June 16, 2008
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Thunderstorm!
I really like thunderstorms. They just fascinate me. I suppose it’s the coolness factor with a hint of fear. We are having one swirl around us in the distance right now. Those storms are why church softball was canceled tonight and why I get to cuddle up to TGD and watch a DVD, The Other Boleyn Girl. I feel like I’ve missed out on a bunch of movies since I was out of the country. Any recommendations?
I took LibbyK to meet her new employer starting in September. She’ll be a mother’s helper for a lady who has some health issues and is expecting a baby. I think that mother’s helper is just about the best job for a young lady. Not only does she get to see how another family works and lives and how another mother manages her home and her children, she gets paid for it!
How about a picture? It’s been a while, eh? This one was taken at Warwick Castle.
Monday Food, not so Good (say it so it rhymes)
Breakfast–Well, I fiddled around and took a walk, so it was 11:00 before I ate breakfast, so I had a baked potato with tomatoes, broccoli, and butter and 16 ounces of light cranberry juice
Lunch–Bowl of Cheese twists, 20 Sugar Babies, 10 Dots
Supper–Five very overcooked fish sticks, leftover macaroni and cheese, carrots, two chocolate chip muffins, and two mugs of hot tea
Snacks–Erm, not sure. A handful of microwave popcorn during my pinochle game with the kids, five Jujufruits (got to finish off the box, you know), and probably something else which has slipped my mind
Exercise–2 mile walk with handweights, lots of laundry folding. I like to fold from the dryer, so each piece I have to do a waist bend thing.
Comments (17)
I was a mother’s helper at age 12 and babysat 6x/wk from age 13-15. I’m very thankful for those times.
I loooove storms. Did you know that lightning is purple? My husband likes to photograph storms…it’s fun.
I liked the look and feel of the Other Boleyn Girl movie, but it chopped some essential historical facts (like how many kids Mary Boleyn had) and it ruined the movie for me. The book is only one step better than smut, lots of who did what with whom.
Great movies that are recent: August Rush, Flyboys, Namesake, The Waterhorse.
Will post food later…dinner got interrupted and I also hope to exercise after the sun goes down. It was too hot this morning.
We had a great storm here too, and we all enjoyed it! Much cooler now…nice.
Monday food..for breakfast, a bowl of cereal and a few chunks of watermelon, lunch was a handful of mini goldfish crackers and a little more watermelon (we kind of get stuck with that when we buy the whole thing!), snacks were apparently not interesting enough to even remember right now, and dinner was veggie fajitas. Exercise was a short walk before dinner.
We had thunderstorms all afternoon- big, booming thunder and crazy lightning flashes… Way too much rain!
i guess those storms weren’t so nice. i heard sirens all afternoon, and i guess there were a couple of fires. our dog didn’t like the storms at all. she was trying to burrow into my leg.
Good movie?
I love thunderstorms, too. Growing up, my room was essentially the attic so my window was right over the porch roof. I used to stick half my body out the window onto the roof during summer storms and just breathe it in.
Monday food – Breakfast: whole wheat bagel, small bowl of strawberries, small glass of OJ; Lunch: turkey, cheese, and triskets, baby carrots; Dinner: cheeseburger pasta, corn on the cob, iced tea, vanilla ice cream with strawberries; Snacks: half a brownie; Exercise: 1 hour walk.
Monday, 16 June, Food Journal.
(Didn’t have the ice cream or the nectarine last night)
Breakfast:
12 oz water, 12 oz hot tea,
2 tbsp wheat germ with milk
Lunch:
1 stick string cheese, 1 cup watermelon cubes, ½ corn on the cob, cheese quesadillas, 12 oz water
Dinner:
Eggplant parmesan, large salad (romaine, spinach, onion, bacon, feta, grape tomatoes, krab, olive oil salad dressing), 3 oz red wine, 24 oz fizzy water, 2 squares dark chocolate. 12 oz water.
Exercise: morning, 10 min walk in 90 degree weather (went home). Evening, 20-25 min power walk. Probably won’t get to pilates before bed, but I do expect to have that scoop of ice cream and nectarine I’ve been craving.
(Hydration: 60 oz)
I think there must be rain everywhere! We had it yesterday and are forecasted to have it all week!
