The Weekend and Some Random Updates

Here's the scoop:

I finished Nod yesterday.  It sucked.  Don't even bother - it had such promise and went nowhere quickly and stayed in nowhere-land through the end.

I started another book and it has good promise.  The Woman in Cabin 10 -- Ruth Ware.  I read the sample and bought the book.  Suspense genre and it reads easily.  Stay tuned ...

I was able to lift yesterday without incident 😛  Butt and posterior chain.  My legs are solidly tired today.  It feels good.  I plan to do a quick interval treadmill run just to stretch things out today and have a good sweat.  I'll go as hard as my legs let me.  I'm bagging lift class today because my arm is sore.  It's bugged me before and it's an overuse-like problem.  I didn't want to push it and I want to go to circuit class tomorrow.

The weekend is here.  It should be a good one even with the HOT, HUMID yucky weather.  We plan to hit the farmer's market and take the dogs to the lake to swim.  Laid back, lazy kind of weekend.  I'm looking forward to some hubby one-on-one time.

Hubby wants to keep Belle.  She's a gem, but not ours.  Funny, he was worried I'd adopt every dog ... and he's the softy!!  She's such a flirt with him and he's just enamored.  Men!!

Belle was giving me grief about eating, so I made rice, lean beef and pumpkin mix.  She gobbles it up.  Little stinker!  Now, if she'll only do a "better" poo, I'd stop worrying about her.  Her energy and HAPPY level are back up.  She's feeling better.  I want to try to leave her uncrated soon.  She's so well mannered.  I worry about my big, goofy dog knocking her over or stepping on her though.

I need to figure out some stuff to batch cook.  Nothing is inspiring me.  Maybe I'll check out some Instant Pot recipes.  I've only done the basics so far and it works like a charm.  I'm tempted to try the matcha blender drink this morning too.  It would be a good drink before the treadmill.  I hope I like it - the matcha is expensive.

Today is my eye exam.  I need stronger progressives.  Thank you middle-age.  The fun part is I'll get new frames too (from another store).  I see a shopping day in my future next week!  I want a darker, chunky frame.

Nothing else on the agenda.  I'm in better spirits so far this morning (i.e. I can think about the microwave without going to pieces - good lord).

I'm progressing on the going-back-to-work front.  Slowly, but steadily.  More on that later.

My INTENTION today is to keep the GOOD FEELING going -- however that happens.  It feels nice to feel less funky this morning.  I hope this is the start of the climb.  Later gators.