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Thursday July 26 (from memory... and I don't quite remember (AGAIN)) Breakfast: 3 cups coffee with homemade creamer, egg with tomato and mozz cheese Snack: grapes, Greek (flavor?) yogurt with raspberries and chocolate granola Lunch: salad: spinach, onion, mushrooms, raisins, turkey slices, "lite sesame ginger" dressing Snack: peach, apple Snack: candy! Snack: banana Dinner: 1/2 chicken breast and Green Giant veggies Dessert: candy! Pedometer: 4471 steps, 1637 aerobic steps. Workout: didn't. Housemates waited until the moment I was leaving to walk/run, and then told me they wanted to see a movie. I have many many words to say on this - MANY - but I'm exhausted. It's Friday at 11pm and I'm wondering whether I really have to be up at 1030 tomorrow for when housemates' grandparents visit or if it's socially acceptable to just sleep through it. Success of the Day: Gosh I don't even remember Thursday. Not freaking out re:movie? Although I guess I did kind of freak out, just not TO and/or AT housemates. Friday July 27 Breakfast: 3 cups coffee with homemade creamer, egg with tomato and mozz cheese Snack: a baby cup of coffee with powder creamer at the courthouse Snack: grapes Snack: Dunkin Donuts caramel iced coffee, Oreo creme donut (nothing else!) Drinks: two vodka OJ's And that is it. Pedometer: 5588 steps, 1149 aerobic steps, but took it off after work. Workout: none. Watched Step Up 4: Revolution. Best decision ever. I love the Step Up franchise. Saturday July 29 Breakfast: 2 cups coffee with homemade creamer Lunch: lunch with housemates' grandparents. Salad (lettuce, tomatoes, mushrooms, avocado, Lite Balsamic dressing), corn on the cob, burger (I think it had cheese mixed in, bun, ketchup, slice cheddar cheese) Dinner: pizza delivery. 3? parmesan wings, 1 piece of breadstick. 1 piece margarita pizza (did not like), 1 piece meat pizza (didn't like it even more). 2 homemade mojitos Candy: I only ate a little through the day, less than usual days, more than Saturday. Pedometer: 0, still in the car from after work yesterday. Workout: none. Sunday July 29 Breakfast: cup of coffee with milk, 1 banana, about 1/2 slice of zucchini bread Lunch: fancy Asian fusion place. A Dynamite Shrimp or two of housemates' sister's shrimp app. Then I had Shanghai noodles with shrimp, and I ate 1/2 or 2/3. Dinner: homemade calzone (1/2 Pillsbury rollout pizza crust, sauce, 1 cup mozz cheese, 1/4 cup ricotta cheese, pepperoni, and ate it with additional sauce) Dessert: 1 slice cookie cake Candy: not much at all. I think I had two chocolate coins. Pedometer: 271. I grabbed it out of the car around... 3:30pm. Workout: none.

Wednesday July 25 Breakfast: 3 cups coffee with homemade creamer, egg with tomato and mozz cheese Snack: we stopped for coffee on our way to a meeting. I got a medium breve, which is apparently espresso and half&half and is apparently a calorie bonanza. Snack: grapes, Greek vanilla yogurt with raspberries and chocolate granola Lunch: salad: spinach, onion, mushrooms, raisins, turkey slices, "lite sesame ginger" dressing Snack: apple Snack: too big slice of zucchini bread, candy! Dinner: 1/2 chicken breast, 1/2 bag of "Terriyaki veggies" which was brocolli, cauliflower, and carrots, and the sauce Snack: 17 pretzels. I was SO HUNGRY after dinner. Snack: candy! But only a little. Sleep was prioritized. Pedometer: 7038 steps, 4859 aerobic steps. Workout: 1.32 mi, 40 minutes, 4+0 minutes running. Success of the Day: A real success today, which was turning in the draft. I read it yesterday before I left work and thought, "this is the GD BEST legal paper EVER WRITTEN ON THIS TOPIC!!!!" then I read it last night and thought, "this is okay... if I re-write everything." So what I turned in today was, I don't know, mid. Mid is how I describe it, I guess. And now it turns into a sarcastic success... My boss was INSCRUTABLE when I handed it to him. He thumbed through the pages (what was he doing? Counting them?) and then said "okay" like I should leave, in not the way he usually tells me to leave (in a worse way this time). And then asked me what the other docs were and then I told him and then I left. Man. IN. SCRUTABLE.

