Holiday Challenge Progress Report - Day 3

Libby's Progress Report - Day 3
"Why is everything fighting me!!!"

Friday was apparently payback day for all of the inanimate objects I have ever cursed. It was my friend's 50th birthday, and along with her mom, her hubby and her sister, I was putting on a big party for her at the local Elks Club, which is the only gathering space there is in my town.

I was responsible for the "life in pictures" show, which I have been working on for a week. This was the big suprise and was supposed to be the highlight of the evening - the part where everyone watches together and oohs and aaahs and the birthday girl is so happy she cries and everyone hugs and smiles.

I knew up front it would be a busy day, so I ate a breakfast that would keep me going for a few hours:

Breakfast:
Steel cut oats
Banana
Clementine

Lunch wasn't too bad either.

Lunch:
Green salad
More cauliflower soup
Cashews

Then all heck broke loose. We needed one of those machines that would project the picture show on the wall. The guy who I thought was bringing one for us to use didn't bring it, and so at 3:30 I was left to find one in my small town. The local rental shop had one but wanted $200 to rent it for one night! My hubby and a friend of his sprang into action and tried every combination of computer and television and cable that they could come up with, but couldn't get anything to work. (They are both IT guys, we just didn't have the right cables.)

Luckily, at 4:45 we found out that the electronics store in town just happened to have a used machine that we could rent for $100. We ran down and got it, took it to the Elks, set everything up, and breathed a collective sigh of relief when the show was up and running at 5:30. We finished setting up, then ran off to grab a quick bite at the restaurant before the party.

By now, my nerves were jangled from all the last minute hustling. Hubby asked me to have a glass of wine, and I obliged. Then we shared this for dinner:

Dinner:
Green salad (I ate this, he had soup)
Baked potato
Small piece of grilled mahi - I had a couple of ounces
The afforementioned glass of merlot

With 10 minutes to spare we headed back to the party. And guess what? The projector wouldn't turn on! We worked on it for about a half an hour while people filled the room, and everyone was watching us and talking about how we couldn't make it work and trying to give us advice.

Meantime, I have one very disappointed birthday girl, and also a disappointed birthday girl mother and birthday girl husband.

We never did get the darn thing to work. People just sat down two at a time and watched the show on my laptop computer.

I sat in the corner and drank two bottles of Mike's hard lemonade and ate:
A little smokie (which tasted very strange)
Some raw veggies with ranch dip
Some crackers with cheese and summer sausage (which also tasted strange)
Two bites of bad white cake with lemon filling.

(I did redeem myself later in the evening by getting some great shots of the birthday girl with her family, and of her blowing out all 50 candles on the cake, which she *almost* did in one breath!)

Verdict:
No exercise
Good breakfast
Good lunch
Bad rest of the day

I'm calling it a Potato
Tab: $5