TJ North

Loverboy just left. Poor guy spent almost the entire weekend working on my yard. He cleaned and trimmed and moved and cut and raked…looks darn good now. I bought some new lawn furniture and a firepit and I am going to enjoy spending time out there.  Now I feel ready for summer. (I did help too…lol) Next weekend we will be at the cabin and it will be payback time - he already has a list of chores lined up for me! I don’t mind as long as a) I have Friday night off and b) I get to go fishing for a couple of hours. He doesn’t really like to fish and everything with him has to be a major expedition. I can’t help but laugh sometimes…the cabin is on a little lake, barely a mile wide, and he talks about ‘rough’ water and although I have a healthy respect for water safety, there is no way you get anything approaching rough water on this lake. You get either little ripples, or big ripples…I grew up on a Great Lake - I can tell the difference.

It is cooling off a bit as the evening wears on so I will head out soon with the animal. He’s laying in the hallway, watching me closely. I have to do a bit longer walk tonight to make up for the shortened routes over the weekend, or the math will catch up with me and I won’t make my goal again this month. I think I will be closer this time though.  And I am just under the 1700 cal mark for the day. Yay me. A high protein, low fat, moderate carb day. I gave in to the siren call of the biscotti this morning, and that bumped the numbers.

Pleasantly tired, promising myself I am going to start this week off on a good foot and get to sleep before midnight.  Well, off to feed the skeeters.

{later} My brand new cell phone has developed a strange problem. The display screen is black. Everything seems to be working otherwise. Means I will have to trek back to the store for a replacement. It is only a month old, and of course I have no clue where to find the receipt. Sometimes I feel like there are a thousand and one little life annoyances lined up waiting their turn at me.