11/09/18, TGIF

Makes total sense!!!! I identified with the last part of the poem: donuts, coffee and cigarettes! Been there, and frankly, if I could smoke and be healthy, I'd probably still do it. There was a certain comfort in the routine of coffee and cigarettes the morning to wake up and in the afternoon as my daily pick me up. Just yesterday I was thinking to myself how funny it is that I drink just a single cup of coffee most days. I really am a poster child of reform...

Weight 172.8

It's so dry and windy here. Thankfully nothing burning in my county, but the one up north in Paradise is heartbreaking to me. It's hard to wrap my head around thousands of structures lost. To get to 70,000 acres in under 24 hours is mind boggling. That's 109 square miles. I read it was consuming 80 acres a minute. How do you outrun that?

On a lighter note, I was looking at my trainer's food and regular activity advice. It all sounds so common sense-y, but that's never easy to do! She's a fan of intermittent fasting, which I naturally do not being a morning person and liking my dinner to be of the early bird special variety. But I can eat badly in just those few hours from 9 to 5. Also she likes low carb, no processed sugar, and no white flour. I'm not sure I can do that all the time. Or that I want to... She also wants me to get 10000 steps a day. I can do that easily in MI, but everything is so compact here, I struggle without a long intentional walk which Fergie can't do anymore. But maybe loading up some podcasts or an audiobook would pass the time.

Anyway, I hope ribs and bruises are mending, babies are growing, mountains are being climbed, farms being worked, dogs being snuggled, clay being shaped, oceans being swum, and exercise and good food abound!

The smoke from the fires is really overwhelming here. The sky is greyed out and the sunshine is orange. I am so terribly thankful we are so very far from the fires, but am amazed by how much smoke there is from a fire that is nearly 100 miles away. One of my students, who is asthmatic, had to go home. He was having difficulty breathing and his mother had yet to bring his inhaler to school. Ugh... poor baby was hunched over trying to breath. Very worrisome. I am hoping for containment. Right now, the Camp Fire is only 5% contained. Not good. I don't know much about the So Cal fire because all coverage here is about the local Nor Cal fire.

On the weight front... sigh... eating very well and instead of down a pound, I went up a pound. Made me sad and I felt a moment of sadness and defeat, but quickly replaced it with positive thoughts of staying the course, which I am doing!

Have to run off to the gym, but wanted to post to say hey to one and all.

Friday, Friday, Friday. Oh how I love getting into bed (hello bed, I've missed you!) knowing I don't have to get up tomorrow morning until I am done sleeping. Oh bliss, oh joy! (I mean I have been seriously tired this week). When I was a teenager, my Dad said I was a recreational sleeper. My hobby continues.