Week 2, Day 6
Today has been a surprisingly productive day. I biked around the lake a couple of times, then went on a quick neighborhood run afterwards so that I could claim 1,000 calories expended via the advanced technology of my heart rate monitor. By the time I got around to taking it off, it had totaled up 1,050. So, that, coupled with a low intake of food has brought my consumption for today to almost 800 calories, and my expenditure is at 3,500. I guess I should mention that I didn’t get a lot to eat today because I was busy with the kids and the cycling and the running and the working on repairing my relationship stuff. Yes, Shep and I have lasted another day but we’re taking bets from interested parties on how much longer we can be nice to one another. Anyway, I took the kids to a pizza buffet for dinner as a sort of thank you for not a single child falling into the lake while Shep and I took turns winding our way around it, and decided to not blow my diet on crap I didn’t want to put down my throat anyway. By the time we got home it was late, and all I could justify eating was something that would actually digest and that turned out to be some applesauce (huh. applesauce is one word, is it? dividing it as two words looks wrong) and fruit.
Back to the Shep thing, though. I will probably write more about how we can’t seem to keep our relationship together, but the truth is that we genuinely love each other. It’s just all the other stuff that tends to make the going a little bit harder for us… raising the kids (now, that’s a shocker. Who knew raising children could be hard on a relationship?), dealing with the ex and my, ahem, eccentric father, and of course, putting up with each other’s quirks. We might not be okay, but we are going to try our best. In spite of his many flaws, I really do love him and can’t imagine living out the rest of my life without him. I think, actually, I might have written that last sentence before, so there it is: it must be true.
Now, if you will excuse me, Monkey is having nightmares about a dead fish the three of them found floating in the water this afternoon. I guess that means that Bodyworlds is definitely out for her.
