A Good Week

This week has gone by really fast. On Monday I made a goal to have a healthy breakfast every day this week. Now it’s Friday - I can’t believe it’s already my fifth breakfast! Time flies when you measure it in food!

This week has been really good, too. I could do with more weeks like this one. I feel like it has had a nice balance between productivity, personal growth, and wholesome activities. 

This week:

- I finished three books

- I am 111 days soda sober

- I learned how to make my mother-in-law’s potato salad (hers is my favorite)

Behold! Potato salad!

- I socialized (lunch with Christie, walk with Shannon who was in town from Idaho, and a phone call from my aunt Jo)

- I called and scheduled my annual physical with my GP (for some reason this always feels huge) (see you in August, Dr. G)

- I exercised every day

The photo I sent KoriAnn to prove I was at the gym. I may have been sitting still and playing on my phone, but whatever! I was there!

- I took Zoe to the doctor for a rash (deemed a virus)

- I got to skip Young Women (sometimes it’s really nice to have my Wednesday night) (Nicky had a theatre performance)

Nicky and Addie performing a scene from A Woman of No Importance. They’ll be competing at State this weekend.

- I was given an opportunity to provide service by doing something I am good at (I get to use Da Skills!!!) 

- I made an additional payment on our house (our goal is to have it paid off when Nicky graduates, but that means we have to push it a little bit) 

- My little spinach plants in the garden started popping up

What I didn’t do this week… clean my house. It’s not horrible, but it’s also not “company ready.” It’s “if I have fifteen minutes notice, I can fake it.” But I need to get it cleaner than that because I’m hosting book club tonight. 

I just really, really hate cleaning. 

Don’t get me wrong - I’m 100x more mentally stable, capable, and pleasant when I’m in a clean and organized environment. I just don’t like doing my part to make it happen. Especially if I’m making exercise a priority. Because I hate exercising too. Again, I’m 100x more mentally stable, capable, and pleasant when I exercise. But I don’t like doing it. So if I exercise during the day, I’m definitely not going to come home and clean afterward. Ew. 

So today, after I eat my fifth breakfast (of the week, not of the day, you silly! (though I do have those kind of days sometimes)) I will be cleaning and not exercising. Because I can only handle so much. 

Now… time for that breakfast…