Eating my heart out Friday

I woke up this morning to the terrible news about the crisis in Japan. In between my meetings and highest priority meetings today, I spent much of the day trying to track down my family and friends in Japan and gathering information through Twitter and Google.

Stress makes me eat.

This was my lunch from the cafeteria:

By dinner time, I had gotten confirmation that most of my friends and family were fine. I met up with my friend for dinner at Little Owl, a cute restaurant in Greenwich Village. It's difficult to get reservations there, so we were psyched. This is what we ordered:

• bibb & beets -- salad with yellow beets garnished with pumpkin seeds
  
• gravy meatball sliders
• grilled arctic char
• side of mushrooms and asparagus
• apple crisp with ice cream

We closed the night with lattes at Cafe Angelique. Too bad we were too full for another dessert! Cafe Angelique has delicious sweets to much on.

I walked home thinking how lucky I am to be able to live a life like this in New York City.

Visit the American Red Cross website to make donations to support the victims of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan.