Hope everyone is doing fantastic. The weather is amazing here, they were right, in the high 70’s, low 80’s. Busy day and now in my room for about an hour before heading back. Great competition and looks like my clients are in sitting in the top 2, with great call outs! I am so proud of each and everyone of them!! Great work girlies! You were the best YOU and presented yourself beautifully! So lesson to be learned…. Packed all my food and was so excited that I had enough veggies to last me through tomorrow. That is usually the problem, plenty of other food but veggies never last. So this time, I made it a point to bring an entire Bag of Organic Green Beans from Costco. I put them in a Huge Tupperware, microwaved them yesterday before I left, put the lid on it and took them to go. I was so excited, finally I knew I had enough to last…Got to the room, opened the HUGE Tupperware of my green beans and weird… they are all slimy and just don’t taste right?? For me to say that means they are pretty bad. I am afraid to eat them, literally, so there goes my “well planned out”, so I thought, veggies. See, you think you are prepared and things can always come up. Have to grab something on the go… Flexible, seems to be a common word these days! Where there is a hungry girl needing her veggies, there is a way… 😉
So busy day but successful one, indeed. Heading back in an hour for the finals.
I have forgotten to mention, I ended up getting the job for MTV’s MADE.. BUT before you get too excited, I had to turn it down. They were going to require me to leave for 7 weeks, starting next week, and with very very limited pay so after looking at the big picture and being realistic, it just wasn’t going to work! I know sounds kind of crazy but if you knew more of the hard facts and details, you would have agreed… Trust me on that one!! Seemed like a great opportunity, for sure, and definitely very rewarding but when looking at ALL the details of the 7 week commitment, things just weren’t going to work. Opportunities come but you have to be realistic and look at absolutely everything that will be affected, in all areas of your life, decide on what you want, weigh out pro’s and con’s and go with your heart. That is exactly what I did and the conclusion I came up with was that it was not for me, at this time…
Just wanted to keep you posted and fill you in!!
Hope everyone is enjoying their memorial day weekend, wherever you may be! Off to rest for a few and head back.
Tomorrow is an off day for me so until Monday everyone! ENJOY, LIVE, LAUGH, MAKE HEALTHY DECISIONS, SMILE PRETTY AND BE YOU!!
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I’m not surprised at all that they offered you the job! I can definitely see why you turned it down. That’s a huge commitment!! Glad to see you’re still being true to your word and BALANCE, BALANCE, BALANCE! You are awesome Gina! Congrats! Both for the offer and your decision to not take it! Glad your clients are doing well. I was eating my perfectly steamed farmers market yellow and green beans when I read this and thought that if I knew I could have delivered some to you! 😉 Have a good rest of your weekend and look forward to your post Monday! Cheers!
Congrats still on the offer Gina! Glad that you went with your heart and were able to do things with the bigger picture in mind! Interested to see who they will choose now! And congrats as well to your ladies in the show, can’t wait to hear how things went over at the night show!
Too funny about the green beans… I am going to Disneyland on Friday and have picked out a few of your recipes to plan to bring everything with me. I know what you mean about something always going wrong, I feel like that happens to me too whenever I go somewhere! My fingers are crossed that I will get through it fine though!!
Thanks for the updates while you are away!
Rach, It did take lots of thought but I did, I went with my heart and gut! the fact that I was questioning it or getting an anxious feeling, just thinking about it, wasn’t right… Literally went with the gut! Hope you had fun in Disneyland and I know you got through it just fine, healthy recipes at hand! Which did you make? 🙂
I’ll be going this coming Friday… planning on making the sweet & sour turkey balls and some variation of protein muffins/balls. Any kind of finger food, really so I can just eat on the go!! Thanks for all the great tips!
Oh this friday!! Oh yes the turkey balls and the protein muffins/pancakes will workout perfect! Easy finger food and perfect to throw in your purse for the day! It is just crazy how unhealthy and most of all expensive amusement park food is! Great job on planning in advance! How fun!! 🙂
Thanks Gina! I love Disneyland and it’s really great that I have this site to help me be more creative in the kitchen and help with my goals!!
On another note… I wasn’t sure where to post this but when I use the search function (looking for more recipes) the titles are clickable but don’t show up… I have to read the tags or highlight to see what I’m clicking. Maybe it’s just me, but wanted to give you a head’s up!! 🙂
Glad to be able to help! Thanks for letting me know about this and you are absolutely right. I have forwarded this onto my webmaster so he can look into it! I will keep you posted! 🙂