lunch was a whole wheat veggie wrap. It was quite tasty. I also had a cup of French onion soup. My sandwich also came with a side of steamed veggies - carrots, broccoli, and cauliflower but I just picked at them.

After work I was having a huge sushi craving. I went to Whole Foods and was slightly disappointed in the evenings selection. I ended up going for a rainbow roll and spicy tuna. It was not as good as the last time I had sushi at Kaizen!

Breakfast this morning was a venti skinny latte and egg white, spinach and feta wrap from Starbucks.

I had that at 7:00am so you can imagine how hungry I was when I finally got lunch at 1;30pm. I missed the free lunch by 5 mins and the food court only had open a yucky burger place so I ended up back at Border Grill ordering my ceviche platter to go.

After work I was hungry but knew I was going to the reception so held off on eating. I thought I was being wise, but ultimately I ended up getting sick!

Wow! What a difference food made. I made this soup from the frozen turkey broth and rice noodles. It hit the spot and I feel so much better now! Clearly my body was just screaming FEED ME!!!

I'm off to bed now, another early tomorrow. :-)

San Diego

A whole week and no blog! Tsk tsk! You can shake a stick at me but, what can I say, I've had a action packed, fun-filled, exciting week! I was actually at home last weekend but without internet and figured I'd update Monday once I got to San Diego but the week has been filled with lots of fun along with lots of work, very little sleep and having a besttie in town. So here's a quick briefing of my week.

I had this as a snack at the airport. I got a lot of weird looks. :-)

My flight was delayed for an hour so I ended up getting this as well. An everything bagel with low-fat veggie spread and  diet Snapple.

Breakfast this week has usually looked something like this... There have been many, many Skinny Vanilla Lattes this week!

Unless it was this mornings, in which case, breakfast looked like this. :-)

Lunches have been a bit of everything. We has Tin Fish one day. Grilled salmon and swordfish tacos. Yum!

There has also been a turkey, bacon, avocado and jack sandwich from the Cheese Shop, a corn dog and yesterdays Thai Chicken salad. I'm not sure what part of this salad exactly was "Thai", but it was good!

Evenings have been jam packed with lots of cocktails. One of my best friends came down from LA so we were out late every night!

We had many skinny margaritas (tequila, soda, and fresh lime juice) and we snacked on these: Chips & guacamole and shared a Surf & Turf burrito at La Puerta.

Following night we had pre-Padres cocktails rooftop at the Marriott.

 Then we actually headed over to the game.

We had these snacks while at the game; peanuts, super nachos, and beer (of course)!

As I've said before, I'll never say everything I eat is 100% healthy. I'm a real person and just try to balance and find moderation in my life. Nachos and beer are basically necessities at ball games. ;-)

To balance out my poorer choices of the week last night I made this delicious salad and headed back to my hotel room early for some much needed sleep.

My salad had a bed of lettuce, green peas, onions, and was topped with several different things. It had some tabouli, fresh tomato & mozzarella,  shrimp & peanut pasta, dill-orzo salad, and marinated cucumbers & feta. This was a delicious $15 salad until about 20 minutes after I finished it and got sick and everything came up. :-( Not sure what it was, but something didn't agree with my tummy.

Anyway, after an action packed week, I finally caught up and got 13 hours of sleep last night! Now I'm headed back over to the convention center for work! Hope you haven't missed me too much while I was gone!