Courses, Lifts and Life

Courses, Lifts and Life

Well Thursday started at the 6am time again – I had to wear grown up clothes and get out of the house by 7am as I was on a course, so breakfast was a pecan nakd bar in my car….

Despite leaving at 7am I barely made it to the course for 9am due to pants traffic, so all a bit flustered and straight into learning more about remote management – of the geographic rather than emotional remoteness kind.

So the day flew by, and I was trying to do telephone interviews in my lunch hour and answer calls and emails in all my breaks, so lunch was a banana, some pineapple and grapes which I ate whilst interviewing on the phone – all on track to compensate for my meal out on Wednesday night.

Dinner however was at the hotel, and I tried to choose wisely – no starter, a glass of wine and gnocci with artichokes with a side order of broccoli with chilli, no pudding – but being a hotel who knows what else was hidden in the food, we will see at WI I guess. What I didn't do however was eat the bowl of crisps they gave me when I was waiting for my colleagues in the bar before dinner - and they looked very tempting!

I didn’t sleep very well in my hotel bed so Friday started with me feeling a little lack luster, breakfast was on plan, and then by 7.30am I was sat at work doing emails etc before my course started. Brekkie in the hotel was an activia 0% yogurt, then beans, veggie sausage, tomato, lean free range bacon (so the chef told me) and mushrooms all consumed with some tea. No bread just in case I need my HeB to deal with lunch.

I was a bit miffed Friday morning as well, I had to get the lift down to the hotel car park, and I don’t know if I’m alone in thinking this,– and I know I am a little sensitive about my size an all – but, the lift stated it was for a maximum of 8 people, and frankly I was in it with one other person and we were struggling to not touch due to lack of space – 8 people! No way, they are having a laugh? Anyway, next time you are in a lift check out the number it says it is for and see what you think?

So, I did a little more email and then I trundled off to learn the finer details of my management style for remote workers – once I was super duper trained it was 5pm on Friday evening, and to me that signals the weekend, and I am really looking forward to a gym filled extravaganza to make up for the sedentary week I have had with my cold.

Friday night dinner was fajita chicken with peppers and onions, with brown rice. Pudding in the form of a ½ syn jelly cup with a 0 syn vanilla yogurt. And that was that – bit of pottering around at home, then bed and tomorrow is beckoning.

Hope you had a good end of your week, enjoy the week end x

There are some things you just can’t blog about, but, as the plaque says in my mother in laws bathroom – ‘some days are a total waste of make up’!