Diet Stuff

Breakfast: 1/2 of a GIANT Chef Salad from The Brown Bag Cafe in Kirkland.
Lunch: Pork Sauage
Dinner: BBQ Chicky-cheese Porkchop Burger

Gym: 2.3 Miles, 6.9 miles total

Clean: 45/15 x1

Yesterday, the driver-side window in our van went KUHTHUNK and so back to the Garage with it o they could re-fix the window that they had fixed last year. This ate up my entire day up till past NOON, which ended up being okay because I got to go have the most incredible Chef Salad at the Brown Bag Cafe while I waited! They roast their own turkey, they boil their own eggs, the ham come from a local farm, and the salad greens are full of surprises like the freshest broccoli I've ever tasted! An EXCELLENT breakfast :)

Despite having the first half of my day consumed by trying to eat that salad, I was still able to make it to the gym for my longest work-out yet AND a super-long cleaning session (45 minutes) where I was able to unf*ck our kitchen sink which had been PILED HIGH with dishes and pots and pans, neglected since Friday night.

For dinner, I BBQed. Never wanting to waste charcoal, I grilled up plenty of food including cheeseburgers, chicken legs and pork chops. I had one of each :)

"The best time to plant a tree was ten years ago. Second best time to plant a tree is RIGHT NOW."

To Do List

Take Molly to school
Call allergist to reschedule shots
Get allergy shots (Not possible today, will do on Thursday in Bellevue)
Eat breakfast
Do a 20/10 in the Kitchen
Update the Saturday Morning blog
Get cash
Pay Storage Unit
Buy kiddie pool
Call garage to make sure Mini Van is ready to pick up (it is ready)
Make lunch for Crystal (portable)
Get Mini Van
Take Crystal back to work
Glean (optional, didn't make it in time)
Figure out dinner
Eat lunch
Price lawn mowers ($200 OUCH!)
Mow lawn
Assemble/inflate/fill Kiddie Pool
Do another 20/10, probably vacuum
Get to the gym for an hour
Cook Dinner
Watch 2-part finale of Merlin
Brush teeth
Go to bed

If I do an average of two tasks per hour today, I can do it!

With Age Comes Wisdom And Naivety

"Old Age" is trying to strike a perfect balance between "Well WE did that ALL THE TIME when WE were kids, and we all turned out just FINE" and "Oh no... ANOTHER of my friends has Cancer / had another Heart Attack".

Filling up the little pool we got for Molly today, and I was tempted to drink from the hose but then remembered something about the sunshine heating the hose and releasing some sort of evil carcinogen or other poison, but then I thought "Well we did it all the time when I was a kid and we all turned out just fine!" followed by "Whoa... maybe that's one of the reasons people get Cancer?"

Need to strike a balance between informed and bull-headed, I guess...