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I weighed in this morning and found that I had indeed lost some weight despite three days without intentional exercise.



And that brings me to a landmark in my journey...

( Don't leave me in suspenders, Willis! )

Now, to celebrate... does anyone know how to deep-fry Reese's Peanut Butter Cups?

Today's exercise: riding my bicycle to campus to take the recyclables to the bins without using gasoline. I only live about a mile from campus. No big deal, right?

( 2005: A Bike Odyssey )

Still, I'm proud of myself for doing this, and I'll bet not a bit of my three eggs, two string cheeses, and toast will be left on me by the time I get home. And the longer I stick with a reasonably challenging exercise plan, the easier this will get.

I got home a couple hours after dawn Saturday and slept until 12:15pm, when my co-worker called to say she needed me to drive back to the office to do a few more things. I did it, and got home around 3pm, and had a nice shower before having the rest of the day together. We got some beading supplies (25m of 0.5mm elastic and various clasps) and some nice shoes, then went to Barnes and Noble to get a copy of The Elements of Style. Somehow a revised edition of a classic seems a bit silly, but then The Message is my favorite Bible edition, so who am I to talk?

Sunday morning I made breakfast from scratch: piña colada waffles with butter-rum brown sugar syrup (from Alton Brown's I'm Just Here For More Food, my anniversary gift). I'm sure traditionalists will say that using tinned pineapple and boughten butter is not From Scratch. I'm sure you can guess my response. It was yummy. We spread the leftover drained crushed pineapple over the waffles before adding the syrup, and I was surprised that there were two waffles left over. Well, since I'm trying to avoid refined flour and eat more veggies, this is perhaps not too surprising.

Flash back to Friday afternoon, when my doctor said that I should try to raise my 'good' cholesterol. She suggested salmon, and I said that I'd gladly give up my 15-year habit of being a lacto-ovo vegetarian if that were her professional advice, but she said that I shouldn't have to do that. So I did a little research and found that apparently flax and almonds are also good sources of omega-3 fatty acids, which raise 'good' cholesterol. I'm going to see if I can get a consultation with a nutritionist who knows about vegetarians, though, and see what else I can learn.

I helped Jodi with her research by doing a bit of library legwork. I found some good articles and books about belief (as an epistemological concept -- what does it mean to say that you believe something, and to what extent can you resolve to believe something or accept a statement you'd been doubting?). The rest is up to her.

Not a bad anniversary weekend. Would have preferred to not have my sleep schedule thrown gobbledy-wicket by an 11pm-8am shift, but wouldn't we all?