Tuesday July 23 (from memory... and I don't quite remember) Breakfast: 3 cups coffee with homemade creamer, egg with tomato and mozz cheese Snack: grapes, Greek black cherry yogurt with raspberries and chocolate granola Lunch: salad: spinach, onion, mushrooms, raisins, turkey slices, "lite sesame ginger" dressing Snack: peach, apple Snack: candy! Snack: banana Dinner: housemate-made chicken curry over brown rice Dessert: candy! Pedometer: 7809 steps, 5668 aerobic steps. Workout: ? mi, 42 minutes, 8+4 minutes running. Success of the Day: I take a shuttle in the morning from the satellite parking lot to (close to) work. There's the real stop, which is near the entrance to the parking lot, and also a last-ditch type spot, which is at the very edge of the parking lot. This morning, the bus driver saw me, stopped at the last ditch spot, I'm the only person around, I got about halfway between my car and the stop... and he left me. He left. The next bus took 10 or 11 minutes, and I was 12 minutes late to work. Today was definitely a "How Do Grownups Do It?" day. I was late leaving work because I got roped into an extra small job - and believe me, I avoid extra jobs like I avoid my actual job. Then I was late leaving the parking lot because I was trying to decide whether to email the Big Boss that I'd left material for tomorrow morning on my desk, and checking to see when the bank closed. Then realized I didn't have my deposit slip anyway. Things I wanted to do when I got home: work on the draft for tomorrow (today was the first day I have EVER brought work home), cook dinner, run the dishwasher, hand wash my button down shirt, fix the hem on my suit skirt and wash off the makeup I got on it in my rush on Friday. Things I had to do instead: empty and re-load the dishwasher because it had been run, wash the button down while in the shower with body wash, eat housemates' dinner (which smelled delicious while it cooked but was old by the time I got to it), try to figure out what my mother had done to our home internet service (something WRONG), and barely have enough time to do any of this. I don't know how real grownups do it, and I definitely don't know how grownups with little people do it, and I triple don't know how real grownups, with little people, with demanding outside the 9-5 jobs do it. There just is not time.

Monday July 23 Breakfast: 3 cups coffee with homemade creamer, egg with tomato and mozz cheese, and a piece of bread Snack: grapes, Greek raspberry yogurt with raspberries and chocolate granola Lunch: salad: spinach, onion, mushrooms, raisins, turkey slices, raspberry walnut(?) dressing (STOLEN!) Snack: candy! Got a candy box today. I'll post a picture later when I'm at home. Dinner: a whole Green Giant box of potatoes, red peppers, and peas, 1 Garlic Parmesan chicken wing Dessert: candy! Pedometer: 9286 steps, 6349 aerobic steps. (Woah, not sure why the pedometer's so high? Normal day + grocery + gas station + workout but nothing special.) Workout: 1.40 mi, 41 minutes, 4+2+2+4 min running. Today had many but's: but I ran into my housemates driving so I talked to them for a few minutes, but two scary dogs stopped my first run and cut it down to only 4 minutes, but those equal 12 minutes which is the longest I've run in a while (I miss you, 3 mi days!), and but even though I stopped three times, I started four times. Good for me. Success of the Day: My internship is only a summer internship, obviously. It is a defined time period job. My boss and I never discussed my end date. Now, (a) internships are never more than 10 weeks, because 10 weeks is about how long a semester is, and I've been here 11 weeks, ( the other intern started two weeks after me and is leaving next Friday, and (a) + ( = I need to leave this Friday. I was determined to tell him on Monday, because I should have told him before but it's very awkward. I only ever talk to my boss to get or hand in assignments, and I didn't want to say, "sure I'll draft that, by the way I'm leaving" because that sounds like "I guess I'll do it if you're making me but this blows and I am out of here." So I finally told him Monday, in what must have been the most awkward way possible. Boss: Have the draft done by Wednesday, and I'll look at it on Thursday or Friday. Me: SPEAKING OF Thursday and Friday... I think I'm done working here. ... Boss: How long have you been here? Me: 10 weeks. (LIE.) I have no more weeks to give. CLEARLY handled in the most professional way possible. I wish I didn't feel bad about this. First, because the bad feeling is totally unproductive, there's no way to redo this now, and anyway it's not like this might jeapordize a job offer for me, our relationship is pretty much finished after summer. But second, because this really shouldn't be on me. Summer internships only last the summer, and he knew my start date and he can do math. It should be on him to TELL me or ASK me my end date, and/or to AT LEAST expect it when I finally offer it. I told my parents this story too, then they heard the bag open + crunch of candy eating. Dad: What are you eating? Me: MY FEELINGS!

