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Food January 3rd, 2010
Posted by Administrator on 28 Nov 2010 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
обзавеждане за спални3 weetbix, 1 sugar, 1/2 cup milk (1%)
1/2 small (! – 24 ounces was the full size) rootbeer @movies (it’s complicated)
1 small popcorn, no butter
1 grande tea, 1 sachet sugar, splash of milk, 1/2 chocolate croissant (beanery)
whole meal bread, margarine, vegemite spread
cup tea, milk, sugar
bread roll, barbeque pulled pork, sip of ginger ale, glass of water
3 small toblerone pieces, herbal tea, no milk or sugar.
Song Walk Day 55, Tuesday September 19, 2006
Posted by Administrator on 19 Sep 2006 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
walked the ususal route, up to 5th and broad street, round back down broad to 10th street and home.
10:45PM – 11:19PM approx
didn’t walk this morning, slept in. Weird dreams with frogs in the shower/bath, so I couldn’t have a shower. Wherever else I went, it morphed into concrete seats for the Dixie Chicks concert. Seats that up and revolved around to right next to the stage. Fabulous ticket! And then I ended up being on stage, as part of their imprv bits (that they don’t have) between songs. I didn’t freak, I just went along with it. Chatted to them between sketches, behind the scenes. the point at which I realised it was a dream, was when one of the girls explained that she was a lesbian, and also Persian. Since she’s married and not anything other than Caucasian, my brain worked out that I was still asleep, and really should wake up and get ready for work. Dream from 8:00am until I woke up with a start at 9:30AM. No walk, but a strange dream involving frogs and bullfrogs and toads in my bathroom. Could be related to our ongoing sewer problems, and the fact that I miss our bullfrog singing, now we’ve had to fill in the pool.
Song Walk Day 49, Wednesday September 13, 2006
Posted by Administrator on 13 Sep 2006 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
Up early, 7:30, for the construction guy to start filling in the pool. Not that I needed to be up, per se, it’s just with the banging of the truck back as the dirt comes out, and the grader being right behind our bedroom window, continuing to sleep would not have been an issue.
Had several hours of web design to do before the day job, so no morning walk.
Worked late, until just after 8. Made dinner, a riff on the Fig Quesadillas. Figs at the local Pathmark are $1.00 each (each!!). I still had some of the coriander, purple onion, jalapeno mix that I wanted to use before it went slimy and sad. I substituted 1 diced avocado (for $1.50, better than $5.00 for figs) and covered that with the juice of 1/2 lime, so it would not go brown.
Jeff folded the tortilla like a burrito, and then in the oven for 10 minutes on full 350 heat, flipped, oven turned off, and the burrito crisped up nicely while we did a quick car dash to drop off a gift certificate and card for a friend’s grandson.
After we came back, and ate, we went for our walk. We walked up to the new food market on the corner of 5th and Broad, where I bought an Alex’s Stand Pink Lemonade. I made a couple of “how you doing, old fella?” cracks to Jeff, and we sprint walked for 5 or so minutes. Worked up a sweat!
10:10 – 10.47. No idea how far, the new pedometer decided it didn’t want to record after 251 steps. Feh! I thought I had it on right. I’m claiming at least a mile, we did a fairly brisk walk.
Tomorrow I’ll talk about the two charity walks I’m signing up for!
Song Walk Day 48, Tuesday September 12, 2006
Posted by Administrator on 12 Sep 2006 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
9:23 – 9:46AM. 1620 steps, .51 miles.
I’ll have to check new pedometer tomorrow, wearing the same grey track pants and grey stretchy polo neck. The other pedometers all showed this distance to be .81 miles, but they weren’t consistent when they worked. If I get two days of the same results, wearing the same clothes, I’m going to try a lighter pair of pants, with a firm, non elasticised waist, for two days, same route.
If I get the same results, I’ll have to walk faster and aim for a longer distance.
4.10 Beverly Hills Creep 2 – Arty Fufkin on Mashuptown.com
3.46 I drove all Night – Roy Orbison (King of Hearts)
3.45 In the Clouds – Under the Influence of Giants (Heaven is Full EP)
3.38 Light up my Room – BNL (Stunt)
4.08 Beautiful Day – U2 (Best of 1990-2000)
1.04/3.41 Wake Me up when September Ends – Green Day (American Idiot)
Song Walk Day 47, Monday September 11, 2006
Posted by Administrator on 11 Sep 2006 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
8:45PM – 9:15PM. 4571 steps, 1.45 miles.
