An Exercise in Futility….

My ability to procrastinate is well developed. In college, I waited until three days before a twelve page English paper was due before I wrote my first draft. I pack on the morning of major trips because I do not want to spend time planning my outfits the night before. I have figured out exactly how long it takes me to get ready for work so that I can sleep as late as possible and still catch the bus—mind you this includes walking the dogs and eating breakfast (almost) every morning at home too.

It shouldn’t be a big surprise to you, dear reader, that I’ve not been training for the 10K. It’s on August 11 and I now have just about 40 days to get up to 6.2 miles. I tried to go running last night, but my calves were cramping so badly that I walked (the lesson learned here is that I need to stop wearing flip-flops). I performed my various crunches last night and stretched and massaged my calves when I returned home.

I had already been planning on doing something healthy every day, but yesterday’s pitiful outing only confirmed that this is long overdue. I’ll be saying “Auf Wiedersehen” to the bar and “Grüss Dich!” to the gym. “Tschuss” to fried food and lots of red meat and “Hallo” to fish and veggies.

I’ll be creating another page for the blog to track my healthy changes. I’m trying to be optimistic.

One side affect of being a CSA member and not having hubby here is that I run out of time to eat everything in a given week. I’ve been stock piling the vegetable matter in the freezer until I had free time to do something with it.

Over the last few weeks, I’ve priced out various compost bin options. Vermiculture was an option, but worms creep me out (I know, it’s ridiculous). Regular composting bins seemed rather expensive (this, this, and this are options over which I lusted). I wanted to do this without bringing more plastic into the house and spending a small fortune.

Concurrently, I discovered a great blog that satisfies the gardening bug I have right now. She has a post that describes how she made her own composting bin. Brilliant!! I remembered that we had a container that was about the right size for me to use to try it out. Here is what I did this afternoon:

I poured some water in the bin, put it the lid, and placed it on top of an inverted pot for air to circulate underneath it. I’ll keep you updated…

I finished my first week of the job.

I’m exhausted.
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