Evening thoughts...

Last night as I was trying (desperately) to fall asleep at 11:57 pm, I wrote to my friend Amy: "I have to go to sleep now to get 10 points, but tomorrow i will use this email to remind me to blog about goddess yoga pose, lions at the beach, children, game on lessons, and random coffee that tastes like koalas. Yes. Koalas."

Then I tried to remember my other thoughts by chanting the name of my office co-worker and "Diet Coke."

Hoo-boy. It's pretty exciting in my head now and then. So I was trying to get to sleep before midnight because on the Game On diet we get 10 points for ditching an old habit - and my old habit is (was) to stay up way late, like til 1:30 am, messing around (chatting with Amy) on my computer... So now I go to bed before midnight. Goodnight, dogs... Goodnight, moon...

Let's see. What else was I thinking about? Oh. I like the goddess yoga pose. It's helpful for falling asleep.


Lions at the beach was about how James and I were hiking along the beach trail and I said, "Dude! How much would it suck to be hiking here and then all of a sudden have a lion that escaped from the zoo just bust out of the woods and eat you up!?!" He paused before answering, "WTF. Where do you come up with these things?" But wouldn't it? Wouldn't it bite to have an escaped lion just break up your afternoon hike? It would. You know it would.

Children... which reminded me of Halloween, and costumes. I've had nooooo time to work on my Dia de los Muertos mask, and the kids still need costumes. This is important. Halloween is of utmost importance. I *must* get to work on a vampire princess, cowboy/bee/tea/batman/spiderman (?) outfit (I don't know about that one - I hope he narrows it down a little before the big night) and a ghoul of some sort. Plus my Dia mask, and if I'm going to go to the Halloween party, I have to come up with a rockstar outfit. Themed. I'm still pondering that.

Game On lessons: 1) I ate too much. Smaller portions are better. 2) I didn't drink enough water. Headaches (without caffeine!) are almost all the way gone! 3) 20 minutes of exercise a day really isn't that bad. 4) I loved my fish tacos and glass of beer tonight, but I think I loved them more because they were eaten with purpose. Yay for meal off night! 5) turning a diet into a fun game is genius and I wish I thought of it. Then I'd be rich. oh, and 6) because of the info on fake sugars, I'm now out of love with Diet Coke and neuro toxins. *sigh*

The part about my co-worker was because she's going to read poems at her alma mater this weekend. And she writes awesome poetry. She's an awesome girl. And then that lead me to thinking about why she doesn't keep a blog, and then that turned into wondering if there are some super intellectual blogs out there that I'm missing (well, not *missing* but like passing by) and then I thought, but why? Why do I wonder about intellectual blogs when there are blogs like The Bloggess who makes me laugh until I can't breathe? Good times.

Which leads me to my final thought last night. The espresso (instant... cheap... previously delicious...) that I was in love with? Hrmph. It tastes like koala. So sad. Like a combination of stale fur, old trunks, and moth balls. That's what Koala smells like. And that's what my coffee tastes like. So I've gone back to tea.

That's all for now. 33 today. It was a good old normal day. Calm. Simple (except for the 4 hours spent on computer crashes...) and just the way I like it. Fish tacos and a glass of The Wise ESB for bday dinner. Tasty. And worth it.

Game On Update and other random stuff...

Today is the end of week one of the Game On Diet, and what a week it's been. I felt like I was detoxing from some terrible thing for the first three days - my body hurt, my eyeballs hurt, I had a headache... And I might have thought it was a flu, but that's where the symptoms ended, and my cohorts (one even in another country) described feeling similarly... So we chalked it up to tiny demons and toxin goblins trying to escape through our brains...

What if that's what all the bad food that people eat on a regular basis actually feels like? I mean, what if that *default* position is what results from the food that we eat every day and never even stop twice to question? Cheetos? Pop? Luckily I wasn't that kind of eater to begin with - although I have stopped drinking Diet Coke (you should see the list of chemicals...) and I sometimes miss my morning cup of coffee (but not too much)... And the biggest benefit has been that the children never even missed a beat - they too, are relatively healthy eaters (our extra parent-weight comes from not paying attention to portions), but they've embraced the fruits and veggies wholeheartedly - and their biggest splurge this weekend was locally made saltwater taffy!

I've discovered some difficulties (ahem) with the eating plan - mainly that I forget to eat when I'm eating nutritious food. Eating is no problem if it's mindless grazing on things like Wheat Thins, those multigrain chips from Costco, sliced swiss cheese... But when I have to sit down and plan out my meals, I often lose points because I forget to eat from all four groups (lean protein, whole grain carb, veggie AND fruit) and then to top it all off, I have to remember to eat every 2 - 4 hours.

*sigh*

I'm doing pretty well on finding exercise for 20 minutes each day - easy to do at the beach when you have two big dogs to walk! Also, except for last night, the new habit of 10 minutes of yoga before bed is kicking in... I've also managed to go to bed every night before midnight for a week. And for the most part, I have been drinking the requisite 3 liters of water per day. It does help to stave off the headache, but I usually get a headache around 3:30 each afternoon. I'm not too happy about that.

I didn't drink enough water this weekend - I think they dug a new well at the beach town where we were, because the water there sucked. It tasted like dirt and moss. It was so bad that even AFTER I boiled water for tea I could still taste it. I never did ask the lady at the market on the corner what was going on... Oh well. I hope it gets better, because it was just awful. We'll have to get a filter for the house!

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, I am trying to get through all of the banners (I have lots. And by lots I mean I'm going to end up with about 25 Halloween banners total) so that I can list them on Etsy and be ready for the Grand Opening at Found that's happening on Saturday the 17th of October...


Kids took a new bus today to school - so they left at 8:15 instead of 8:00... My internal clock this morning is a little messed up. So now, on to daily routine... One meal down - all four groups present and accounted for... Here's hoping I can stick it out another week (or three). But I know I can, because I don't want to let Kate and Amy down!