Health Trek Day 26

The scales were good to me last night. A small loss, but at least going in the right direction, down! Probably had the pounds freeze off yesterday. It sure is cold for October! We are getting ready to go on our camping vacation next week and ding dang it, I want an Indian summer. Don't you think we're entitled after our 3 week summer? So I am thinking warm thoughts and hoping for the best. We are spending part of the time at my Sister-in-laws house on Cape Cod so we can always go inside if we get cold.

I didn't go to the gym this morning as I am hostage to the LIST this morning. We have this check list we need to do before we go and as usual I have procrastinated all week so have to rush around today to get everything done. I also have to rehearse and memorize 4 songs before the Fall Rally tomorrow. All this and exercise too! I will try to fit in some yoga and my therapy while I clean, pack, do laundry and check and re-check the list. We are not leaving until Wednesday next week, but my husband always like to have everything done early and where he has to work, he'll want me to have my part done before the weekend so he can check and re-check to make sure I did it right and we have everything we need. We will most likely have enough paraphernalia to entertain the entire East coast by the time we hit the road.
How come having fun is so much work?
I hope I can come back from the vacation with a loss and not a gain. Perhaps the walking and sight seeing will take off the pounds I gain from eating out and at other people's houses. I resolve to make smart, healthy choices!
Have a wonderful weekend everyone, and remember to
ROCK ON!

Since we are going to visit family next week, I thought I would share a poem with you that was written on one of our family get gatherings. Perhaps you can relate....
Hallspeak
Whenever the Halls should congregate
Talk always results in a great debate
It's amazing what subjects will evolve
And all the problems they deign to solve
Topics expand like an ivy trail
Each opinion expressed in a raging gale
From a distance the noise seems quite absurd
All voices demanding to be heard
It seems that everyone talks in sync
Expounding to all just what they think
Not a thought goes to waste in each busy head
They pass through the lips without worry or dread
"But who is listening" I wondered one day
With so many talking, with so much to say
Then I perceived to my great surprise
An astounding feat right before my eyes
One who stated his wise verbation
answered a question without hesitation
added a thought to another topic
and didn't appear the least myopic
if Olympians awarded for tall stories told
then Hallspeak would surely bring home the gold!
JPH
Plan for today:
Breakfast: toast and tea, fruit cup
Snack: apple
Lunch: leftover beef stew
snack: pretzels
Dinner: pork chops, baked potato, spinach
Dessert: angel food cake with mandarin oranges and fresh raspberries
Kitchen closed!
Exercise:
Yoga, Mr. G's list and racing up and down stairs doing housework and packing,, yikes, look at the time, I had better get started!