I was outta town.  One of my co-workers scheduled herself to sit at a booth at an expo 80 miles from here and then she had to go to Massachusetts because her dad went into the hospital - so of course on very short notice, I filled in for her.

The expo opened this morning at 7:30 am so I drove up there last night and stayed in a hotel nearby.  I got in way too late to even bother worrying about whether the hotel had a gym, and then had to get up and out of the hotel way too early this morning to even think about it.

I managed to get up and showered, dressed, and packed early enough so I could visit the free breakfast in the lobby - just wanted to see if there was anything there I could eat.  Amazingly, they had eggs and sausage patties, woohoo.  The cinnamon rolls, waffles, pancakes, cereal, oatmeal, danish, donuts, toast, and bagels all looked really good, but I had no trouble walking right past ‘em all.

For lunch I drove down the street to Sonny’s Barbeque and got the salad bar and sliced pork.  I used miniscule amounts of barbeque sauce and filled up my plate with lettuce and broccoli, so I did real well as far as calories and carbs.  But.  About a half hour after I finished eating, I was in major pain.

For the next seven hours, I was doubled over in pain!  When I left the expo I drove home but was in misery, the cramps were so bad.  When I got home I laid down on the couch but that didn’t help.  I finally felt better around 8pm.

I will not describe the digestive results that went with this prolonged pain.  Definitely would be TMI.

I did finally feel hungry and had some dinner around 9pm.  I feel okay now, too.  Still have no idea what brought on the agony I was in earlier but I hope to never experience it again!

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I watched the Biggest Loser finally.  Caught it on YouTube - a horrible recording but better than waiting for NBC to post it next week!  That show always somehow manages to get a tear outta me and this episode was no exception.  I get so caught up in the drama of it all, ha!

BTW, I have regular/cheap/basic cable so I don’t have Tivo or DVR or whatever it is where you can tape your shows.  I still have a VCR hooked up so I suppose I could tape shows with that - but I would rather watch a show online than on TV anyway. 

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