Vacation was glorious! Just want to share a few of my favorite shots.
- Cherry Ames and Princess Pea
- The Architect and DirtBike
- The Architect and Princess Pea
StS Challenge – Day 71 – A [not] Progress Report!
What? No progress report from Angela Pea?? Nope. Not last week, not this week.
Why? Because last report day I was caught up making a presentation then dashing to the airport to hop on a plane and catch up to my family, who had already left for a …wait for it….VACATION!!!! Thursday was report day, but I had another meeting to attend and missed WW. So Sunday it is.
I did okay with eating while at the beach…very mindful of portions, fried foods, drinks…but I didn’t get a whole lot of exercise, other than swimming, a few hours of kayaking, and the occasional lifting of my hand to turn the page of the book I was reading while lounging under a beach umbrella. I didn’t track a thing, just enjoyed the food I chose to eat and the few glasses of wine I chose to drink.
It was pure bliss. BLISS I tell you! This is the first vacation we’ve taken in five years, and I enjoyed every single moment of the absolute luxury of doing nothing. Nothing. We unplugged everything. No laptops were turned on, blackberries were turned off and left in the hotel safe, no iPhones in sight.
So…here’s my week in review.
- Tracking. Nope! None!
- Eat those Points. Yes! I’m pretty sure I ate all my points.
- Earn a minimum of 50 activity points a week. Seriously? Can I count points for napping under the beach umbrella? How about sand castle building? Chasing crabs on a dark beach? Diving for sand dollars?
- Blogging. Nada!
- No quitting? No brainer. I haven’t quit yet….I just took a week off.
- Supporting fellow challengers – I fully intend to hop over and visit everyone before Sunday. Really!
Have a wonderful week, everyone, and stay cool.
Seriously?
If you’ve seen or heard any sort of weather report in the last few weeks, you know it’s been a particularly hot summer for the midwest states. We’re still sweltering here in north central Texas, but thanks to Tropical Storm Dan swirling around down there in the Gulf of Mexico, we may not actually get to 100 today, only 99. Ninety Nine is still pretty darned miserable, and tomorrow is back to broiling, AND the predictions for next week are up to 110 and higher regular temperatures…with extra humidity thrown in for insult because of Dan. Dan couldn’t bring us clouds or rain, just humidity. Stupid Dan.
ONE day? Seriously?
Here’s my take. We’re already over-baked, and the entire state is drought stricken and dry as melba toast. Our lakes levels are quickly dropping, so pretty soon we’ll be fighting over water rights. The only thing going for us this summer is the idea that we may break all temperature records for all time! So why blow it for just one day that is still so hot and humid it’s ridiculous? If I were the official thermometer reader at the DFW station, I’d go out there, see 99.8 degrees as the official reading and think to myself “That’s close enough” and then write down an even 100.
Just because.
Keeping the Faith 
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