1.) The Dave Diet (not ACTUALLY a diet, just some soft "becoming healthy" suggestions)
2.) Quick overview of current life including what I ate for dinner.
3.) First World Problems Section (for just one second I promise)
4.) Addressing the Boston Marathon Bombing
1.) The Dave Diet- Today on the Dave Diet I am focusing on easy exercise, specifically dog walking. Dogs are a central part of most of our lives, and just like us they need exercise. if you decide to do something as committal as running with your dog (they won't judge you if you jog as fast as you walk), then start slow. I recently went to the vet for little Peanut and asked them about running since he tends to get distracted quite easily and he starts to lag after the first mile. They said to start just like you would for yourself. Don't run too hard and make sure you're walking them on cement before you're running them on cement. Your poochy loves you and thus, will follow you and your jogging to the end of the earth. This can cause the pads on their little paws to rub raw from the road or track. You most likely won't even notice until later because they won't say anything about it. Begin in small spurts, longer walks with small amounts of running during them. Eventually you can add in more running until you and your poochy and all your joints and muscles are all one big happy family. YOU CAN DO IT!
2.) Tonight I had interesting lentil soup for dinner. I guess the red lentils decinigrated pretty quickly, so it was basically just mush, but it was all healthy ingredients except the one table spoon of butter, and David didn't say anything about missing any ingredients, he even went back for seconds. This ladies and gentlemen, is called a win. here's what we did:
Ingredients:
-2 carrots in small cubes
-1 sliced chicken breast
-1 cut up onion
-2 sliced celery sticks
-1 tbsp. butter.
-1 carton of chicken broth
-3/4 C frozen corn
-1 small can tomato paste
-salt and pepper to taste
-garlic powder
Directions:
1.) melt the butter and saute the onions. Once they are done enough, add the celery, carrots, and chicken. season everything, and cook with a lid on it until the chicken looks like it won't make you puke if you lick it.
2.) add Tomato Paste and coat everything.
3.) add corn, broth, and 1 C rinsed red lentils (ok, I won't lie, we didn't rinse ours. maybe this is the secret step, but we didn't have room in our sink).
4.) Bring everything to a boil and then simmer. After about 30 minutes, I smelled something funny and so we went to check on it. It was the consistency of mashed potatoes (we had not yet added the whole carton of broth yet). At that point, we officially decided that if it didn't turn out, then it was cheap mexican restaurant night where they give you free chips and don't sell alcohol so it actually ends up being very reasonably priced. So we added the other half of the broth and let it cook very low for the last 35 minutes.
Then I tried it and burnt my tongue, but David said it was good. He said that he would probably eat the soup again and that he liked it. he may have been using his " you try really hard to give us easy healthy food so I'll eat what you pick to cook" voice, but I'll take it. There's no pictures because the lentil soaked up all the rest of the liquid so now it looks gross, but I swear it was tasty.
3.) First world problems. TODAY, I was sent a mass email being told that I could send my monetary contribution for the regional manager's birthday gift through inner-office mail. I make the least amount of money in the whole company, I am literally the lowest position that can be held in the company. I have spoken with the regional manager, he is a very nice and wonderful man, but unfortunately, no matter how much I like someone, if you ask me to make an unexpected donation three days before I get paid when you KNOW how much I get paid, then you should not expect very much from me. About 30 minutes later, I received a mass email notifying me that his gift had been changed from a gift card to a apple product starting with an "i" that literally costs more than any pay check I have ever received from this company. I have 2 things to say about this and then I will move on to things that actually matter in this world. 1.) If I'm going to use up money on any apple product, it's going to be for me. my phone is going to the crapper. 2.) I really appreciate acknowledging someone's hard work and dedication to their job and I think it's wonderful that someone has decided to get him a $600 gift when all the people at my level get is an email BUT I will admit that I am mildly insulted that I was sent an email of expectation of donation for a product that costs more than my pay check- aka my livelihood. If I did not pay into this gift, my money would be going towards food, dog expenses, rent, or utilities. I have decided that instead, I am going to take the money asked of me, and once I get paid and have funds available, donate a bit in his name, and send him a card letting him know that I have done so. So that's the end of that.
4.) Addressing the Boston Marathon Bombing- First off, if you saw my Facebook Status today, this will be redundant for a few seconds, then you know my first and most shocked reaction. I recently decided to get a USA Today application on my iPhone because I was tired of having the least interesting topics of conversation in the apartment. I accidentally turned on phone notifications which means that if there is breaking news, it lights up my phone whether I'm using it or not. So today, not ten minutes after the bombing occurred, I had a notification that this event had taken place. It was just the craziest thing to me that people were still fleeing the scene, I'm sure a majority of the runners still had no idea that anything had happened, and how many hundreds of miles away, I was sitting at work, reading about a bombing on my cell phone. It simply blew my mind. I continued to get a few more updates to my phone as news of numbers of casualties and such continued to come out. I got the information so immediately that there were ZERO articles anywhere on the internet yet to be written about the even longer than two or three lines composed mainly of quotes from twitter of actually first person experiences.
I haven't decided whether this fact is a positive or negative one yet, and I think that's why it is sticking with me. I think that right now, the most important thing is that I am aware of the type of information that comes to me, the velocity at which it travels in mere minutes, and the way that I am receiving things.
As I read the notification out loud, I felt like it would probably be something very big I mean, these things happen in Criminal Minds, not real life. I felt as though I would simply switch to the internet on my phone and suddenly be surrounded with information, first hand accounts, analysis, and photographs, interviews telling heroic stories. But I had learned of the event so fast, that there was nothing. People were fleeing the scene as I was reading about it from the safety of Central Pennsylvania. I've never been put in that position before. There was no safety net of information to catch me and bring my shock back to reality.
I will continue to digest what has happened and pray for the victims. I hope they find whomever they are looking for.
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