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There's No Place Like Home...
I spent the better part of the day in Marin seeing Gretchen's first ballet about a little girl named Sophie who falls asleep and dreams about enchanted toys. I haven't been to a ballet in a century or two and I was like a little kid again seeing my first Nutcracker at the San Francisco War Memorial building in the 1970's, although I wasn't quite so young as Gretchen when I saw my first ballet (she won't be 3 for another month and a half).
But she was a very good girl when one considers that the ballet lasted 2 hours and she had no nap. We changed seats to the high tier with hardly any people at intermission because I was pretty sure she wouldn't make it through the 2nd half. Right before the finale, she was facing backward and bounced on her seat and got what amounts to a rug burn on the tip of her nose when she slipped face first down the chair. It elicited a shriek and I raced with her out of the theater to calm her outside. I was frazzled and ran my nylons, but all in all it was a girly-fun day with my babykins and her grandma & auntie.
We went to the Teddy Bear Tea Party afterwards, which was my bribe to get Gretchen to stop crying from her poor rug-burned nose. I told her there would be cookies and juice and princesses. We took pictures with the ballerinas. She drank her juicebox. We got a pink and a purple balloon. We ate bear shaped butter cookies. I ate every bite and licked my fingers and didn't feel guilty once.
I am tired again tonight, but had a good day. I am not sleeping enough, which hasn't helped on many levels. But things are considerably calmer on the homefront. The entire week has been a low-pressure cyclonic system, a tornado whose funnel touched down upon my world, laying waste to many of my days. The dust has settled, and I don't know how clearly drawn the lines of relationship are, but I don't know how clear any of that is for anybody.
I do feel the need to pay attention, to see if this is a pattern in my life that emerges under certain conditions. It's interesting to think about because when you look at how storms form in nature, there are signs along the way that the storm is coming. Cyclones occur under specific conditions, often out of thunderstorms. If the right conditons exist :: POOF :: you have yourself a twister. I imagine the storms in our lives are much the same. The signs are all there, we just have to pay attention. Knowing how to read the signs doesn't mean you can prevent the storm, but it often can mean you're able to prepare to avoid devastation.
FOOD TIMING
Bedtime: 3:15A
Wake time: 9:45A
10:20 - Green tea
11:40 - soy nuts
12:00 - Lunch
12:30 - Water
3:15 - Cookie, water
4:30 - 5:30 - Green tea
5:30 - Snack (salmon & arugula)
5:30 - 7:00 - Green tea
5:30 - 6:30 - Holiday party (Broccoli & dip, brie no bread)
7:00 - Dinner (wrap)
8:00 - chocolate, green tea
10:00 - green/peppermint tea
11:30 - fishoil
It's 11:15P, I'm kind of hungry again, but think I will ignore it. I have some tea left and I need to take some fish oil.
Water was difficult because I couldn't take it into the theater today, but I managed. No terribly unmanageable cravings today. Plan on getting another piece of that Porno chocolate cake from Whole Foods tomorrow.
View Diet Calendar, 19 December 2009:
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1721 kcal
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Fat: 83.99g | Prot: 125.60g | Carbs: 128.46g.
Breakfast: green tea. Lunch: apple juice, water, canola oil, rock shrimp, onion, iceburg lettuce, sour cream, salsa, guacamole, mexican rice, pinto beans. Dinner: green tea, Smart & Delicious Low Carb High Fiber Whole Wheat - LARGE, onion, ground beef, organic herb salad, egg white, chicken. Snacks/Other: Soy Nuts, Organic Crunch Dried Snacks, Peppermint/Green Tea, bottled water, brie, ranch dressing, broccoli florets, arugula, olive oil mayonnaise, pacific pink salmon, butter cookie. more...
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4019 kcal
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Exercise:
Housework - 1 hour, Standing - 4 hours and 30 minutes, Walking (slow) - 2/mph - 3 hours, Desk Work - 3 hours, Driving - 1 hour and 10 minutes, Sleeping - 6 hours and 15 minutes, Resting - 5 hours and 5 minutes. more...
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