If you consider painting and clipping coupons a form of exercise….then I did exercise as planned. But I did not get up early, or anywhere near early. Roughly around 9 o’clock I stretched my way out of bed, literally. My feet planted firmly on the floor, yet every part of my body still on the bed, with my head resting on the pillow. I laid there thinking about all the exercise I was going to do today.
I was going to go biking. I was going to do a little kick boxing. Possibly try and squeeze in some lunges and chin ups. While I was at it, maybe swim a couple of laps around the pool. Considering I hadn’t done any of this, I figured I could add mowing the lawn, pulling weeds, shampooing the carpets and cleaning out the cars. Who would really know?
After all of my thoughtful exercise, I got up and went about my normal routine. Boring as it were, it is still tiring at times.
Trying to break routine, my ten year old and I started to paint a bookcase. The inside got painted, then the doorbell rang and off she went, outside to continue her normal routine of playing, yelling and swimming with the neighborhood children. I was a bit envious. Hmmmm. What can I do to break up my day?
Coupons. I have plenty of coupons. I even have a binder to put them in. I could put the coupons in my binder. OK. Good deal.
So I call Ms. Jess to come over and we’ll ‘coupon’ together. Couponing. That’s what we did. Needless to say, her binder is amazing. Organized, color coordinated and huge. Three inch, three ring binder stuffed with coupons.
My binder is…….empty. All my coupons are in Ziploc sandwich bags. They’re categorized with colored labels. Today I will have an amazing binder as well.
Shortly after noon we started going through our coupons. Swapping and trading coupons. She uses this and I don’t. She doesn’t eat this but I do. So we swap. Good, easy and fun. We’re having a great time. All the while, we’re talking about food.
(How is it anything I do tends to revolve around food? If I’m not eating it, then I’m talking about it.)
By the end of her visit, she’s still very organized. Everything nice and tidy. Me? Not so much. I look down and the whole table is covered with little piles of coupons. With which, I put back in the appropriately labeled sandwich bags, place the bags in my almost amazing binder and wait for another day.
By now, it’s time to rustle up some grub for the family. Sauté this, sprinkle with seasonings, mix in a little of that and put it over cooked thin spaghetti, Vwallah! Dinner is done!
Now, only if I could do that with my binder.
The plan I have set for tomorrow, get up early and exercise. Think I’ll use the WII. Maybe that will be a bit more motivational for me. Indoor exercise/video game style. I hear it’s all the rage. What makes it alluring for me?
I can do this in my pajamas.
Bed late again. Setting my alarm for ‘early’. We’ll see what tomorrow will bring.
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