Back to Work

I hope your Independence Day was good and independent!!

June was an interesting month. I had a lot of time off, which is unusual for me at this time of year.  I saw two Def Leppard concerts (#30 and #31!) and my first Keith Urban concert.  He was fantastic, as was Lep!

The second Lep show was in Tampa, and we stayed an extra night to see Keith Urban.  I'm so glad we did.  During the day before the KU show, we visited with a friend of mine, her husband, and two kids.  It was so nice to see them, and I'll get to see them when I go back in August for the oldest boy's bar mitzvah.  Time has flown! I remember when she was in labor at one of my parties with him 13 years ago!!

After Tampa, it was back to work for a week, but we had our divisional meeting, which is food, boredom, more food, and more boredom.  The meeting took 1.5 days and then all the ancillary meetings that go with it when all the field staff are at the headquarters (where I work).

Then, I was off again.  I saw U2 in Miami on June 29 from the nosebleed section at the top of the stadium.  It was a fun and good show.  The concert was supposed to occur last July but got postponed due to Bono's back surgery.  Because a friend was supposed to come into town for the show, I had taken more time off and extended it through the 4th of July (today).  Since his plans had to change, I contemplated not taking the time now, but I decided that it would be a good thing for me to get out of the office for a while, so that's what I did.  I didn't get as much time at the pool as I would have liked due to the weather, but luckily it cleared up over the weekend and I did get some time in.

I cleaned out a few shelves, put away a few things, but basically did nothing else around the house that I should have.  And so it waits.  And wait...and waits...

I did concentrate on Medifast.  I am almost relieved to be going back to work so perhaps I won't be obsessing over what I should do next. I planned my meals for tomorrow and they're all packed and ready to go tomorrow morning.

I went over my calories today, but by just a smidge. I should have asked the girls tonight to put the bread at the other end of the table, but I'm not sure it would have worked anyway since it took quite a while to get our food tonight at Bonefish Grill. I probably would have broken anyway and had a slice of bread. However, I only had ONE slice, which in of itself is pretty cool because in the past I would have just kept eating.

I didn't order the potatoes. I had the grouper, and I asked for as little oil/butter on the fish as possible - just enough to not stick to the grill.  Yeah.  Well.  It tasted too good to be just barely enough to not stick to the grill.  As requested, the broccoli and asparagus came without any of the butter they usually put on it, which was very good.  I asked for the butter sauce on the side, and I think I had about a teaspoon just from dipping my fork tines in the butter and not pouring it over the food (so tempted!).

All-in-all, I think I'm on my way.  Back to work!