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April 25, 2006
Home At Last
After two days of gak food, I am home at last.
Our convention was a tremendous success, and I had a great time. Hanging out with the nurses and other health care professionals who lead our union is always inspiring and fun for me. But the food was awful, from a CR perspective. Let me entertain you with the details:
Breakfast, day 1:
tray of danishes and tray of fruit
I ate nothing. I can't eat pure sugar that early in the day -- gives me anxiety attacks. I felt it better to fast.
Lunch, day 1:
Chinese themed. There was a salad with decent greens and mandarin oranges. But the food was covered in gaky sauce and/or fried. Eggrolls, fried rice, a beef gaky sauce thing and a chicken gaky sauce thing. I had a bunch of lettuce and put a few bites of chicken in gaky sauce over it.
Cheesecake, and other desserts.
Dinner, day 1:
The cat breath fish.
Cheesecake.
Breakfast, day 2:
This was really tragic. I was at the Executive Board meeting and we were supposed to order breakfast off the menu. I had discussed with our server that I could get an Eggbeater omlette with mushrooms, tomatoes, and green peppers. Fabulous! Almost like home! But the elevator broke, which slowed down the service, which made it impossible for us to order breakfast on time, so we ended up finishing the meeting and then joining the delegates at the larger breakfast buffet. I HAD TO HAVE PROTEIN by this time so I ate some scrambled eggs. Meanwhile, Susan was desperate for a clipboard, so I had to run down to my car to get one after shoving a few eggs into my face. Luke was angelic and grabbed me a glass of water to take my supplements before I had to run out of the room. That guy continues to amaze me with his ability to make my life easier.
Lunch, day 2:
Chicken in cream sauce
Beef in God knows what
MORE CHEESECAKE, and another cake.
Pasta in a cream sauce
Salad -- yea!
Fruit salad, strangely fermented. Yeah, I don't understand it either.
When I came home, after checking on Mom at her house (she's doing well!) I had an extremely happy surprise. MR made my favorite CR-friendly Zoned gourmet pizzas! I was about to fix my quotidian soup when he informed me that he had something else in the oven. I was so happy I almost cried. We just finished our delicious dinner, and I marvel once again at my amazing good fortune to have found a man so wonderful. And so very orange.
Off to pet the screaming calico and then to bed...
Posted by april at April 25, 2006 8:04 PM