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I woke up at 12:12 pm after sleeping for a good 13 hours.  First I had to take out the dog.  I ate a healthy breakfast of two grapefruits (my only grapefruits of the day!) and a whole wheat english muffin, one half with cream cheese and raspberry jam and the other half with cashew macademia butter.  It’s like peanut butter, but not with peanuts.

Next I covered myself in SPF 45 sunscreen and headed out to the pool.  I sunned myself for almost three hours while reading  Time and O: The Oprah Magazine.  Afterwards I showered and read more internets.

Steve came home and gave me half a Chipotle burrito, to which I added tomatoes and shredded cheese.  We took the dog for a walk.  I made brownies and we headed downstairs to watch the first four episodes of season 3 “Monk”.  Again the dog requested going out.  Now I am going to get ready for bed.  What a delightful day.

http://www.overheardintheoffice.com/archives/004183.html

 The title is just so clever.  “That’s where you come in - nickel washer!”  I never could have thought of that.  It’s brilliant.  Crude, yes, and so funny.  I’m not pasting the whole thing because I don’t usually swear, and it would feel weird to have cuss words on my blog.

A top-billed headline on cnn.com’s health page: “Most Americans don’t eat smart and exercise, CDC says”.  Brilliant investigative reporting!  This revelation will completely change the way I understand the culture of my country.  Wow.

I guess having survey data to back up that claim is new, or important, or something.  It seems only a seventh of the population exercises enough and eats enough fruits and vegetables.  (Grapefruits are fruits!  I’m golden!)

I don’t exercise enough, I know.  I’m pleased when I make it to the gym three times a week, and each gym session involves only 20-50 minutes riding the elliptical machine (usually in the 25-35 range) and a 10-15 minute stretching session.  That’s not enough to keep myself healthy or as slender as I would like.  Exercise has so many benefits.  There’s no good reason I don’t do it more often and with more enthusiasm.

I ate five today.  Two for breakfast, two for dinner, and one just now as an evening snack.

There was a young pregnant woman at the gym.  I passed her in the locker room and tried not to stare.  I also looked at myself in the mirror to confirm that I didn’t also appear pregnant (answer: debatable).  She looked like she was in her mid-twenties and maybe her 6th month.  She walked like a pregnant woman does, and her tank top was tight over an obvious baby bump.  I wonder if I’ll be exercising and taking good care of myself like that when I’m at the end of my second trimester.  Later on, I mean, if I ever do the whole pregnancy thing.  Now I’m just pregnant with grapefruits….

I just did a quick search for grapefruit cravings and many of the first hits were about pregnancy.  One of them, in fact, was about craving grapefruit and guacamole.  What did I eat tonight?  Grapefruit and guacamole.  And cheese.  Thank god for the cheese, otherwise I might have been pregnant.  Crisis averted.