Have you ever felt like you were being watched?

Despite my trauma of the day yesterday, things that are bad for my health, I grabbed my insatiable son and walked my 1/2 mile just beyond the Toad Suck water tower. It's a pleasant walk, really, especially as we pass the horses. This time it was a little different. As we neared their field, the horses took notice of us. Have you ever been watched by 5 horses at once, just staring at you for several minutes? It was really weird. *;-.) I HAVE see the movie Barnyard. I know they were just waiting for us to get over the rise, where we couldn't see them.

Things that are bad for my health

I have concluded that a few things are really bad for me health. Today I am thinking about ....car trouble. Now, for normal people, they can deal with car trouble just fine, but for me, I liken it unto normal people waking up in a sleeping bag with a snake wrapped around their left arm.

Car trouble not only causes my stress level to go up, it just about paralyzes me to a non-functional level. Both are very bad for my health, but worst of all, my reaction to car trouble causes me to skip exercising and eat extra chocolate.....

AND

I ate 2 slices of Hormel Turkey Pepperoni while grazing for lunch. Once again, I couldn't tell you what I ate for lunch or for the rest of the day. Amnesia is, once again, proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

So yesterday, the only thing I exercised was my right to nearly melt down over car trouble. And pray lots.

We had missionaries for dinner last night (yum yum). We made tacos and home made vegetarian enchiladas with homemade sauce.

Had lots of taco meat left over so, today for lunch I had taco salad

AND.....

2 slices of Hormel Turkey Pepperoni.

Note to self

• Kudos for keeping it to 2 slices every time now and not a fist full.
• Kudos for recognizing what is bad for your health
• Kudos for actually keeping the chocolate intake to a minimum

Fresh Blueberries and Risking an Encounter with Red Neck Roy

I love fresh blueberries. And it is not hurting my feelings one bit that the grocery store is carrying them right now. Insatiable son and I ate the entire carton on the way home from the store this morning after Seminary. He likes them more than I do, I think. *;-.)

SO, I ran out of time yesterday to do what I wanted for excercise, so I braved the cold AND chanced the possibility of an encounter with Red Neck Roy. I didn't run into Red Neck Roy, but I found his cousin, Red Neck Billy Bob Jay John Jack, who had a 4-wheeler in the back of the battleship-grey spray painted truck.

Man it was cold outside!! The return trip is when the wind is in your face...Brrrrr! I think my legs turned the same color as my pants! What do you think? Possible? On a really cold day? The good news is that I walked FURTHER than I usually do. Okay, it was about 30 feet more (15 feet each way), but still.....actually I usually walk about 1/2 mile because of pampering my left foot. I probably walked....let's say....4.5/8 of a mile..... prolly more. I didn't mark it. *;-.)

After those wonderful blueberries on the drive home this morning, I didn't graze on any of that Hormel Turkey Pepperoni. I knew exactly what I wanted... a small slice of this:



Home baked Cuban Water Bread

Not sure yet what I'm going to do today for exercise. We have piano lessons today..which takes a 2-hour chunk of my day. I think I will do what I said I would do yesterday; kicking some boxing with Kathy Smith and weights will be legs/back/abs....(sighing with contentment.)

Note to self:

• Kudos for walking when you didn't have time for what you really wanted, even though it was REALLY COLD.
• Kudos for not grazing once you got home and going for something that was ready.
• Kudos for actually LIKING legs/back/abs

Crusty Cuban Bread
thanks to Amber Peterson for this recipe couple years ago

4 Cups all purpose floiur
2 cups whole wheat flour
2 TBL dry yeast
2 TBL sugar
2 tsp salt
2 c hot water (120 to 130 degrees)
1 TBL Poppy seeds (or Sesame seeds or none at all)

Mix 3 cups all-purpose flour and 1 cup whole wheat flour with yeast, salt and sugar. Pour in hot water and beat 100 strokes.* Stir in remaining flour until dough is no longer sticky. Knead 8 minutes. Place dough in greased bowl, cover with damp towel. Let rise 15 minutes. Punch down. Divide into 2 pieces. Shape into 2 round loaves; place on baking sheet sprinkled with corn meal. Cut an X- 1/2 inch deep on top with a sharp knife. Brush with water; sprinkle with poppy seeds. Place on middle shelf of cold oven. Place cake pan of hot water on lowest shelf**. Heat oven to 400 degrees. Bake 40-50 minutes or until deep golden brown.
* I do this in my Kitchen Aid Mixer with dough hook.
** Personally, I do not use the pan of water in the oven.

