It’s Monday morning and I feel like I’ve been off work for a week, not just the two day weekend. That’s a nice feeling though, not complaining! It was much nicer out this weekend than was predicted and we took full advantage!
Friday night to celebrate the exam being over and passed, we went out for a nice dinner with Ray’s daughter and her husband. I had an Ahi tuna sandwich but wrapped in lettuce instead of bread, slathered in red pepper relish and guacamole, it was amazing! Being toast from the week and month previous, I went to bed with Grace almost as soon as we got home from dinner and slept until 9 the next morning.
Saturday morning I left the comfort of the bed and had a bath in the main bathroom while Ray was showering in the en suite. And when I got out of the bath, this is what I found:
She’d kicked all the blankets onto the floor and made herself at home Right. On. My. Pillow. Frigging spoiled dog! No shame, either!
Saturday we ran a tonne of errands including jewelry repair, knife sharpening (they sharpened my knife for free…..after I paid $145 for a new chef’s chopping knife to go with the slicing one I already had!), tea purchasing and dirt buying.
Ray decided that Sunday morning he should get me up earlier so that we would have more day to work with….in theory I agreed with that, but the actual practice of it sucked so he bribed me with breakfast out. Works every time! After breakfast we headed home under sunny skies and Ray went and washed the back deck while I spent three hours weeding my front garden. Three hours….a third of the garden done. I called it quits and we took our dog and walked 3km up to McDonald’s for smoothies. I realize that while McD calls them Real Fruit Smoothies, they are probably more crap than fruit….but it’s a nice treat! Hoofed it back home to find Ray’s daughter had stopped by with her puppy and wanted to go for a walk. Since Ray’s son was already there the four of us headed out into the park and ended up walking another 4km. Our dog was pooped by the end of the day….as was I! 3 hours of gardening plus 7km of walking, done for the day!
Ray with our dog, our grand-dog, his daughter and son.
This week is supposed to be gorgeous and our plan is to insure my motorcycle, go for a couple evening refresher rides on Tuesday & Wednesday so that on Thursday and Friday when the weather is extra gorgeous, I can ride my bike to work! Ideally I would like to ride my motorcycle to work at least two days a week through this season, weather permitting. It’s cheaper on fuel and much more fun than my car! The only sucky part is having to pack with me a change of clothes for work as well as bundling up for the morning and then finding somewhere to put all those layers for the warm ride home. Sometimes it feels like more of a pain in the ass than it’s worth!
Anyway, since I try to balance healthy with reality, I need to put the focus back on the “healthy aspect” this month. It’s not that long until summer when everything gets derailed in favour of sitting on the patio with a cold beverage. Studying and the stress that came with that is gone now so from now until June my focus is going to be on my fitness and overall health (good sleep, vitamins, hydration). Ray is going to be gone for a week out of the month and there’s a long weekend coming up and I have some huge plans for that week/weekend, yardwork related. I’ll have the pickup truck, no one to cook for and no one to tell me they don’t like my yard renovation ideas so I’m going to go gangbusters! Can’t wait! Were there a certain family member who reads this blog who wanted to come out on May 18th and get some good, natural exercise digging, raking, pulling, pruning and shoveling, in exchange for some sort of lunch or dinner, that would be great! Hint-hint-hint 😉
That’s it for me today, it’s a Monday, I’d rather be home digging in the dirt than sitting at a desk indoors……..so I’ll dig when I get home, dinner is made and in the fridge marinating, just has to be pan fried!
Fitty vs Fatty 