I think the pedometer’s right, or at least consistent. I still have to do two standard consecutive Song Walks and see if I get the same length each time.
Today was a tightly wound day. Two meetings, one at the beginning of the day, one at the end. Both community work (MWC and the Theatre group respectively), weeks long email and spam issues left me torqued up to the max.
Probably accounts for the longer distance we walked tonight, in a shorter time. I think I managed to keep up a pace that gave Jeff, with his longer legs, a good workout!
We went out to the end of our street, left at G, left at 10th, up to the last traffic light on 10th and Main, and then around and back home again.
I’m not the most Zen of people, hell, I’m not anywhere in the same State as Zen, but walking fast and long or swimming, really helps me think about something else other than the thousands of things I think about all the time.
Song Walk Day 46, Sunday September 10, 2006
Posted by Administrator on 10 Sep 2006 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
8:45PM – 9:15PM New pedometer says (because it speaks in a metal female voice when I push the wee talk button) 3280 steps/1.04 miles.
A day, starting with a sleep in until 10:30, followed by intervals of turning up to keep track of the money and tickets for the theatre fundraiser cruise I’ve been working on for the last 6 weeks. Postponed from 2 weeks ago because of the 6.5 inches of rain and thunder and lightning on the last planned day, today’s weather was Perfect. Thank Goodness! If I’d had to postpone again, I was going over the edge.
Walked with Jeff up and around some of our neighbourhood streets and back.
Song Walk Day 45, Saturday September 9, 2006
Posted by Administrator on 09 Sep 2006 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
7:45 – 8:35PM 5863 steps 1.86 miles.
We left our walk until the sun went down a little. We spent about 3 hours today at a family yard sale. I didn’t think about sunscreen or a hat and my arms are red, my cleavage is red, my face is red (except for the white rings of my eye glasses, I look like a sunburned racoon), even my hairline is red! So no walking in the sun.
We had to get some cash out of the ATM, so we decided to walk there and back, make that tonight’s walk.
We took a little 10 minute break in the middle of the walk, to get the cash out, and make a drink stop at the Walgreens.
We bought Fiji Water and Iceland Pure Water because I wanted to compare. Both chilled from the same display fridge, both about the same price. The Iceland Pure definitely had a crisper “taste”. I mean, bottled water is bottled water, it all tastes like water. But the Iceland water was cleaner and crisper than the Fiji water, and the label talked about a more neutral PH, maybe that was it.
Course, the label also talked about Iceland having the longest living people, and the water being the reason, so I’m taking the label with several grains of salt.
My pedometer is new, new to me anyway. I bought it at the yard sale from a kid for $1.00. Its similar to one I bought a few years back. Similar to this one but with the word TALKing on the front and black and silver, not blue.
But with the same rooster alarm and talking woman! I gave it to a friend of ours, Pat, because it had the rooster sound and she wanted that sound.
It seems to work quite well, I’ll have to test it on my everyday walk, see if it comes with an answer like the other pedometers, and whethere it’ll give the same answer twice!
Song Walk Day 45, Friday September 8, 2006
Posted by Administrator on 08 Sep 2006 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
7:54 – 8:23AM 28.55 minutes .75 miles/2174 steps. That has to be wrong, I walked further than yesterday!
2.48 Telstar – The Ventures (The Ventures Play Telstar)
1.53 Sirius (The Alan Parson’s Project (Eye in the Sky)
3.39 Faces – Under the Influence of Giants (Under the Influence of Giants EP)
3.38 Rejoice – U2 (October)
3.50 Wild Honey – U2 (All that you can’t leave behind)
3.35 Another One Bites the Dust – Queen
4.37 Hamburg Circus – Keane (Under the Iron Tree)
.13 Psycho Circus – People Who Can’t play instruments
4.42 Dirty Day – U2 (Best of 1990-2000)
Up early because the Comcast tech guy was scheduled between 7AM and 9AM. Walked past a brown bunny who froze up until I got a little too close and then bolted. Just in someone’s front yard! When I came back round the loop the bunny was contentedly snacking on grass. Lots of kids out waiting for the school bus, and cars zooming past, running late for work. They seemed late for work, the speed they were doing down our little back streets.
Really, I should have an appointment every morning, I got so much done! A longer walk (my usual morning walk plus a side trip down Galasstown Road to the factory intersection and back), loads of washing, swimming gear organised, cat litter cleaned. I may well be knackered at the end of the day, early mornings can catch up on me that way.
We’re doing a DiBruno Cheese and Flying Fish tasting with Plin tonight, that should be enough to keep me going.