Sunday June 22 Breakfast: < 2 cups coffee with homemade creamer, 1 banana and a slice zucchini bread Lunch: Chipotle (930 cal, 30g fat, 59.5g protein (!)), and just one chip with guacamole Snack when Housemates Left: *I go crazy when housemates leave, I'm high off of the freedom* slice zucchini bread, 1 marshmallow with nutella (straight out the jar, I just stuck the marshmallow in there) Dinner: 1/2 chicken breast, the rest of the Green Giant veggies, slice of bread Dessert: slice apple pie with whipped cream. That pie was from the 4th! I completely forgot about it. Housemates don't usually have dessert, but this week we've had the pavlova, the ice cream, and the muffins, and last weekend I was gone, so I totally forgot the pie. Pedometer: 1813 steps, 0 aerobic steps. Workout: none. Success of the Day: A law school friend called last night to ask me some questions about applying to OCI, since obviously I'd know. Me: "is today an OCI day?!?!?" So, I didn't know. Luckily she called with a whole hour 20 minutes until the deadline (which is exactly when I would have started even if I DID know, probably) and we both had time to get our bids in. And it only took four separate phone calls.

Saturday July 21 Breakfast: chocolate espresso beans, 2 cups coffee with homemade creamer, bowl Special K Fruit and Yogurt with milk Lunch: slice of zucchini bread, egg with spinach and mozz cheese, piece of bread Snack: another slice of zucchini bread, some Neopolitan ice cream ("it's fine, I'll eat it with a fork" <--- actual thought), a few more chocolate espresso beans Dinner: the fatty-fat-fat buffalo chicken dip with tortilla chips, which was not as good as last time, and I ate less - still hungry as I type this. And this broccoli recipe, which was very good and I imagine had none of the nutritional properties of broccoli at all. Dessert: a blueberry cheesecake muffin Pedometer: 826 steps (!), 0 aerobic steps. Workout: none. I thought about Batman a lot though, does that count? Internet of the Day: Danger Guerrero ‏@DangerGuerrero: FYI: On this week's 'Franklin & Bash' a summer associate told them it's a seller's market and THEY needed to impress HER. Like, seriously. LOL Second Internet of the Day, since I'm catching up on the tumblrs: Resigning to a post full of Internets of the Day: "Oh, and the handsomest of those friends, Paul the Photographer (sorry other boys I saw this weekend, you’re handsome, too) revealed that he has a crush on me. Which is 22-year-old Sarah’s dream come true. Nearly 25-year-old Sarah doesn’t really have anything she can do with this information, though. Sigh." This Internet of the Day is hilarious: "...although gym memberships and cucumber mojitos can't be purchased with 'efficacy' or 'satisfaction.'" I'm at so many Internets of the Day now but this was so funny I showed housemate:

"Your submission cannot be processed because the token has expired. Please reload the window." Does anyone know why this is happening? I leave my page up all the time, as a tab, and it didn't used to be a problem. But now, if I click back to it and try to post, that's the message I get. And in what I think is a related issue, things are no longer "Auto Saved" for me, which I loved because I could start a post at home and it would be in the Reply Box on my page when I got to work. Thoughts?

