In the Air

I'm typing this while at cruising altitude, but don't ask me what that is because I don't spend enough time in the air to actually know. I spent Friday night in Jacksonville, as a work-slash-fun trip, but it's nice to get back to family. I was texted while I was there to ask what kind of oil to use for making popcorn so I was a little sad I missed popcorn-and-a-movie (dear lord, I can do without watching TS3 again though). But I did get to visit with a great high school friend and her family, and her extended family for a bit even (her brother and his family, and parents - all whom I know from high school).

I've been doing good on the no soda kick for the past (checks calendar) 3.5 days but I've MISSED IT. I daydream about the stuff. It's my crack, really. I haven't done QUITE as well with no sweets, but reasonably. I'm not beating myself up over my slip-ups. I had a handful of M&Ms on Thursday night, two mini Milky Way darks, and Lisa made a Toblerone mousse for dessert last night and if you think I'm going to pass THAT up you've got another thing coming. There were also a couple of small glasses of wine ...

I haven't done any exercising due to a bit of a crazy week, but I've forced myself out of the elevator at work a couple times and took nothing but the stairs while I was there - 6 flights a day, each way. (BTW, I did actually get into the elevator and then back out twice. It's work!)

I was amazed at how quickly I was acclimated to driving an SUV. I've never liked larger cars, and I've always appreciated being low to the ground - better for maneuvering, as it was. But after one week in the Tucson I had to get in a Mazda 3 rental and I felt So! Short! I got used to it, but the drive to my work obligation was very strange. I'll be glad to get back in my own beautiful vehicle. (Also, it's not often that I get in a rental and my car is better. I loved my Corolla, but bells and whistles it did not have).

This month is going to be difficult and crazy. I want to make good food choices while I'm on the road for work (I have seven day trips and this overnight) but any exercising I do will likely be at home. I bought myself a kettlebell (Shea, gonna come over and show me how to use it properly?) and I have a couple of exercise things to start (there's really good yoga doodads on YouTube, surprisingly).

The people in front of me are drinking on this flight. I know it's common, but it's like 9am. I am not opposed to an early morning mimosa, but it feels like it would be weird to have a 7&7 for breakfast. Just me, apparently.

I'm working my way through Dragonfly in Amber, but it feels like it's dragging and it disappears from my ebook library in a fair nine days (I'm somewhere around 250 of 1033). I have another book from the ebook library that is likely to take me a couple hours to read (Evanovich, don't judge) and then I NEED to get started on my two book club books. I picked Light Between Oceans for my pick for my main book club (it's my month to host) so obviously I should read the dern thing before people show up at my house to discuss it. For the book club that my neighbor started, we are reading Glass Castles. I've already read it but it's been a couple years so I need to get a quick re-read in before the 18th (and it won't even count toward my year of books, wah! I don't count re-reads). So four. If I can get through those four, possibly it will be a successful month. I do have several driving trips for work though, so if anyone has any good (cheap) audiobooks to recommend, please do.


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