Holy shit, I seriously almost died today in my car, which is a tiny black Civic without air conditioning, driving to Yakima.  I had to drop Lucy off at the kennel she usually goes to, which is up near Seattle, but then we got stuck in SERIOUS traffic and it was 104 degrees and I’m a Northwest girl and they’re Northwest dogs, we are wusses about the heat, and honestly, I was scared for their lives.  At the kennel, they let me give Klaus a quick, cold bath to cool him off because I thought he was about to perish from heatstroke or some such sun-related illness.  The traffic on 1-5 took for-fucking-ever to get through and turned out to be because of a fire (!!) that burnt down a patch of the divider between N and S lanes of the freeway up near Kent.  Crazy.

So, I was quite grumpy, but then arrived at my mothers house and she had prepared an incredible feast of a dinner, incorporating all my favorite edible aspects of summers here.  It was amazing.  We leave tomorrow morning for Montana.

Breakfast: english muffin with sliced turkey, 1 slice gouda, light mayo, sprouts

Lunch: no

Dinner: oh my god, what DIDN’T I have for dinner, but it was mostly healthy.  Green bean salad with tomatoes, basil, onions, olive oil, vinagar, herbs.  Potatoes with feta cheese, chives and more herbs from Moms garden.  An ear of corn (half of which I burned badly on the grill- my one dinner task, to prepare the corn, went horribly awry).  3 slices pork roast (whoops).  Delicious.

Also, weirdly, I drank a regular soda today.  I am the sort that NEVER allows an ounce of non-diet soda to pass her lips.  It’s like the sugary stuff doesn’t exist for me, usually- give me Nutrasweet or give me death!  I love the diet pepsi etc.  But I was all sweated out and fatigued after driving for six goddamn hours and I drank a cold root beer I bought at a gas station and I swear, you guys, it was like manna from heaven.

Exercise: 1 mile with dogs

1000 miles in 2009: 529.5 (I need to get to work on this thing- more stationary bike upon my return!!)

Song of the Day: Anti Love Song, by Betty Davis

Daily awesome: Because of my anxiety of leaving my dogs for the weekend (Lucy at the kennel and Klaus in Yakima with my dad), I give you the greatest collection of pet halloween costumes I have ever seen.  Appreciate, in particular, the chef and lobster-in-a-pot and the collection of fast foods.