Friday July 20 Breakfast: 3 cups coffee with homemade creamer, egg with tomato and mozz cheese, and a piece of bread Snack: grapes, Greek vanilla yogurt with raspberries and chocolate granola Lunch: salad: spinach, onion, mushrooms, raisins, turkey slices, some kind of awful tomato dressing Snack: zucchini muffin Dinner: out. Cheeseburger on wheat with garlic parmesan cheese, and fries with ketchup Edit: Snack: I also finished the chocolate gator and gummy gators Pedometer: 6994 steps, 1420 aerobic steps. Workout: none. Batman! I have a lot to complain about about Friday - everything surrounding the movie was a total, frustrating mess, although the movie itself wasn't - but I also have a lot to be excited about. I went to a hearing Friday morning! It was fun. I suited up, got to work early, talked with the family, set up the argument with the lawyer (and when we were in the conference room, all cool, suits on and papers everywhere, like the West Wing if West Wing had been about low-level law, the other intern came in and said "do you... need... help?" and the lawyer said "no." That's it, shut down. This is not your case it's MINE! Hahahahahah!), did not bring my ID but thank goodness was allowed in anyway, got my cool picture court-badge-sticker, and sat in on the couple hours-long hearing. It's not like real court, because it's in front of an ALJ, but there were still a couple of "objections" and even an "objection, argumentative" which is one of those things they use on TV so often that I thought it must not exist in real life. Apparently it's really rare to go to an actual hearing - that punk other intern didn't get to go, obviously, HAHAHA - but even the junior lawyer, when she heard I was going, wanted to go because she hadn't seen one before. See how special I am??!?!?

Thursday July 19 Breakfast: 3 cups coffee with homemade creamer, egg with tomato and mozz cheese, and a piece of bread Snack: grapes, Greek vanilla yogurt with raspberries and chocolate granola Lunch: salad: spinach, onion, mushrooms, raisins, turkey slices, "lite sesame ginger" dressing Snack: peach, apple Uh... Snack: zucchini muffin? Maybe? Or maybe I just wanted one but didn't get one. I did have a few chocolate covered espresso beans. Snack: banana Dinner: 1/2 chicken breast and Green Giant veggies, piece of bread. Turned down the wings housemates had saved for me from their takeout (nice of them though!) Dessert: Neopolitan ice cream with sprinkles Ah the great decision of not writing this in on the day I live it. I think this is everything, but I'm not really sure. Pedometer: 8294 steps, 5136 aerobic steps. Workout: 1.39 mi, 40 min, <1+5+0 min running.

Internet of the Day, of every day: “…I have eighteen layers of clothes on. I’m wearing a shirt and a tie and a sweater and a suede jacket that just seals in all the heat. Seals in all the juices. I’m just…it’s all sweat under here. This is just sweat from here down. I’m…this sweater, this is called slim cut, but it feels like a scuba suit…” - Cal Weaver [Crazy, Stupid Love] Now that I've seen this movie, I have something to think about every time I wear a shirt under another shirt under a jacket in the 100 degree heat for the sake of looking professional, or a shirt under a sweater or a shirt under a shirt just so I don't look like a street tramp, or God forbid a skirt under a skirt, which I have actually had to do and is a reality I'd rather not return to.

Wednesday July 18 Breakfast: 3 cups coffee with homemade creamer, egg with tomato and mozz cheese Snack: 2 pieces watermelon Snack: grapes, yogurt with blueberries, blueberry sauce and chocolate granola. So few grapes and blueberries today! I went to the store after work Snack: Andes candy Lunch: leftover taco from yesterday. Burrito shell, black beans, onions, chicken, cheese Snack: apple Snack: zucchini muffin Snack: banana Dinner: housemate made Italian Wedding Soup with store-bought Italian bread, I had one bowl and one piece. Then I had a 1/2 chicken breast (cooked in spray and spices) with BBQ sauce Snack: while cleaning I had a couple bites of the bread (small... I felt guilty), some of the pavlova from yesterday (enough to qualify as "a piece") and some milk Pedometer: 7776 steps, 4469 aerobic steps. Workout: ? mi, 40 minutes, 8+0 minutes running. I forgot to look at the pedometer when I got in, and I put it back on after my shower, so I'm not sure how far I went. The average distance, I'm sure. When I finished prepping all my pre-food - cut up mushrooms, onions, and turkey for salad, made creamer - and made lunch for tomorrow, my housemate said "do you ever make more than one lunch at once?" Me: "No, I don't have enough tupperwares." Her: "it just seems like a lot of work." Me: "it is." It is. Life is a lot of work (but at least I don't think about work after work, which I love so much). I get home around 545, grocery shop or hang out until 630 (*although I have GOT to start doing productive things during this time), workout, shower, call my parents, it's 830. Eat dinner and watch some TV/movie. Get up at 1030 to make tomorrow's lunch, go in at 11, bedtime routine until 1115, sleep, repeat. But I like have a real life, and I love having a routine. I was just thinking that today before my housemate said anything.

