I ran to the top of Waterdog Lake road today without stopping!  YIPPEE!!!  I totally thought that that goal would take me longer than 24 days to accomplish but I did it!!!  Now I just need to do it faster 🙂

Let’s rewind, shall we?  This morning Lu slept in until 9:45! What?!?!?!  She was a tired munchkin.  When she woke up she was HONGRY.  I got some apple and cheese in her STAT while I made oatmeal.

Daddy put on some cartoons (so he could get cuddles) and she watched for about 10 minutes.  She doesn’t get to see much tv-I’d say this is the first time this month. (He had just woken up too)

I made some apple oats for the 4 of us-the birdie always gets some oats:

Mine had peanut butter and pumpkin butter (YOM) on top:

Lu ended up bartering a trade.  She got about half of my oatmeal and I got her apples.

We finished breakfast at 10:30-Lu normally eats lunch at 11 but since she slept so late her schedule was all messed up.  We decided to go to Waterdog so that Shaun could ride his bike and I could run.  It was drizzling almost the entire time we were there, but it was nice.  As I was running up the hill I kept thinking “Wouldn’t it be cool if I get all the way up?”  I had left before Shaun (he had to get his bike ready) and when he caught up with me he said “You’ve run this whole way? Man that was fast.”  He was very proud of me when he heard that I ran all the way to the top.  It’s about 2 miles and I did it in 25 minutes-not too shabby!

When we got home I heated up the last of our leftovers for the week.  I made myself a salad with spinach, spelt, roasted root veggies, chicken, goat cheese, and some Annies Goddess mixed with balsamic.  I remembered yesterday that I can’t have cow’s milk but I can have goat and sheep!  YIPPEE!!!

I also had some sourdough with vegan spread.

Want a closer look?

I got that cheese yesterday at the farmer’s market-it’s form a cheese maker in Petaluma. Triple YOM.

Lu had the veggies and chicken with some raviolis sometimes I think I should just post her food 😉 :

“This ravioli? I EAT IT!”

After she went down for a nap, I went to Whole Foods.  I had a sample of some chips and salsa and some bread-nothing amazing.  I had a CRAVING for a cookie but got a square of dark chocolate at the register.  Whoever thought of that was GENIUS.

When I got home I made some tea for my new mug:

Isn’t it pretty? I have plans for some beet, apple, kale, and lemon juice when the munchkin wakes up.

On the menu for tonight?  Greek casserole.  Be on the look-out for a recipe.

Lastly, I’ve been really bothered by the whole Julie Powell discovery of yesterday. I’ll admit to reading a lot of her current blog this morning while Lu and Shaun slept.  In her book she came across so endearing. Not so much on her blog.  It got me thinking about blogging and narcissism.  You have to be somewhat narcissistic to have a blog.  To think that someone would be interested in your thoughts is inherently narcissistic.  There are definite degrees of narcissism though and I hope that I don’t fall on the super narcissistic side.  Just having that thought probably means that I do.

One of my favorite bloggers, the Yarn Harlot is on the lesser end of the narcissistic scale and she celebrated her sixth blogiversary yesterday.  She’s been blogging for six years.  She’s also written 7, seriously funny books and is just fabulous.  She’s never profited from her blog but instead has donated money to Doctor’s Without Borders and as of yesterday she has raised $1,000,110!!!  She’s awesome.