Yesterday I had a pretty busy work day that started fairly early. So I had my usual cup of coffee and a Luna bar before heading out. At my first stop it turned out that one of the wines I was showing was corked. Since it was the basis of most of the rest of my day, I drove by a grocery store to get a new one. In line I saw the value pack of beef jerkey and thought to myself, "Hmmmmm, lunch on the go?* Perfect!"
So that was the extent of the food I had during the day, some jerkey and a luna bar. I was home around 5:30 and I was STARVING as you might imagine, but I didn't eat because we had been invited out on a friend's sailboat and there was supposed to be food involved. The Hub gets home, we get ready, get to the boat around 7pm. Have a lovely 2 hour cruise and the host whips out a pack of smoked salmon as a snack.** I hate salmon so I was pretty much out of luck as food goes. Since the friend is also a wine vendor, we have a couple of glasses of wine each. Not too bad because the whole "water motion/lack of food/don't want to be too drunk" thing. After the cruise we decide to go out and eat. Oh yeah, and drink more wine. So I finally get dinner around 10ish. By the end of dinner I am feeling pretty tipsy. We got home somewhat past 11 and I pretty much go straight to bed, because I have an 8am meeting (ugh alarm set to go off at 6:15am, what kind of a glutton am I?)
So what's better than waking up at 4am and not being able to go back to sleep? Getting up to do housework. Better than that? Getting ready for work meeting and while brushing teeth, hitting the gag reflex in the back of my throat and spending the next 20 minutes dry heaving. I try to drink water or eat something just to see if it will stay down. No such luck.
And better than 4 hours of sleep, dry heaving and nausea, drive in rush hour traffic to work meeting at 8am? Oh yeah, having 6 different vendors come in and taste us all on their wines. Do I look a little green to you?
*When you drive around in your car all day, unless you have a client to take to lunch you generally miss the middle meal. I was complaining about this to a friend and he suggested I keep some jerkey in the car.
**He just put the smoked salmon on one plate with one fork to break it up with. Everyone ate with their fingers. Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, fishy fingers.
Posted by kerewin at June 24, 2005 06:41 PM