Tuesday July 17 Breakfast: 3 cups coffee with homemade creamer, egg with spinach and mozz cheese Snack: grapes, yogurt with blueberries and honey Lunch: salad: spinach, onion, mushrooms, raisins, turkey slices, red wine walnut dressing Farm Day! Our Big Boss took the office out to his farm (it's annual, I guess) and we all potlucked taco makings. I bought but didn't drink lemonade. I got back too late to workout - 3 hours too late - but thought the walking at the farm would take care of it. It didn't! My pedometer is pathetic. Snack: chips and many salsa varieties and guacamole varieties Dinner: 1 burrito. Burrito shell, white rice, black beans, chicken (only chicken stock, chicken, and taco seasoning the maker proudly told me), onions, cilantro, and cheese Dessert: 2 vegan cakes. One was a homemade crumble with strawberries and maybe rhubarb (?) but it was not good. The other was homemade vanilla cake with canned vanilla frosting, it was good Drinks: I had 4 or 5 cans of Bud Light over the course of the evening. Our secretary, who likes neither the interns nor the other employees and so wasn't excited to be there, was feeding them to me and I was very VERY happily accepting Snack: I might have had a zucchini muffin (...?) and I definitely had a pizza-leftovers 1/2 breadstick with sauce Snack: ate off of the chocolate alligator and gummy alligators Pedometer: 3862 steps, 0 aerobic steps. Workout: none. Farming! Man, this job is really tricking me. I hate not being paid (I'm on a school subsidy). I hate parking in a satellite pay-lot and taking the shuttle in and walking back. I hate that there's no money in that office, that there's no attorney perks - it'd be just like working in a regular, poor, pubic interest office. One of the (junior) attorneys is basically a 40% lawyer with the other 60% being assorted duties like fundraising. One of the non-attorney employees has a second retail job. Nothing about this firm makes financial/prestige/reputation/law-school-was-worth-it sense, except for the joy of helping the helpless and I have to say I can barely muster up enough emotions to care about my own life, much less to be personally satisfied by doing it for a (very low level of) living. (And let me also take this moment to debunk the "lawyers do fine" myth. They don't. It's more than entirely possible that I'll get a job with the same starting salary I could have gotten with a BA and less of a chance for advancement, and even more of a you're-lucky-to-even-have-this-job environment. I could go on. I won't. I don't know enough about it and I don't want to know any more than I already do.) And then they take me to a farm! And it's nice, and the people are nice. And the senior lawyers' kids know each other. And someone bought us Bud Light, which even my housemates think is beneath them, and someone let me drink 4 or 5 of them. And I liked it there, despite not liking any of the other interns. I like that someone would bring us to their farm, and have us eat tacos, and play with children. It's just what they want me to think! I'm being drawn in!

Monday July 16 TRAVEL DAY Breakfast: at hotel. 2 cups coffee with 1 creamer each. Oatmeal with some spice thing and dried cranberries/blueberries, eggs with ham, bacon Snack: blueberry muffin Snack: at airport. Full-sized apple with single-serve peanut butter Late Lunch/Snack: at home again. 17 pretzels, 1 zucchini muffin, grapes. Piece of cheese, double piece of bread Dinner: housemate made immitation Outback Alice Springs Chicken and broccoli fritters Dessert: housemate made blackberry cardamom pavlova. It was okay. I've never had pavlova before, so I'm not sure if the weirdness was because it's a weird dessert or because housemate forgot the vanilla, corn starch, cardamom, and subbed blueberries for blackberries and canned jam for homemade. Pedometer: 9491 steps, 5174 aerobic steps. Workout: 1.38 mi, 43 min, 10+0 min running

Sunday July 15 VACATION Breakfast: hotel. 2 cups coffee with 1 creamer each. Eggs and a flavored yogurt with a small box of Raisin Bran Snack: in car. Blueberry muffin Lunch: at a baby shower. My plate had: fruit cup, veggie cup (asparagus, carrots, potato with a little sauce), a roll, chicken BBQ with a sauce. Dessert was a crazy good chocolate cupcake (from Daphne's Simply Southern Bakery) and a very small piece of apricot(?) flavored cake Snack: cup of coffee with 1 creamer Dinner: out, if you can believe it. I had a chicken caesar salad and ate it all Dessert: chocolate chip cookie, some more of the chocolate alligator and gummy alligators Pedometer: 5190 steps, 0 aerobic steps. Workout: none.

