I fail at hooping, but I'm growing two little tomatoes!

So I got up this morning, donned one of the ugliest pairs of sneakers ever made and headed out to walk. There's something wrong about it being 73F degrees with a heat index of 77F at 6am but it's better than what it will be in a few hours so... I walked. Because of the last five days of laziness (combined with the humidity, ugh!) I only walked the 0.4 mile instead of the 0.5 mile. Still, I walked.

Got back, grabbed my only half-wrapped hoop and wandered out back (since I'm not allowed to play with it inside). I suppose the hoop going around once or twice before hitting the ground then me having to bend over and pick it up so I can repeat the process is some form of exercise, right? A. says it is. Either way, I think I sweated more while trying to hoop than I did while walking. I know I was humiliated more. I know there was a time I could make the hoop go all the way around me and keep it going for like... a while. Of course, I was K.'s age...

After I decided I'd had enough hoop humiliation for a few hours, I looked at my little plants and watered them and noticed that one of the tomato plants has two little green balls on it. I'm growing tomatoes!! Hopefully they'll get bigger and redder, and the birds won't get them.

It's pushing 7am so I need to clear the table and get breakfast started.

Blue skies and rainbows,

Menu - May 11 - 17, 2008

Mercy. Making this week's menu was tough. A.'s birthday is Tuesday. I'm supposed to go shopping with my mother on Wednesday and A. may have some big two-hour test to deal with in the evening. On Thursday evening K. has an orchestra concert to perform in which really messes with that night because she has to be back at school one hour after she gets home. Saturday we're going out of town to a sort of baby shower bar-b-que thing for one of my cousins and I have no clue when we'll get home.

In other news, K. and I have caught the hooping bug. We spent part of this weekend hunting down materials and having A. make us hoops. Mine is too large to use inside the apartment but I'm not sure about K.'s. I'll probably try it out one morning after they leave.

We also scored me some of the ugliest sneakers ever made. Ugly, but pretty comfortable. There's no way I'll EVER confuse them with my everyday wear shoes... which I also need a new pair of. Now if I can just find clothes...

Anyway, I need to be getting to bed so that I can get up at 5am to go walk in those ugly shoes. It'll still be dark at 6am so it really won't matter. No one will see them because there will be no one around, and if there does happen to be someone around, it'll be too dark for them to see the ugly shoes.

As always, much gratitude for Laura at I'm an Organizing Junkie for hosting Menu Plan Monday.

Sunday
breakfast: french toast
lunch: leftovers
dinner: foraging

Monday
breakfast: scrambled eggs, grits, hash browns
lunch: tuna, orange
dinner: stir-fried round steak, baked potatoes, green peas
extra cooking: flat-bread

Tuesday
breakfast: cereal, toast, OJ
lunch: leftovers
dinner: pot roast (crock pot), broccoli

Wednesday
breakfast: quick cinnamon rolls
lunch: ?? shopping with mom
dinner: pasta

Thursday
breakfast: french toast
lunch: chicken patties (this recipe made with chicken), orange
dinner: fast food after orchestra concert

Friday
breakfast: eggs, grits, hashbrowns, toast
lunch: ???
dinner: sheppard's pie

Saturday
breakfast: waffles
lunch: --- BABY BBQ ---
dinner: foraging on leftovers