Sometimes I wonder why I even TRY to plan my evenings.
The plans always get thrown away and we're off on some adventure. I suppose that's just reality with 2 teens in the house. Last night I had to take DD and her friend to the tennis courts so they could play their challenge match. They have practice with the team for 2 hours each day. Then the coach gives them a match to play on their own time before practice the next day. Looks like I'd better just keep all evenings free for the next week and a half.
After all that was over, we got dinner....at 9:15 PM.
Eating late is never easy for me because by then I'm starving and I tend to inhale my food and overeat. The next morning, all that food feels like a rock in my stomach and I eat carby stuff trying to feel better. I'm a bit frustrated, knowing that this will be the schedule for another week & a half, while I'm battling the dreaded DZone. Fate is conspiring against me!
In addition to all this, my foot is still giving me problems so no exercise last night. I did spend time icing the arches of both feet. I don't want to give up the half marathon in St. Louis, but the reality is that if I don't get some training in soon, I won't be ready. DH says we'll still go and have fun doing more sightseeing, but I promised I'd do the half with Amanda and I don't want to let her down.
I don't have to decide right now about the half but I sure wish I could get out there and walk, because my weight is starting to creep up.
Today:
1. Devotions - This one thing I do, forgetting those things, which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. - Philippians 3:13-14 Dr. Norman Vincent Peale says the art of forgetting past failings is a necessity - very wise.
2. Pills - will take them momentarily.
3. Water - haven't done well with this one lately. I've been averaging 36oz per day. Today I'll have 3 bottles of water while at work.
4. Healthy eating - B was a bagel w/ butter, for lunch I must go downstairs and get something healthy at the cafeteria - no more EVM lunches!!!, why plan dinner when I have no idea when we'll be eating
5. Exercise - a "sore" subject right now
6. Scale - just didn't have the guts to face it this morning.
I "feel" fat enough, I don't need positive confirmation.
There are positive things waiting for me today. I just have to look at the world with the right attitude to see them. With the DZone hormonal influence upon me, I'll have to work extra hard at this.
I'm taking a song from Perry Como as my theme song today:
You gotta accent-tu-ate the positive,
E-lim-inate the negative,
An' latch on
To the affirmative
Don't mess with Mister in-between!
You gotta spread joy up to the maximum,
Bring gloom down to the minimum,
An' have faith ( Amen! )
Or pandemonium's
Liable to walk upon the scene!
And also, I promise, this is my last cent 
Happy, happy anniversary.
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I sure am ready for a party to celebrate the end of the work week! 
This has felt like a really looooonnnnngggg week and I'm tired but all the music and fun here has given me an extra burst of energy! 
to all my WISH friends!!
for your DD on her drivers test. Tell her to read the question and answers before picking the best one, tell her to breathe, and parallel parking is best to practice with friends acting as the parked cars (yes, they can always move out of the way). You don't want to hit your friends as you manuver the car and since people are taller than cones, they are easier to see. Keep the car windows down so that each can yell directions and encouragement!
Happy Sweet 16 to your 
DD, Doe! Prayers are on the way for your DD learner's permit test and for a healthy, happy, and blessed year ahead! 
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