I know I love it! I saw it on a tumblr I found via tumblr.com/tagged/work-hard. Saturday July 14 VACATION Breakfast: hotel. 2 cups coffee with 1 creamer each. A bite of fruit that was too sweet or something, gave the rest to my mother. A flavored yogurt with a small box of Raisin Bran. A blueberry muffin. Lunch: out. A 1/2 turkey sandwich (I think it also had tomato, lettuce, maybe bacon, cheese, and some kind of sauce) and french fries with ketchup. My parents went out for me, since I was obviously unhappy with the "let's not eat until 6:30pm" situation yesterday, but I did NOT need a full meal. We were also planning on going to dinner, so it was much too much lunch for me, but I very very much appreciate the effort - and didn't say anything, obviously. Dinner: out. We all 3 shared a calamari app with sauce. My dad and I split a large 16" pizza - flat crust, cheese, regular sauce, mushrooms, and my half had pepperoni, I had 4 pieces. Dessert: Cup of coffee with 1 creamer, 1 chocolate chip cookie. I ate off of a chocolate alligator and some gummy alligators. Pedometer: 4932 steps, 0 aerobic steps. Workout: none.

Friday July 13 TRAVEL DAY Breakfast: 2 cups coffee with homemade creamer, egg with diced tomato and mozz cheese Snack (at airport, brought with me): banana Snack: (at hotel): 2 cups coffee with 1 creamer each, edit: a single-serve peanut butter, sour cream and onion chips* Dinner: out. There was an app plate of cheese and cheese-based dips/spreads, but not a lot of food. There was a bread basket with a pimento spread. There was a crab dip with flat bread. Then for my meal I had a chicken and chorizo ravioli with veggies. It's hard to describe portions, but it was an upscale place, so small-to-just-right is probably fair. Snack: 1 cup coffee with 1 creamer, 1 chocolate chip cookie Pedometer: 4950 steps, 0 aerobic steps. Workout: none. *The chips were obviously a bad choice. I had brought another banana with me but didn't want a second one. I should have asked my mom to buy something else, but I didn't even think about it when she ran off to the convenience store. I should have gone to the convenience store myself when I realized it would be a problem. My parents don't eat during the day, they only eat dinner. So I'd had breakfast when I got up at 5 am (4 in this timezone), and a banana at 11, and then we weren't going to leave for dinner until 6. I should have done something

Thursday July 12 Breakfast: 3 cups coffee with homemade creamer, egg with diced real, tiny tomato and mozz cheese Snack: grapes, epic yogurt with blueberries, blueberry... sauce, and chocolate granola, cup of coffee with powdered creamer Lunch: salad: spinach, onion, mushrooms, raisins, turkey slices, red wine walnut dressing Snack: peach Snack: zucchini bread muffin Dinner: 1/2 chicken breast (cooked in spray and spices), asparagus, double piece of bread Snack: another zucchini bread muffin and a glass of milk. Totally necessary, I was still starving. I wolfed it down... if "wolfed" is the correct phrasing. Woofed? Neither really makes sense, but it sounds like woofed when it's said out loud. Pedometer: 1738 steps, 0 aerobic steps. What! I guess I didn't walk very much today. I didn't do anything at work and I didn't work out. I usually walk more during the day though... guess I actually had things to do today. Workout: none, rain. This time the rain was even more legitimate than Tuesday. Internet of the Day: LOL!

