Strange Days Indeed

Monday, January 28, 2013

In a much better mental place so far this morning.  We'll see if it can hold for an entire day.

Evening edit:  Most a good day.  Only a minor dip, nothing close to the weekend.  I think I figured out enough to beat it and I also got some minor good news on the work front.  I also had a decent conversation - nothing epic and just a hint of awkwardness at the end (which is just me running out of things to say) - which was definitely helpful.

Breakfast:  ~ 2 oz salami, 2 slices sharp cheddar, coffee

Standard breakfast.  I did not take a picture, rushed through it.

Lunch:  Bowl of vegetable soup.  2 Bubbies dill pickles

At least I remembered to take the picture before I ate too much...

Absolutely nailed this batch of soup.  The only way it could possibly be better (hyperbole alert) would be if I had used stock instead of water.  It is really good though.  Also, I need to learn how to do my own pickles this summer.

Snack:  A bunch of peanuts in the shell.  I'm making a pretty good dent in my huge bag.

Dinner:  Huge bowl of spicy beans and deli turkey.

Magic beans yo

I used up the last of the prior batch and also threw in a bit from the batch that I made yesterday.  Delicious.  And way too much, I am stuffed.  Finished off the crummy turkey so tomorrow (probably) I can get better stuff.  Which reminds me that I should check the ads.

Also:

Exercise:  C25K week 4, day 3.  Same as the last two - 3 min jog, 90 sec walk, 5 min jog, 2.5 min walk, repeat.  Really struggled this morning.  Knees weren't real happy and had some calf soreness too.  Pace was laughably slow at times but I made it.  Barely.  Not looking forward to the increase coming on Wednesday.

The weather did not help.  Ice overnight, the roads were too slick to take the usual route.  There is a 3 block stretch that's clear so I did that loop several times.  Pedometer showed 2.33 miles in 38 minutes.  I've said it before, my "jog" pace is slow, slow, slow but today was extreme.  It's what I had to do to make it through.

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