Sat 7 Dec

Looking forward to the cooking class at Rockman's this Tuesday - we will be learning fancy garnishing and display techniques to create a pretty appetizer buffet. Not a skill we'll likely often use, but fun. And the Rockman's staff will be preparing some nice dinner entrees to include with the sit-down, eating portion of the evening so we don't have to be satisfied with a few appetizers. Today we head out soon to Amherst for the Jensen Center sale and accompanying bake/craft sales at area churches. Today is not shaping up to be one of the healthy days. After running around Amherst buying cookies and yummy goodies, we went to the Wheel House in Waupaca for delicious pizza (and beer). Back home involves some sampling of above-mentioned goodies, and I don't suspect I will have time to fit in a workout before we leave around 5ish for the choir concert. Gulp! BTW, started a good book last night that I picked up at the library, called something like the Physick Book of Deliverance Dane. The protagonist is a young woman and opens during her orals to be accepted as a Ph.D. candidate in history at Harvard. Reading her feelings and fears as the exam was nearing the end (about 3.5 hours in), really gave me an appreciation for what you went through last year. I didn't really understand how grueling and emotionally draining that experience would be, never having done anything remotely like it. I felt very close to you in reading about what it's really like. Incidentally, the character finished with her professors saying she did better than anyone they'd examined in years even though she was worried she had failed. Really reminded me of you! Food: 7:30 am Laura's oatmeal w/flaxseed meal, protein powder, 1/2 c blueberries, 19 g blackberries, soy milk, 1/2 grapefruit, coffee 12:45 pm Wheel house sausage/mushroom/tomato pizza, 16 oz Mud Puppy Porter 2:45 pm Cookie, popcorn ball