Not risking an encounter with Red Neck Roy

Okay, well, I'm havin' abouta 'nuffa 'dis. I'd better stop cleaning or planning cleaning jobs. I'm gonna close my mom's deep freezer and defrost it in the spring!! Not walking today. Is too cold to be able to dodge Red Neck Roy.


This morning's graze while deciding what to eat for breakfast was something different. I love Ann's House Chocolate Nut Antioxidant. It is full of whole almonds, almond slivers, raisins, craisins, and dark chocolate chunks. Wonderful treat.
I dispensed with the Hormel Turkey Pepperoni graze and went for this. And green grapes. For breakfast, I finally decided on leftover Valentine dinner. So I heated up some large macaroni in juice of Eye Roast and a few thinly sliced pieces of said roast.
I have to say, contrary to Mick Jagger's sentiment, I can get some satisfaction.

Today, I think I will kick some boxing with Kathy Smith. Today is also leg day, back and abs......(shivering with excited anticipation)

Note to self:

• Close mom's freezer door. Toad Suck Glacier is re-forming.
• Self, your shivering is brought on by the cold.
• Self, I don't think so. I really do like leg day and back day
• I think I talk to my "self"
• Do you, or is it just me?

Sunday

I take Sunday off from exercise but since my family was speaking today, my heart rate still got up and I broke a sweat. *;-.)

Breakfast was a bowl of Instant gOatmeal with Maple and pecans and 3 slices of Hormel Pepperoni while I waited for breakfast to be ready.

I usually have a chicken in the crockpot when we get home from church and we have that with mashed potatoes, stuffing, home made gravy with the grease separated off as best as possible, a vegetable and Buddy must have cranberry sauce every time. I now eat only a little of everytihng. I don't want and can't eat so much anymore. Oh, and I ate a small piece of THIS while I waited for lunch to be all ready.

Red Velvet cake with home made Strawberry frosting.

Sometimes Ignorance is Biss

Being as I live in La-La land, I'd had no idea of the accident, nor the opening of the Olympics. So sorry about Nodar. *:-.(

The lives of many people will never be the same.

But since life does go on despite tragedy, and an athlete would not want the games to stop, the Olympics carried on. I will be watching just about everything. Winter Olympics is my favorite.

And so is Hormel Turkey Pepperoni. I have just got to face that fact. I had 3 pieces as I grazed through the fridge, deciding what I was going to eat. Ate a few blueberries and a hand full of grapes before deciding on a cinnamon raisin bagel.

Oooooh, I worked my calves really hard yesterday......

Note to self

• Self, face the fact that you and Turkey Pepperoni have a long term relationship.
• Be sane about it, like you have to in any relationship.
• Kudos for being sane.

Squats are great!

What is she doing? Holding a lunge position while doing bicep curls? That's nuts!

Today was leg day(sigh). I love leg day. I love doing squats; squats with barbells, squats with dumbells, squats with tubes, squats with machines, rear lunges with dumbells... Squats are great. And Deadlifts. Yes, those too.

And back. (sigh) Pull downs with tubes, bent over rows with dumbells...it was good.
Later when I have more time I think I shall do Yoga for Beginners with Rodney Yee.
Downward Dog

Patrick made Chocolate Chocolate Chip muffins made with chocolate milk this morning for breakfast. I took one. They are so rich it takes me 3 hours to eat one.

And I had two slices of Hormel Turkey Pepperoni.
*;-.)