Did
Spend quality time with my trusty nebulizer
See Fantasticissma Bodyworker for an hour's fixin'
Keep a careful distance behind an acquaintance on the walk home
Nap
Read a crap book
Send a thoroughly codependent email to Coach
Visit the Corner o' Vice for some booze juice
Make awesome grub and burn it a little
Eat bananas!

Didn't
Take any more fish oil
Work on the book
Continue to ignore emails from my "MoM"
Cough up any actual pieces of my lungs
Feel guilty

Wednesday, January 4, 2011

Did
Spend a good part of the night awake and coughing
Sleep propped up
Read most of a Pals in Peril novel
Work on the book
Make a fatal fish oil error and suffer the consequences
Nap
Go to the gym
Get a welcome lift home with my backpack o' iced meat

Didn't
Go to work
Get to see Fantasticissima Bodyworker
Figure out the shoulder initiation for chin-ups
Work on the book very much
Make scintillating conversation
Throw up
Play with dogs

Did
Sleep 'til 10
Waste a lot of time on the intarwebs
Go a little nuts
Walk around the botanic garden
Lay on my back and watch the clouds move
Buy a coat
Have a Paleo fail at dinner (corn syrup in the tomato sauce)
Write a thank-you to our landlords for Christmas clementines

Didn't
Write
Quit the book, even though it seems hopeless
Figure out what my new job should be
Email ex-prof about PhD programs and/or job advice
See or talk to anyone
Quit the Paleo Challenge, even though it seems pointless
Wash the dishes

Monday, January 2, 2012

Did
Sleep almost until noon
Throw time down the internet hole
Finish the available episodes of Luther
Work on the book

Didn't
Go outside
Talk to anyone
Go entirely crazy
Lift anything
Remember to blog before bed

Did
Read more
Sleep more
Cough more
Get told by a Fairway employee that I am a "perfect bagger"
Watch more Luther
Think about doing a PhD
Start our Paleo New Year

Didn't
Write
Take any drastic steps
Play with any small boys
Un-trim the tree
Answer any phone calls
Make or break any resolutions

Did
Sleep late
Wake up sick
Take a three hour nap
Start reading about racism in architecture
Make Paleo Challenge plans
Lose twice at Mr. Jack
Watch a bunch of Luther

Didn't
Follow through on tentative New Year's plans
Sleep enough
Unpack
Do the grocery shopping
Go outside

December 24-30, 2011

Did
Spend a week in places with no internet access
Find myself continuously surrounded by boys less than waist high
Enact many, many gory deaths by Nerf weapons
Allow a 2 year old to change Husband's name to Sean
Have a real Xmas morning with kids under the age of 10
Get a little disgusted by the sheer number of their presents
Receive the best game ever and play it about twenty times
Witness a lot of unnecessary family drama
Successfully give away 250 cookies
See a family friend I haven't seen in a decade
Eat a lot of deliciously non-paleo junk
Remember that there are stars at night in cold, cold VT woods

Didn't
Get sick until the drive home
Have an appreciative audience for handstands
Work on the book
Blog
Do anything much other than play

Did
Wake up un-sick
Convince Husband to replace some damn lightbulbs
Get out the door by 11
Work on the book!
Allow an acquaintance to believe I was listening to music when really I just like wearing headphones to write
Mess around at the gym
Wrap about half the gifts
Indulge in cookies and beer

Didn't
Write very much
Play with dogs
Abjectly fail every time someone engaged me in conversation
Un-fuck my SI joint
Finish the wrapping
Bake anything
Buy anything
Connect with people

Did
Finish the shopping
Vow to bake only 5 types of cookies
End up with about 250 cookies
Clean a lot
Catch Husband's cold

Didn't
Go too crazy
Resist the suggestion to go the fuck outside
Take pictures for arty blog
Work on the book
Nap enough
See friends

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Did
Do the laundry
Bake 80 or so cookies
Glaze/frost cookies, with varying success
Go insane from too much sugar
Go to the gym
Exchange mushy love notes with coach
Watch the best South Park ever

Didn't
Finish the shopping
Wrap gifts
Get started on the next 4 kinds of cookies
Do very well at pistol practice
Stay to watch the total
Keep in touch about work stuff
Apply for new jobs
Work on the book

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Did
Engage in some overdue mobility torture
Celebrate my single annual shopping day
Make three cookie doughs
Realize people are still proud of me
Clean the kitchen
Wrap a bunch of presents
Overdose on "Chopped"
Get a sugar headache

Didn't
Go to work
Catch Husband's cold yet
Mess around with coconut flour
Write
Egg the double-parked car outside that led to all-day honking
Get a winter coat
Play with dogs

Did
Feel guilty about having loudly been proud of myself
Cry a little
Get over that stupidity
Procrastinate the HECK
Visit the Fairest of Ways
Create elaborate cookie plans
Set up Christmas
Waste hours and hours on teh intarwebs

Didn't
WORK ON THE BOOK
Do all the chores
Finish the shopping
Bake any of the cookies
Read
Go crazy yet
Leave the tree needles all over the floor

Did
Eat a LOT
Do some Christmas shopping
Remember what it's like to make people proud of me
Find out what I look like while lifting
Make a lot of cookie-based plans

Didn't
Lift anything that weighed more than 3lbs
Hit the downward slope of the soreness curve
Sleep enough
Finish the List
Stop grinning

Did
Weigh myself five or six times in three hours
Watch a little kid play 'chase the pigeon'
Spend six and a half hours in the gym
Set three new personal records
Make my last lift of the day
Drink beer
Talk to some people
Walk home in the very very cold

Didn't
Say the things I wish I had
Hear all the jokes I laughed at
Communicate my admiration for an incredible lifter without being rebuffed
Give up when it got hard
Care or even keep track of where I ended up in the rankings

Did
Go to my last 8-hour AutoCAD class
Get excited and then nervous about tomorrow
Reread a damn good book
Cook some excellent dinner
Feel like my life is unraveling

Didn't
Go to work
Go to the gym
Get to class on time
Fall asleep during the intro lecture on lighting cones and colors
Write
Get a dog