A Diet Pepsi and a Maple Bar - The Breakfast of Champions

Okay....KIDDING! I actually had my usual for breakfast. I'm kind of freaky about health, now. I think it comes with getting closer to 40. So every day I eat eggs and oatmeal for breakfast.

I am eating a maple bar with a Diet Pepsi right now, though - they're just a snack. Like that makes it healthier. It does help, though, that I spent an hour on the recumbent bike yesterday, so my butt and my hamstrings are killing me today. I always feel more excited about snacking on junk if my muscles are sore. Not sure where the logic in that is, but I'll roll with it.

I have a theory. Actually, I have lots of theories. But the theory I was thinking of is the one about what kind of day you're destined to have when you have a Diet Pepsi for breakfast. And since I eat the same thing for breakfast every day, I would count having a Diet Pepsi for breakfast if I had one before noon.

The day didn't start off well. It may be a "3 Diet Pepsi's" day, or maybe more. I really do try to limit my intake because I've noticed in the last year that I really start to swell when I drink soda.

On to a different topic, but I swear it ties in...... We got a dog yesterday. I'm not sure she's staying. She's a toy eskimo/chihuahua, so she looks like a mix between a coyote and a chihuahua. She's not cute. But she's really sweet. And very obedient.

And then she PEED on me this morning!!!!! I had just taken her outside to go to the bathroom, but apparently she wasn't done. I was so annoyed.

Matt's allergic to dogs, so the breeder that we adopted her from has agreed to give us a weekend trial to see if he has a problem with this dog. We're adopting a puppy from her in January - a wolf/malamute. That dog will primarily be an outside dog. But the little one we have now would be inside and I'm not sure getting a 2 year old dog is working. It's harder to train an older dog. And she's never worn a collar, so she hates that.

Anyhoo - I'm trying to adjust to the dog. But back to my morning - and the reason for my Diet Pepsi at 10 a.m. Tonight is the trunk or treat church activity. Primary is in charge of one of the booths, so I need to get the prizes for that. And Matt got an assignment to bring chili, so I had to run to the store this morning and get all the stuff and then make the chili so it can cook in the crockpot. (I have this pride thing when it comes to my chili - I have to make an effort because once, a long time ago, I won the chili cookoff. I still have the little plastic trophy with the sticker on it, announcing me the winner. Otherwise, I would have bought canned chili and just claimed it.)

So basically, I got up, took the dog outside, got peed on (after we came back inside), did the dishes, made my breakfast, ran to the store (with the kids), made chili, and now I'm drinking my Diet Pepsi and writing in my blog. I guess I should have picked up the candy for prizes today when I was at the store, but you know how it is when you have 3 kids with you at the store. You always forget something.

OH! I almost forgot to include a whining, crying child in my sob story. My 4 year old is now doing the fake wail. Earlier it was just whining, but now it's that "The world is coming to an end! Oh, poor me! Poor me! Waaaaaa!" fake cry. All because she has to clean her room. ANOTHER reason I'm drinking a Diet Pepsi before noon.

You'd think I was addicted to Diet Pepsi. I'm not. I just drink it to fight headaches. And this morning I was fighting one off early. :)