food: handful of granola for breakfast with chai tea. i am pretty sure i had a banana at some point. lunch was greek yogurt with strawberries & blueberries with granola sprinkled over. had a self-made iced coffee. leaving-work snack was a handful of granola (the stuff is ADDICTIVE i'm tellin' ya). dinner was shrimp fajitas at oceans grille and a corona with lime. and a bite of chris's key lime pie.
exercise: i actually went for a run right when i got home, even though it was hot! i went down to the beach and jogged for a while, even though it was high tide and therefore very hard to run because i didn't have any wet sand to run in. but i was beaming the whole time at all the sea turtle nests. sure, i couldn't see any baby sea turtles, but the point was that THEY WERE THERE. 55-min run. of course i started to get a headache afterwards, even though i felt good running. took some hopefully-preventative tylenol and aleve, but it got worse anyhow so i had to take the imitrex. i think it's time to call the doc! it seems i cannot do ANYTHING that involves me getting hot or i get a headache. and not running and avoiding the outdoors when it is hot is just NOT doable - it's florida, for chrissake.
anyway, we're going to do one of those sea-turtle hatching-watching walks this friday night. yay!
I'm Stacey. I'm a 31(!)-year-old Wisconsin girl living in sunny South Florida. The highlights in my life are my lovely boyfriend, my aloof cats, my adorable/adoring stepdogs, my two lumbering tortoises, select family members, being outside, being underwater, taking pictures, yadda yadda. Stay tuned for lots of babbling!
A small boy lived by the ocean. He loved the creatures of the sea, especially the starfish, and he spent much of his time exploring the seashore.
One day the boy learned there would be a minus tide that would leave the starfish stranded on the sand.
When the tide went out, he went down to the beach, began picking up the stranded starfish, and tossing them back into the ocean.
An elderly man who lived next door came down to the beach to see what the boy was doing. Seeing the man's quizzical expression, the boy paused as he approached. "I'm saving the starfish!" the boy proudly declared.
When the neighbor saw all of the stranded starfish he shook his head and said: "I'm sorry to disappoint you, young man, but if you look down the beach, there are stranded starfish as far as the eye can see. And if you look up the beach the other way, it's the same. One little boy like you isn't going to make much of a difference."
The boy thought about this for a moment. Then he reached his small hand down to the sand, picked up another starfish, tossed it out into the ocean, and said: "Well, I sure made a difference for that one!"
