Tom is the best.

AS IF YOU ALL DID NOT ALREADY KNOW THIS.

I just managed my way through a Church picnic while sticking to my fitness/nutrition challenge rules (mostly pale stuff). SO YAY for me.

Now to get the following things in in the remainder of the day:

exercise
stretching
meditation
wrangling the clutter a bit in my room

and also eating more, both now and at dinnertime, because while I managed to follow rules at the picnic, my stomach is growling for more food.

Scola left a travel mug of good tea with his doorman since he lives near the church.

SO THE BEST.

Tom, that was a lovely thing to do.

I went for a long run with my niece (it's so lovely to be able to do that!), and I painted the inside of one of my bookshelves, and I re-stained some of the back deck. Now I need to vacuum, bring the shelf inside, paint another one, and start bringing books inside so I can refill the shelves.

And get my toenails done.

Right, vacuuming. t forces self off couch

I'm still procrastinating my stupid work (although I've made some progress), but should also clean the bathroom. I have wasted so much time this weekend! But maybe I needed it? Also took my mother out for brunch (early Mother's Day) and had a nice visit with my father....

The energy you people have on weekends boggles me.

agrees with Connie.

Tom is awesome. That was a truly, truly thoughtful thing to do.

The energy you people have on weekends boggles me.

Well, I do waste a lot of time on weeknights. Although now that the days are longer, I should probably try to do some yard work on weeknights, even if it's just pruning or pulling weeds for half an hour, instead of flopping on the couch to watch Jon Stewart.

When I get home from work, all I want to do is flop, no matter how much daylight is left.

Oy. Vegan internet drama is ridiculous. There have been a whole bunch of books in the past few years advocating going vegan as a way to lose weight and get healthy, most of them also advocating no sugar, no oil, no processed foods, often no soy, no white flour, and a whole bunch of other things that these books claim will cure all your health problems and make you live until you're 120 or whatever. And now, in vegan food forums, just about any time that anyone posts a photo of delicious-looking food, it's met with a ton of, "That has tofu! Don't you know that tofu will destroy your fertility?" and "How can you possibly feed something containing SUGAR to your children?" and, my favorite, "Being vegan is about being healthy, so processed food like that is NOT vegan" comments. But I think this just hit a new level of ridic. VegNews magazine posted a photo of some vegan food they found at JazzFest -- a really yummy-looking Gambian dish with tofu and vegetables and peanut sauce, over rice. And, in addition to the usual comments about the tofu, someone posted that the vegetables look like they've been cooked until they're soft, and he only likes crispy vegetables, and therefore this photo is not at all appetizing, and they shouldn't post an unappetizing photo like that because it's not a good advertisement for veganism.