What happened to my cheery, happy food blog?!  I promise I am still here some where.  I got into work today and lets just say…it is making last week look pretty.  I want to cry, but I really don’t think that is professional.  I have already been asked once to cancel my trip. Not happening, and they didn’t really expect me to.  It does look like I may fly home and head up to Ohio nearly immediately.  I really don’t want to and I am hoping that won’t happen.  If I don’t book my trip before I leave then that means I’ll get at least one day in my office before leaving for Ohio.

Oh, I did update the missing photos from Sunday’s post.

I am attempting to get this post out while I wait for a report to run.  I am really upset…I was supposed to go to a wine and cheese party over at Missy’s tonight and I just don’t think will happen.  Today is just looking like a repeat of last week’s late nights.  It almost makes me nauseous just thinking about the negative impact my work is having on my life.  Justin is amazing (and in a similar situation) so he can handle it just fine, but the fact it hurts my friendships really is starting to make me very mad.

Dinner
I decided to make Justin a real dinner last night.  Our eating habits have definitely taken a turn for the worse with how busy we are.  And then he had to take me to the hospital, etc yesterday…I just hate that I negatively effect him sometimes.  He tells me to stop talking when I say things like that…that I am not negatively effecting him, that this is called marriage.  I just feel like I do all the taking and he does all the giving.   I figured a tasty dinner would at least a step in the right direction to say thank you.

I made him a cheeseburger with french fries and broccoli (figured I needed to force him to eat his vegetables while I am still in the country….who knows how he’ll eat while i’m gone. )

The fries are just a potato with a bit of olive oil, cumin, red pepper, s&p all sprinkled on top of the sliced potato.  I cooked the slices for 30 minutes at 400 degrees.  They probably could have been cooked at a high temp.

Just plain steamed broccoli.

The burger is about 1/3lb of 90% lean ground beef.  I cooked up 2 pieces of 33% lower sodium of bacon, crumbled those into the beef with some cheddar cheese and spices/Worcestershire sauce and then just pan cooked it (same pan as the bacon was cooked in)

Topped with some mayo, lettuce and tomato all on a sprouted wheat bun.  He said it was heaven.

I did not want anything nearly this heavy, so I went with a 2% Fage topped with all sorts of goodness—Oh’s, Cracklin’ Oat bran and some raisins

all stirred up

And I did have the last hunk of brownie for dessert.  These things lasted 9 days in our house…I thought that was pretty impressive!

Breakfast
I was running late this morning (aren’t I always running late?) so I had to eat in the car.  2 waffles with a smear of PB and a smear of jelly.

Lunch
This is the end of my whole wheat pitas and I have to say, I’m kind of glad.  They got boring.  I like bread more than pitas.  This was a half a whole wheat pita with a slice of sierra turkey, spinach, tomato and a drizzle of all natural honey mustard dressing.

and a cup of Wegman’s Italian Wedding soup on the side.  When did weggie’s start making soup!?!!  And they are only $0.99 a can!  I am thrilled!

Snacks
An orange, the rest of my cottage cheese that is going to go bad today, so hence the massive amount, and some baby carrots.

Who knows how my day will go.  Happy Fat Tuesday to you guys!  It is already 1:30 and I haven’t looked up from my cpu for more than a brief second. If you are getting to go outside and enjoy the sunlight, please enjoy it for me too today!

Japan–T minus 4 days.