Wednesday July 11 Breakfast: 3 cups coffee with homemade creamer, egg with diced real, tiny tomato and mozz cheese Snack: grapes, epic yogurt with blueberries, blueberry acai, and chocolate granola Lunch: salad: spinach, onion, mushrooms, raisins, turkey slices, red wine walnut dressing Snack: peach Dinner at way too late 10/10:20PM: 1/2 chicken breast (cooked in spray and spices) with Bird's Eye broccoli, carrots, and peppers, a double piece of bread (I think I had that with dinner yesterday too. Did I? Whoops.) Snack: zucchini bread muffin Pedometer: 8587 steps, 6152 aerobic steps. Workout: 40 minutes, 1.27 mi, 9+2+5=16 minutes running. Notes: -- The dinner was so late because part of the recipe is grating 2 cups of zucchini, and I had only a small sized grater to work with. I thought maybe I just wouldn't be hungry for dinner, but I was. So I ate late. I shouldn't have eaten the zucchini muffin, but after all that work? Try to stop me. -- Zucchini bread muffins are due to making this zucchini bread recipe last night. I've had that zucchini since forever, and a co-worker and I were both going to make zucchini bread... two weeks ago. She did, I did not. Then I wanted to have it ready so boy housemate could take it with him for girl housemate. I did not. Then I wanted to get it done before I leave this weekend. I did. It's good. Very moist, although my co-worker said that doesn't last long. I'll take some to my parents this weekend. -- I'm headed off this weekend, to NC for my cousins' double baby shower. Taking two days off work, and leaving very early - too early! - Friday morning. It will not be a weekend of healthy food choices (all I know so far is the baby shower will be ribs and cupcakes) but oh well! Vacation! I know, not the best tude, and especially not since I'm not exactly a model of healthy eating this summer. I'll do my best, but as we know, when the option's there, I tend to choose it. Maybe there'll be a lot of walking though. We're going to Mayberry! My second time, would you believe it. -- Tired. I'm not sleeping well although I am sleeping a lot. Last night I went to bed half an hour late because of the zucchini bread, but typically I've been going to bed on time, fallin gasleep before the show I'm watching is over (or even at its middle), and sleepign in past my alarm. But I dream all night and wake up tired, and I'm tired all day.

Tuesday July 10 Breakfast: 3 cups coffee with homemade creamer, egg with diced real, tiny tomato and mozz cheese Snack: grapes, epic yogurt with blueberries, honey, and chocolate granola Lunch: salad: spinach, onion, mushrooms, raisins, turkey slices, red wine walnut dressing Snack: peach Snack: exactly 17 pretzels, root beer jelly beans Dinner: 1/2 chicken breast (cooked in spray and spices) with Bird's Eye broccoli, carrots, and peppers Snack: piece of apple pie with whipped cream, 14 Ghiradelli dark chocolate chips Pedometer: 7751 steps, 4811 aerobic steps. Which is good because even though I didn't work out, I walked the same as yesterday! I heard a presentation today, and it was about a 20 minute walk each way. (In heels, oy!) Workout: none, rain. Which I think is actually the first time this summer my workout was totally called for rain? It's crazy because at home it'd be raining every day.

Monday July 9 Breakfast: 3 cups coffee with homemade creamer, egg with diced real, tiny tomato and mozz cheese Snack: grapes, Nutrigrain bar, yogurt with blueberries Lunch: salad: spinach, onion, raisins, turkey slices, red wine walnut dressing Snack: Andes candy, apple Snack: 2 mini Twizzler pull n peels Dinner: a plate of mac n cheese, bread, asparagus, and 1/2 chicken breast (cooked in spray and spices). I also had the last of a can of mango juice with tequila and water. Yelch. Pedometer: 7204, 4765 aerobic steps. Oh and also, on days when I work out, I usually forget/don't put the pedometer back on after. Workout: 1.29 miles, 41 minutes, 6 minutes running (felt like longer!).

Sunday July 8 Breakfast: 3 cups coffee with homemade creamer, bowl Raisin Bran and milk Snacks through the day: 2 pieces Hawaiian bread with guava preserves, 17 pretzels and some raisins (1/4 c approx), last of the zucchini crisps, piece of bread, last two pieces of bread off the loaf with cheese. I know! So much bread., cheese, JELLO pudding cup Dinner: leftover mac n cheese and asparagus, but not the hard pieces of asparagus. I was raised on can asparagus and I am loyal to it. Real asparagus does not taste the same, and has the unfortunate possibility of hard asparagus, which I always try to suffer through then grow annoyed with. Snack: smaller-than-one-piece apple pie with whipped cream Pedometer: 1021 steps, 0 aerobic steps. Workout: none. Internet of the Day: "It's hard to get this area flat because I have ... large internal organs." Franklin & Bash (But of course in classic TV style, he looks like this and not like anyone who would have to say those words.)

