Friday Five – Improvisation

There’s no Friday Five today. But since I’m on a blog roll (and some blogrolls, too!) I’m going to freestyle 5 points for your reading pleasure.

1. I’m on a semblance of a diet again. I’m on the upper cusp of my 35 (!!) pound swing. So I’m going to try to cut it down. I’m doing this by:

   Walking more. Without the dogs. My dogs are wonderful, but they’re not cardio dogs. They are “stop and sniff the tree trunks” dogs. So twice this week I took a 40 minute walk. My body hates me. I should start at 20, but I have a rotten sense of time and direction. I walk away from the apartment further than I should, and it takes forever to walk back.

   Eating less. Duh, right? I’m not tracking points, and I’m mildly tracking calorie intake. But I’m making huge tomato/cucumber/onion salads (I hate lettuce) and eating a big bowl of that with a smaller main meal. The idea of tomatoes, cucumbers, onions with red vinegar and a sprinkin’ of basil repulses WM. So I’ve taking to calling it “Stank Salad.”

2. Tomorrow I’m going to the Collingswood Farmer’s Market early for more Stank Salad ingredients. Then we’re off to the Collingswood Arts & Crafts festival, so I can oogle the handmade jewelry made by all the other late-30s (siiiiigh) women in the Northeast. Then I’ll go home and cry into my beads.

3. Sunday’s a birthday party for my cousin’s kid (first cousin once removed?) She’s getting a Hollister gift card. I got a top and 2 pair of earrings from Charlotte Russe, all for $15.98. Not my first choice of store, but the clearance signs were too much for me to resist.

4. I’m taking Monday off from work to flee to the shore with Mom. Hopefully I’ll escape the curse that causes it to rain profusely on days that I take off. I apologize in advance for any of you in South Jersey who has their Monday ruined by rain.

5. And for my stupid baking trick this weekend, I may try to bake an apple pie from scratch. I know that sounds like it flies in the face of “eating less” but once I’m done the process of baking, I’ve no interest in the final product.

Whoa…that was painless! And published EXACTLY AT 5:55pm. I’m that darn good. (yay for pre-scheduling posts!)