I am hungry all the time. This has nothing to do with the 8-week challenge, it just happens from time to time. I have no idea what causes it, but every now and then I am constantly looking for food. It stays for a few days or a few weeks, then everything goes back to normal. It has been coming up for the last few days and today... bam! Total starvation.
I started the day at 6 am with a peanut butter and banana sandwich on spelt bread with pear sweetened strawberry jam. By 10:30, my stomach was howling! Actually, it was quieter than Brian's, but he hadn't had breakfast yet, and I had. Anyway, we decided to go up to Biscuits Cafe and grab a bite to eat. By the time we got there it was after 11, so Brian had lunch. Not me. I was humming my order to myself on the way up there: two eggs, two pancakes and an order of home fried red potatoes, with a glass of iced tea. It was a rather tuneless melody, but the words were right. I know it was super high in carbohydrates, but it hit the spot perfectly.
I have to tell you about the waiter's tattoo. He had a full sleeve on his left arm of... wait for it... dogs playing poker! It was brilliant. Not only were the dogs all there on his forearm, but the room they were playing in had two pictures on the wall. One, of a hot French poodle stretched out seductively (or so I assume, I'm not really that into seductive French poodles). The other picture was The Last Supper! I laughed and laughed. I asked the waiter if his artist had giggled the entire time he was drawing it, and he said that the artist had to stop from time to time because he was laughing so much. The artist did The Last Supper free hand! It was only 2-3 inches wide, but still, that takes some serious artistry.
The rest of the day was less exciting than the tattoo, but not to bad. I wrote for awhile on my NaNoWriMo project (write a novel in 30 days), then Brian and I went to a couple of local parks that we hadn't visited yet. One of them has an aquatic center. I'm thinking about joining it and taking some classes. More on that later. The other park was a small lake with a path around it. We had the dogs with us and they tried to chase the ducks that hung out on one end of it. It was pretty funny, but we held on tight so no ducks for dinner for our canine buddies tonight.
As we left the lake, around 3:45, I was starving again. I asked Brian what we were planning on having for dinner and he said he wasn't hungry. Then he looked incredulously at me and asked, "Are you?" Like it was impossible for me to be hungry again almost 5 hours after we last ate. Really??!!
When we got home, Marty was leaving to go watch the opera, Salome. It is an excellent opera. We saw it a few years ago in Seattle. We wished Marty a good time, telling her to enjoy the naked dancing and the head on a platter. She promised that she would. It was a marvelous exit line.
For dinner, we had Trader Joe's veggie burritos. They are one of my favorite frozen foods from TJ's; nicely spiced and surprisingly filling for such a small item. Of course, my crazy hunger continued to rear its ugly head, so I made the rest of the Cougar Mountain chocolate chunk peanut butter cookies and had another scoop of chocolate sorbet. All told, between pancakes and cookies, this was not the best food day ever.
While eating dessert, we watched a British romantic comedy from a couple of years ago called Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. It is a smart and funny film that we saw when it first came out in the theaters. The cast is excellent with an especially brilliant role by Kristin Scott Thomas. If you get a chance, you should watch it. I give it two enthusiastic thumbs up.
Earlier I promised to talk a little more about the idea of joining the aquatic center. Well, with this challenge winding down, I'm feeling like I'll want something else to challenge me for awhile. Part of it is to keep the energy and focus going from this challenge, and part of it is to get myself to try new things. I'm really enjoying having a blog. As my sister said, it forces you to have a bit of accountability. She is mighty insightful. (Yeah, she also gently teased me about my use (overuse) of the word "mighty".) So, my goal over the next 8 weeks is to try something new each week. Some things I have in mind so far are: water aerobics, yoga, and guitar lessons. I'm not sure what the other 5 weeks will be. Hopefully, employment might be one of them.
That is all for today. Be happy and healthy!
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