Adventure

I had an adventurous day today.  After my PT appointment I thought I'd make great use of time and get my exercise walk in before going to work.  So I drove to a beautiful, shady neighborhood, Upper Arlington, and parked my car somewhere in the curvy streets.  I thought I was being strategic because I found a street with a sidewalk that ran forever (usual in that neighborhood).  I was in a huge hurry to get 2 miles in just in time for me to get to work for our stand up 10 minute meeting. 

I stayed on the sidewalk all the way down to a busy street I know (5th) and then had to turn and walk down 5th until I put in my 20 minutes one-way.  Then I turned around and walked back on that same sidewalk.  Only something wasn't the same.  After about a mile of coming back, when I should have been close to my car, the sidewalk ended.  Uh oh.  It wasn't supposed to do that.  So I went east another block and walked awhile.  Still nothing was familiar.  I reached for my phone with GPS.  No phone.  I left it in the car.  Great. 

After walking 3.5 miles, I found a wonderful elderly homeowner who was gardening and she took pity on me and drove me to find my car.  Luckily, I remembered some landmarks so she took me to the school with the tennis court and then we were good to go.  I played up the country bumpkin thing because it worked and kept us both in good spirits.  She thought I ought to stick to Pickerington.

So quite an adventure walk today.  And much longer than I expected.  I did 3.5 miles in 57:18 (a bit longer than my 40 minutes budgeted).  My miles were 15:22, 14:45, and 15:23.  I have no idea what the 5K was because by then I was much more focused on how I was going to find the yellow brick road.

After work, I went to Kohls for another adventure, this one not nearly as good natured, I'm afraid.  I am not exaggerating when I say that I tried on 40 bras.  Really.  Maybe more.  I took in 3 different band sizes and 3 different cup sizes and probably 10 different bra styles.  I tried on as many combinations of each that I could find.  Nothing worked.

So I went home and looked up how to measure for a bra.  I found several sites with a few different methods.  What I learned by reading and measuring and calculating and following instructions was that I'm a boy and don't need a bra.  I'm concave.  A negative number.  That was not very helpful. 

I decided that if I cheated on the numbers a little, I might fit into a pre-pubescent bra, so I went back to Kohls and finally found the one bra in the store that sort of worked.  I think the problem is really the shape.  Bras are kind of pointy and I'm just pancakey.  Square peg issue, I guess.

Day 24 of South Beach Diet:
Breakfast: 2 mini quiches from a South Beach Diet recipe and a V8
Lunch: spinach salad with lots of chicken and a dressing of sour cream and salsa
Snack. cheese stick and a few tiny turkey sausages
Dinner: pizza again - the low-carb version explained in an earlier post
Drinks: water all day