June 17th, 2009
Did Something New Yesterday
I did a couple of things yesterday at work that I rarely do individually, and probably have never done together.
I packed a lunch and took a walk at work over the lunch hour.
Monday night was my birthday and I made dinner of T-Bone steak (I had the 4oz fillet part), grilled asparagus, chopped garbage salad and gazpacho. I actually have my own gazpacho recipe but since I was reminded of making this wonderful cold soup by the Pioneer Woman recently I went ahead and tried her recipe, although I omitted the sour cream. Not because I was being health conscious but because I forgot to buy it! Not used to buying sour cream when I make gazpacho.
Anyway, the meal was great and we had plenty of leftovers. I put the rest of the chopped salad into a container, filled a small mason jar with gazpacho and included a piece of birthday cake my wife made – and then I'll be darned if I didn't bring that meal to work yesterday. I really should do that more often. The salad was worse for the wear the next day, mostly because of the avocado, but it will tasted great. Sipping gazpacho out of a mason jar was a fun way to have soup. Only downside to bringing a lunch is taking home the dishes, but that's something I should be able to deal with.
I travel around to a number of different offices so I don't have this opportunity every day, but outside of my main office we have a lake with a walking path and yesterday I explored it for the first time. I ended up not walking around the entire thing as I didn't have enough time for that but I did end up getting a 30 minute walk in. Oh I forgot to mention, I actually brought running shoes to change into, so I was totally planning to do this. The problem is the shoes I grabbed were ones that have been sitting in my closet forever and there was something wrong with them that I didn't rmember and once I got into my walk I realized what it was – they cause blisters on my heals. So after the walk I pitched the shoes in the trash and will be buying another pair of my current running shoes to keep at work.
I sure felt the burn of the walk and because of the humidity it made the sweat even worse. I'm not used to working up a sweat in my work clothes, and frankly that shouldn't be happening in a 30 minute walk. But I can't let that scare me off – more walking means less sweat eventually!
I don't know that this is totally a new habit yet, but the fact I planned to walk by bringing shoes and then actually did it is a good sign. It will be an even better sign if I go through with buying the new shoes and keeping them at work.
Small incremental changes have helped me in the past and they will do so again.
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