Everyday Systems

I was more successful than I expected to be. But I sure didn't have a perfect month.

Still, it was fun!

If I can drink sweet tea, you can have tea with cream!

You No Essers can pry my sweet, refrigerated ambrosia FROM MY COLD DEAD SOUTHERN HANDS.

It CAN be hard. I have the toughest time with remembering the difference between seis and siete toward the end when I'm getting tired, and every so often I go nuts and do forty-two of an easier move just for the counting, and I still find it hard to remember cuarenta.

There's an added bonus--if I ...

So today I did Timothy's Shovelglove 101 just to see if there was anything fun there that I could add, and it confirmed something I already knew: at just over five feet tall, I have hopelessly short arms!

I can't do his "bullroarer" at middle grip--I have to hold my shovelglove even farther from ...

I don't really walk much, mainly because I have nowhere to go. Since it's cooled off, though, I may walk or bike to the store more.

I just don't like walking in my usual uniform of jeans and a shirt that covers my shoulders to the store in the hot North Carolina sun! I STILL have reservations about ...

I'm in too! A full month of vanilla No S and Shovelglove!

I will NOT feel bad if I fail on either one once a week. For one, I have to be careful about my shoulder (it gives me trouble sometimes) and for another...well, I'm just being realistic about No S and my soda habit.

Halloween will be an S ...

Yep, just start on Monday! It'll be a new month and a new week, AND there will be an S-day (assuming you decide Halloween is an S-day!) waiting for you at the end of the month with candy corn and pumpkin-shaped Reese's cups!

Mmm, I like homemade soup and bread more than anything else!

That's why I don't make bread very much. I would just end up turning all my N-days red. :D

Soup is easier, though, since I have to heat it up.

I would like to make some bread, though. Maybe I'll make that my reward for clearing off all ...

I love my crock pot! My favorite thing to make in it is SOUP with all kinds of veggies!

In other news, tomorrow is a blood drive, so this is the perfect week for me to have started No S. I had a perfect day today, and tomorrow becomes an S day so I can have cookies and juice!

The S stands for ...

The Schweddy Balls flavor is a reference to an SNL skit: http://www.hulu.com/watch/4156/saturday ... eddy-balls

I have NOT seen any Schweddy Balls in a store, and I'm terribly disappointed.

Yeah, I need to figure out something consistent. That's my major problem.

Maybe I should really plan my weekly meals or something. That would also be handy for grocery shopping.

...to go with shovelglove.

One of my FIRST plans is to replace soda with tea. I don't consider tea a sweet, even if I put sugar in it, so. Also tea is good for me, from what I understand!

I'm just going to have to decide what to do about my meals. I don't eat breakfast in the morning; it takes me ...

I'll leave inane chatter with you! Even a minimal social aspect is always nice, and alas how quiet it is here.

Well, I'm glad you do it too, Reinhard.

I'm thinking of making up my verb charts again (maybe just irregular ones) and then repeating those instead of counting...but that's an awful lot of work if I'm not being graded on it!

Well, as it happens, I started doing Shovelglove a couple of years (maybe?) ago. But due to various things (including my own faults, I'm sure), I let it slip.

So now I'm starting again. I had gotten a six-pound sledgehammer for my weak self, and the day before yesterday, I jumped right in and did ...