Winning Friends with Salad

I had such incredible trouble sleeping last night. Even though I was tired, I just couldn’t fall asleep - I couldn’t turn my brain off! I was tossing and turning until almost 3 AM, catching only a few minutes of sleep here and there. My alarm went off at 7 AM, and I decided to just bear through and get up. I read an article about getting better sleep (ironically right before I went to bed last night - maybe I psyched myself out) and it said that even if you’ve slept badly, you should still get up at the same time. I started to get ready for the gym, but I didn’t get too far - I didn’t have any clean gym clothes! Boo, poor planning Kate! When I thought I was going to the gym, I woke myself up with what I thought would be a pre-workout snack:

I decided to make the best of it and spent a leisurely morning getting ready for the day. I showered, took time to sit down and apply moisturizer, made my lunch for the day, checked my email, looked at the newly posted syllabus for my writing class (which starts tonight) and…made eggs!

Talk about making things happen. I grilled up 2 eggs and an egg’s worth of egg whites, and threw some whole wheat bread and a slice of 2% American in a baggie. At work, I toasted the bread and threw the eggs and cheese in the microwave for 45 sec. Combined, and voila! Egg sandwich at work:

Served with a banana.

And iced coffee:

I really have to crack down this morning and make some serious headway on my writing. I’m going to turn off my email and maybe even the blog (tear*). I have a meeting with Keri at 1:30 PM this afternoon, and I realized this morning I can’t stay late at work tonight to finish things up because I have to go to my writing class tonight at 6:45 PM. Yikes. Better get crackin’ - see you for lunch!

PS. I’m sorry I haven’t had time to respond to comments, but I am reading them and really appreciate you all chiming in!  I’ll respond in the next day or so.