Splurge!
Mmmm, I love splurge days! Tonight I fixed hamburgers and hot dogs, and Jen and Erin fixed these amazing brownies (except I was the only one smart enough to also put peanut butter on mine!) Splurge days are great!
Of course, my weight will definately be up again tomorrow, but that’s part of the point. I think so far, from what little I can tell, my ‘roller-coaster’ strategy is working fairly well. And I always make sure and do my longest walks the night before I splurge, so that my metabolism is as high as possible that day.
I’m slowly plowing through my book list. Last night I finally finished Medea — the translation I have of it was a fairly slow read. It was translated into a very old english that made Shakespeare sound like Ebonics. By I started “The Frogs” by Aristophanes after that, and it’s awesome! Bacchus (god of the stage) is lamenting the loss of the great greek dramatists, Aeschylus, Euripedes, and Sophocles. I gather that it was quite contemporary when it was first performed, because Aristophanes was the last of the ‘big four’ tragedy writers, and the play really was written after the other three had died. Anyway, Bacchus, after enlisting the advice of Hercules (who had done it before), plans to enter Hades to bring Sophocles back to earth. Great stuff! The title, incidentally, comes from the chorus (which in Greek tradegy is basically another character / narrator), which consists of the frogs living in the river Styx, who Bacchus hears as Charon rows him across.