Oat Fail

Ugh, this morning I tried to make instant oatmeal at the hotel to bring with me to work, but it was actually almost inedible.  Partly because it wasn't so warm anymore by the time I ate it, and partly because I managed to put in too much water, despite being convinced that it was not nearly enough.  Just bad news.  Luckily, though, the Executive Lounge had little containers of peanut butter, which certainly made the oatmeal better, but definitely not good.  Oatmeal fail.

I've tried lots of breakfast solutions and have yet to come up with a good one.  I've made oatmeal at the hotel: obvious fail.  I've bought coffee and oatmeal at Whole Foods: tastes the best but usually cold by the time I get to work.  I've bought coffee and oatmeal at Starbucks: the coffee is so blech there and the oatmeal is like ultra-instant, if that exists.  And breakfast at the hotel is seriously lacking in oats.  I suppose [sigh] that I could go oat-less once in a while.  They have hard boiled eggs and a good fruit salad (and bananas today!!!), so I can try to make it work.  Suggestions?  Oh, I think I should also check out the cafeteria at work.  Despite it being my least favorite place to eat in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex, it's possible that they have oatmeal, or at least hot water for instant.  So much research to do!

I brought this instant oatmeal packet from home, and a Larabar for snack today before my Tuesday ritual: the Whole Foods run.

The salad bar at work must have heard my cries of despair, because it has been so well-stocked lately!  The lettuce has been fresh, and the veggies plentiful.  What more could a girl want?  Never mind, I could think of about 8,000 things I want more than a fibrous lunch.  Top of my wish list is a French press.  Not totally sure why.

Anyway, here are some lovely photos of this week's room.  Back in the nice part of the hotel, in a corner room "junior suite".  What does the junior suite award me?  Why, take a peek!  I get...

...an extra 5 square feet!  And...

...a bathroom rug IN ADDITION to a bathmat.  Baller?  Baller, indeed.  And...

...a robe.  Yay?  Like I would ever put that thing on.  Ick, who knows if they wash it!

Thank you, junior suite!  What a treat.  I can only hope to one day find out what the senior suite is like.

Tonight's dinner was, of course, from Whole Foods.  I got my usual weirdo mish-mash of wonderfulness.  Veggie soup, which I totally scarfed before a photo could happen.

A lovely oddball salad of spinach, roasted carrots, BBQ tofu, sauteed string beans, some sliced turkey, and the feature ingredient...

KALE!  It was a little lemony and spicy.  Yum.

Every week I think, maybe I should go somewhere that isn't Whole Foods?  And every week I'm glad I didn't.  So great :)  Off to bed so I can wake up in the pitch black morning to work out.  Sad story.  When is daylight savings coming?!?!?!