Thurs 17 Oct

Still feeling a bit more tired than usual, probably from these 5-day work weeks! You get a little too used to frequent vacation interludes. Next currently scheduled time off isn't until Nov 14 for our annual Mpls trip. This year, we are doing the Thurs evening at a B&B in Hastings since Sofitel is always a tad more expensive on weeknights. The B&B has their smallest room for $99 on a weeknight including a marvelous breakfast. We will then switch to Sofitel for Fri/Sat nights where the rooms will then be about $93/night. I am looking at the possibility of a Green Bay overnight the weekend before with a Fri night at St Brendan's with wine tasting at Captain's Walk before and Sat dinner reservations at Cafe Chanson before heading home. Gave in to the siren song of emotional chocolate this afternoon after spending 1 hr 20 min in a jail holding cell meeting with one of my whiniest clients who just kept repeating a lot of things over and over. I needed him to sign a release form in order to do what he was asking me to do, but it took him probably 45 min to sign it. I was on the verge of picking up the unsigned form and buzzing to be let out when he finally signed it, but he still continued to repeat what he wanted me to do until the officer came to let us out and still for several minutes until I just walked out. Trust me, I needed chocolate. Food: 6:45 am 1 c Trader Joe's multigrain flaxseed cereal, 1/2 c light original soy milk, 1/2 grapefruit, coffee 10:30 am 2 strawberry Twizzlers 12:30 pm Light lemon nonfat yogurt, 2 slices cinnamon raisin toast w/margarine, 1/2 c acorn squash 4:15 pm Fun size M&Ms 5:45 pm 3.2 oz grilled pork chop, 5 roasted purple potato wedges, 1/2 c roasted beets, 12 oz skim milk Exercise: 4:50-5:35 am Jane Fonda Low-Impact Aerobics video