Making Up For Yesterday

Most of today was spent frantically trying to make up for all the leisure time I took yesterday.  As much as I love (lovelovelove) the weekend, a good deal of it is spent working on homework and lesson plans (grading grading grading).  When I skip out for an entire day, I feel it.  And I have to make up for it.

But!  I did have a bit of fun.  M-Dawg and I went to the marvelous wonder that is the Pearl Street Farmer's Market.  I am a rock star because I spent a whopping total of $8 and got an entire carton of heirloom tomatoes, two cucumbers the size of kayaks, several fresh carrots, and a head of lettuce the size of a hubcap.  Score.

We are keeping up our tradition of eating a gourmet brunch every single time we get together.  Priorities.  Let me draw your attention to the pulled pork, green chili eggs benedict, topped with goat cheese.  There are no words.

As we walked through the neighborhoods back to the car, I saw this bird feeder made out of a license plate.  Isn't it cool?

And in my feeble attempt not to succumb to a 100% sedentary lifestyle, I have started grading papers, reading, doing homework, etc., on the treadmill.  I walk reallllly slowly, but tonight I burned 300 calories when ordinarily I would have been sitting on my arse.  So there's that.  When I'm feeling really hardcore I go all out on the stationary bike.  It nearly kills me.  All this to cancel out that &^%$# eggs benedict. 

Here's to getting up at 5:00 a.m. tomorrow so I can finish grading papers before my class.  I have learned my lesson about waiting until the last minute (i.e. the last 72 hours before handing them back) to start grading.  Never again.  I mean, never.