The Girl Scouts aren't evil, just their cookies. We have 105 boxes (well, only 103 now) in our house, though only 10 are ours. And that's more than enough. I had this crazy idea that I'd be able to stick to eating one after lunch and one after dinner and that would be it. Ha! I ate 5 Samoas, 4 Thin Mints, at least one Lemonade -- maybe two -- and one or two Thanks-a-Lots. All yesterday. So I'm setting up ground rules. I can eat a cookie for every 15 minutes of exercise I do, and one for every full bottle of water I drink. The water is sort of a cop-out, because it takes so little time, but I don't drink enough water, and if I drink too much I start to feel gross, so it will put sort of an upper bound on the cookie eating.
Today I got out and hacked at the ice at the end of our driveway and down our sidewalk. I started out planning only to do 10 minutes -- just enough to clear a narrow path across the end of the driveway, because I've been worrying about the school kids walking on it -- but it went so successfully that I kept at it. I wound up clearing our entire sidewalk, except one smallish patch that is so solid the shovel wouldn't break through it, and I broke through to the portion the neighbors had barely cleared on one side, and I cleared a narrow path through the other neighbor's sidewalk mess all the way to the corner. So I did an hour of exercise today without meaning to! And I've had a bottle of water, so now I have five Girl Scout credits (GSCs) earned.
Lent is in ten days, so I have to earn all the GSCs I can before then!
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