Saturday July 7 Breakfast: 3 cups coffee with homemade creamer, banana with cookie dough creamer, which seemed like a good idea in the moment and a GD terrible idea every minute after that Late Lunch/Early Dinner: leftovers. Mac n cheese, asparagus, 1/4 chicken breast (cooked in spray and spices), zucchini crisps, 2 pieces of bread Pedometer: 4407, 848 aerobic steps. Workout: none. I feel sick now, possibly because 12 hours ago I decided eating a breakfast banana with frosting was a solid idea. Possibly because I don't even know when that chicken was from. In any case - YOU GUYS THEY SO OVERPAID ME. I got there at 5:55, they came home at 11:09 (and asked if they were too late... they had estimated 11pm). We had agreed on $13/hour. So $65 was what I expected (although I never count money in front of my babysitting parents. That's probably stupid. But it feels weird to). $80 is what they gave me. EIGHTY. DOLLARS. You know I'm not even making that rate at work where I do legal work about the law? (Actually, I'm unpaid but on a school stipend.) The rate they posted online was $10-15, so I guess, maybe, they gave me $15x5.25=$78.75 and just rounded up? Man, I miss babysitting. This is sweet money and so easy, and I love kids and they like me. Wow. Clearly I'm still high off of this, still smelling my money. As you were, all.

Friday July 6 Breakfast: 3 cups coffee with homemade creamer, egg with diced real, tiny tomato and mozz cheese Snack: grapes, yogurt with blueberries and some granola a nice coworker gave me Lunch: salad: spinach, onion, mushrooms, raisins, turkey slices, red wine walnut dressing Snack: peach Snack: mint candies and some mini Twizzler pull n peels, 1 margarita Very late dinner, 12am: a plate of mac n cheese, bread, and the zucchini crisps left over. Some apple pie but barely even a quantifiable amount - 1/20th of a slice? Swig of milk. Do I feel bad about telling (unofficial) housemate I was going to bed, then telling him not to come over this weekend, then watching him leave, then going to my room, then coming right back out to watch Awkward. in the dark and eat leftovers? Well, obviously not since I'm talking about it. Pedometer: 4381, 1564 aerobic steps Workout: none. Excuses above. And I took a babysitting job for tomorrow/Saturday. See, good for me. I think I just have a VERY strong "trust your gut" policy, and since my gut wasn't cool with it on the last job, no amount of logic could win me over so I worried. This time, my gut said go. Also you guys, if I'm not back in like a day, get worried that this "babysitting family" is actually a "cannibal attack cohort" and do that thing the internet does when it helps people.

Haha. I'm pretty sure I'll be smarter about it when/IF EVER the time comes. I also don't really run in the get-married-quick circles. My two law school friends are both in multi-year relationships and ain't no rings on those fingers. I'm just get-married-quick circle adjacent, which is frustrating because even though I judge their early marriages, I'm still jealous.

LOL NOPE. I was jinxed. That's yesterday. Today I went to the Target for pages for my planner, and then (as often happens in the Target) stayed to find a dress for me, onesies for my cousins' baby showers, and gift wrap*. Now I'm in my room, fully dressed and makeup-ed, and even if I left right this second I would only have 23 minutes to work out. Plus it's going to rain. Plus it's hot or whatever, I don't know. Plus 3rd/unofficial housemate is probably going to come over tonight, and I don't know if I'll be able to gently exclude him from my weekend, and I'm appreciating the alone time. PLUS, I was jinxed. *I was picking out onesies while on the phone with my father. I was squeeing over some impossibly small baby shoes when he told me to calm down, I was worrying him. Dad, believe the hype. As soon as someone suitable comes along, I'ma be married, pregnant, and dis-employed faster than you can say "but who will support us in our old age?"