Day 5: Frustration

This is Day 5 of the new journey, and it was a doozie. I failed to plan ahead for breakfast and lunch, so I grabbed a frozen chicken breast and some frozen veggies for lunch, and a hard-boiled egg and applesauce for breakfast. When I work (if you can call it that), I eat when my client eats. (Side bar: that is the first time I have used the term client, but I don't know what else to call her and it seems wierd). When I go to her house, I usually get her out of bed, make her breakfast, then eat mine with her. The same is true for lunch. However, this morning there was a bustle of activity to get the house ready for Thanksgiving, which included the carpet cleaner and the plumber. The carpet guy came before she was awake, and the plumber came just as he was leaving. She didn't want to get out of bed with the men in the house so we waited. So that meant that the first thing either one of us had to eat today was at noon.

Additional frustration came when I realized that because we had not eaten breakfast, we didn't take our medications either. And because the carpets were being cleaned the dining room table was in the kitchen and there wasn't really room to sit. So I put her in her recliner and fed her lunch there, then went into the kitchen to get my own.

The chicken was still frozen. I put it in the microwave to thaw/cook. I came out as hard as a rock. Not sure why, but I wasn't firing on all cylinders. So lunch became broccoli and applesauce.

As I was leaving work, I realized that I had also failed to plan ahead for dinner. Since Adam had to go to work tonight it needed to be quick and easy and it has become a routine to drive through fast food on my way home. So that's what I did. Dinner: Sonic Bacon Toaster Burger and onion rings.

Absolute failure of a day. I almost didn't post this, but I figured that was more to the point of this thing. If everyone is going to see my sucesses they should see the failures as well.

I am going to go put in an excercise DVD and plan out what I am doing tomorrow. It had better be good, cause we all know already that Thursday will be out the window.