6/16/07 11 pm

Okay, I've been slacking on actually listing food because I trust myself not to eat the truly empty calories at work, and it's boring. But I also need to start eating better in a positive, not just negative way, and if I find I'm reporting a lot of bagels for lunch during the work week that might actually get me to pack a lunch.

So here was today;

1 1/2 cheese blintzes, with cinnamon
banana
water
quinoa and lentils (leftover)
water
banana (another one)
baked ziti (leftover)
asparagus (leftover)
lemonade, lots (homemade w/sucanat=evaporated cane juice)

I spent about an hour or more in the middle of the day whacking weeds and then while A. and Z. were napping I went to the pool--because I told Jenny I would, so this blog is working, ha!

I think we made it to the Y once this academic year. And I barely managed 10 laps. I'm trying to remember when it was--possibly the window between Z. getting her cast off (Oct. 24, not that I was counting down or anything) and when the retail season kicked into high gear. So let's say the last time I went swimming was in November and I sucked.

I thought I'd be doing well to make it 10 laps today, first time in the pool, all that. I swam 22, the last two just to spite the woman who was sharing my lane (I am always harboring resentment towards strangers who share my lane. It's one of the personality faults I cherish most, since it led to one of the shining moments in my swim career, when I lapped this guy I'd just argued with about pool etiquette, passing him twice before he'd made it much more than halfway down his first length. He got out after that and left me the lane. I want to be in that kind of shape again.)

But back to that 22 laps--that's more than half a mile, first time out. I think I'll be up to a mile easily before the summer's too far along. My recent resolution about walking Z. more just paid off.

This pool is the Girl Scout camp pool, and it's about a ten minute drive out into the suburbs from our house. It backs up onto woods and we often see deer, rabbit and groundhogs when we're out there in the evening. Today was a perfect blue day and it was a real joy to see the sky up there under my arm when I turned to breathe. I'm really an outdoor swimmer, is the thing. I'm happiest in a freshwater lake or pond in New England, the one truly healthy thing about the summer camp I went to, but today was enough.