Sloth

I didn’t run on Turkey Day. I had too much cooking to do and I thought I was going to have an hour or two while the baking was going on, but it turned out that all the “fixins” took up all that time.

I don’t cook a whole turkey because none of us like the dark meat anyway, so we just buy the breast. (Why do I think that I’m going to get really odd search hits now?) Ofcourse, it costs alot more, which is annoying, but I calculated once that it was the same amount of money spent per pound if we ate only the white meat.

Also, I bake it in a Pampered Chef stone pot thing. It bakes differently than a metal pan so the times are always off. And viewing the pop-up thingy is really a pain so I use my digital thermometer to watch the temp.

My point of all this to say that the turkey breast cooks alot faster than the whole turkey, and even faster than it says on the package. If I had actually gone running when I thought I had time, the turkey would have been done 15 minutes into my run. So that’s my excuse for not running on Turkey Day.

Yesterday, I was damn tired from all the cooking on Turkey Day. My son has come down with Pink Eye, although it doesn’t look as disgusting as that picture. So I spent all night after cooking on Turkey Day getting up with him because he is screaming that his eye hurts and that its (yuck) all stuck closed. Then yesterday I took him to the Pedio have it looked at. He prescribed some antibiotic drops that I get to put in my son’s eye three times a day.

Have you ever put eye drops in the eye of a 7-year-old? This one doesn’t like it. The screaming and whaling and whining and throwing-of-one’s-self-around-the-room-in-protest was more than I could take. He puts his own drops in and I go to the basement and try not to think about the chocolate in my desk.

Those are my excuses.

Today I am going to run and I don’t care about drops or turkeys or anything. Everyone else can go take a flying leap. I’m going running. Dammit.

Today I weighed 179.8. Its very exciting to see it on the scale but I know that 1) my weight can fluctuate by 4 pounds day to day, and 2) its unlikely that I really burned off 2.8 pounds in 4 days. But since I haven’t seen 170-anything in a while, I’m happy. :)

And I haven’t eaten any chocolate since Tuesday. Hard to believe but I haven’t. I don’t think the tiny sliver of chocolate frosted Cub Scout cake counts. Its not real chocolate. And, yes, we are still eating that cake and its been in the fridge and it still isn’t stale. Its like a damn Twinkie, forever preserved.

Getting hungry now…

Did I mention what I eat for breakfast? Everyday? Its kinda gross. I measure it out (not sure why). I take my 1 cup measure, add two heaping teaspoons of Red Mill ground flax seed (omega fats) and a tablespoon of unsalted sunflower seeds, then fill the rest of the way with Bran Buds (fiber), and dump it in the bowl. Add a sliced banana and a couple tablespoons of raisins, and one cup of milk. It comes out a bit mushy but it doesn’t taste too bad.

That’s it for right now. I’m going to eat. Then wait a bit. Then go run. Although, I may just eat something light and then go run, which may be a better idea.

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