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Tuesday, August 19, 2003

I have earned a moment's repose...

Music: Loreena McKennitt, "The Lady of Shalott"

Mood: better than it was!

I have just finished catching up on dishes and sweeping and mopping the kitchen floor and now I have actually earned the right to sit here and type guilt-free. :) I made a pretty good dinner tonight, only 650 calories a plate: chicken breasts grilled on the barbecue with Pappy's and barbecue sauce, a caesar salad, and mashed potatoes with gravy (I cheated and used a gravy packet; with no drippings it's just so much nicer that way). The highest calorie contributor was the mashed potatoes. Even so, I ate 650 calories and I actually feel full. Like, I should have even stopped a few bites sooner. Is this what it's like for normal people? I had always thought I was the normal one, being basically an appetite on legs. I always thought people who ate small portions were either torturing themselves or putting on an act. But maybe there's hope for me to change my habits on a lifelong basis.

I was so darn crabby this afternoon. It was a combination of several factors: the literal pain in my neck, the lack of sleep last night, and my wonderfully bouncy exuberant children who really need to learn how to behave in the grocery store. They can be behaving totally normally in the car and then we go in the store and they're running and bouncing and hopping and yelling and picking each other up. Every time we go there I have to ride herd on them really hard. T says they do not do this with him. I think (and he agrees) that going to the store with Mommy is a bore, but going with Daddy is a treat because it's so rare. They haven't gotten spankings in quite a while, both being old enough to understand having privileges removed instead. But maybe a firm swat where it will do the most good would serve better than telling them, "you guys are going to be sorry when you get home and you want to do X"; perhaps home is just too far away for their hyperactive little brains to worry about.



No swimming tonight on account of my shoulder. I am trying to muster up the energy for a walk; I know I'd love it once I was doing it but I just can't bear the thought of it right now. I am enjoying being sedentary too darn much. Maybe if I get a good night's sleep tonight I'll go out first thing in the morning while T gets ready for work. Morning is even better than evening for walking. Besides, I did just burn 150 calories mopping. ;-) I think I'll settle for a nice game of computer Scrabble instead. By the way, if anyone has Scrabble 2.0 (that's the one they were giving away in cereal boxes for a while recently) and would like to help me figure out how to play a game together, I'm, er, game! :) Drop me a note and we'll set it up.

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