Your diet is quite…..mmmmmmm………….unique. But whatever works!
not getting to post my food diaries. started writing it down on paper so that i could do it when it was finally *my* turn on the computer (our family shares two computers for 5 people – the three girls all like to be on lots of time, mostly with their webkinz site). anyway, i’m behind even on writing it down, as there were/are some very busy not-at-home-much days, which makes it more difficult. my brain was too tired last night to even tackle all my emails, so now i’m 25+ behind on those!! i’m realizing a lot of eating is portion control and self-discipline, which thankfully is not all that difficult for me, unless there are homemade choc chip cookies around (which at our house is 99% of the time!). because i knew i was going to post my food though, i didn’t eat more than one each day. i’ve found it interesting to read others’ posts on their eating. some people (like you!) i wonder how they don’t starve! (like your lunch post above). i need to eat first thing in the morning, and it needs to be substantial. i’m not one of those toast and a glass of juice people, or some similar thing. and i realized again that i’m more of a grazer. one bowl of oatmeal for breakfast will not last me more than 1-1 1/2 hours. i’m just trying to make my “snacking” be more nutritious than a cookie. fruit is good for me, veggies aren’t my favorite. if i get three of my five recommended fruits/veggies during a day, i consider that a positive accomplishment, so i’m working to get it up to 3-4 on a daily basis. maybe some day i’ll get all the way to 5!! thanks though for the challenge and for making my think.
i love the picture you posted. it might be fun to do that one as a puzzle; it would certainly be a challenge!
Warwick sounds like a castle ,too neat photo
you are bound to lose wt. cause you are so good at writting the food and exercise down.
I like thunderstorms too, but not when they rip out two of my favorite trees and force me to spend $200 to get them hauled away.
Though looking back, it could have been much much worse.
A mother’s helper! What a great idea! I hope she enjoys her experience.
I just love your lunch entry. haha Very nutritious, indeed.
We just watched Alvin & the chipmunks last night for the first time– I guess I’m not a good source for recent movies!!! lol
And I absolutely love thunderstorms. We used to watch them on our backporch when I was growing up. I miss having a nice big porch with a roof to do that. Our front porch is so small, the rain blows in & gets everything but a 2′ sq. area wet! We’ve surely been having a lot of thunderstorms this year.
I love thunderstorms too! Perhaps that’s because we are both ENFP’s, what do you think?
Congrat’s LibbyK on the job, you will be FANTASTIC!!!
Weather beautiful here in England today, and check out my blog (still in process) about what we did yesterday,
Blessings,
Lisa
I was laying in bed last night listening to those thunderstorms…it was awesome. It reminds me of how much bigger our God is than anything else! Oh, and I love reading what you eat each day…it makes me feel less guilty…but now I need to be a skinny as you!!! Have a blessed day! Susan (p.s. I was in your neck of the woods on Sunday…we were boating and picnicing at Raystown…so pretty up there!)
I love thunderstorms. I love storms in general. It is the one way I like to enjoy that feeling, whatever it is, that is kind of like fear, but isn’t. I can’t watch scary movies, because they mess with my mind and seriously disturb me. I can’t even take some movies that most people don’t even find scary. I also worry a bit too much and have a collection of fears and phobias. But natural disasters intrigue me for some reason. I told someone yesterday that I thought it would be cool to be in a flood, and to navigate through your neighborhood like it’s venice, onyl instead of a gondola you float on a mattress or piece of wood and use whatever’s handy for a paddle. Doesn’t that sound like a fun adventure? With two conditions–when you’re tired of the adventure, you can blink your house back to normal and still have all your possessions in good shape, and that nobody gets hurt.
Thunderstorms are typically good. Not when they cancel church softball though. We had a really good one yesterday. I videotaped it for 20 minutes.
Okay, here’s Tuesday’s food…are we really doing this until July 4th? Yikes!
Breakfast: a bowl of Kashi crunch cereal
Snacks: Some pita chips (Stacy’s bare naked…yummy!!), some watermelon, a handful of Rice Chex, and probably a few goldfish crackers too, two candy fruit slices
Dinner (yet to be consumed, but cooking away as I type): bowl of tri-colored rotini, probably to be tossed with some olive oil and balsamic vinegar…and maybe another bowl of watermelon.
I’m hoping to get to bed very early tonight…meaning, before snack time. I could use the sleep, and I don’t really need the snacks! We’ll see.