Well, friends, I had the most unassumingly awesome day ever today. No big to-dos, no great expectations; everything was just better than usual.
I went to the gym this morning, planning to do 2.5 miles, but when I reached 2.5, another .6 didn’t seem like a big deal, so I managed a full 5k without even planning to. It was really tough to start running again after my ankle healed and to feel as though I’d lost all the progress I’d made in November and December. So it’s nice to feel like I’m almost back to where I was, only two and a half weeks later.
Then I had a blueberry Luna bar, which I hadn’t tried before, and it was surprisingly good. Extremely sweet, but tasty. I haven’t been buying these lately, but the fruity flavors are actually decent (versus the chocolate-y ones, which I think are fairly awful). I’m still waiting for my local shops to start carrying the Luna Protein bars, though. That cookie dough one is awesome.
After finishing the print files for one book and making good progress proofing another, I met Alex at the Perkins in Seward for dinner. Breakfast for dinner. Perkins is generally alright as far as breakfast food goes, but this was an exceptional meal — everything seemed freshly and carefully made. So even though the photo I took is terrible (point-and-shoot in bad light), I’ll still use it for this post. I had an Egg Beaters omelet with spinach and asparagus, one pancake, and the crunchy top bit of the hashbrowns.
Since Alex will soon be freelance, and I’m trying to gear myself up for more projects, I wanted to bounce some ideas off her. I think we spent 10% of the time talking about that stuff, 35% of the time talking about our imaginary office (you guys, it would/will be out of control), and 55% of the time talking about syrup dispensers (of the unicorn-shaped variety). I don’t think anybody could possibly think that we’re as funny as we seem to find ourselves, but everybody needs a friend to crack up in Perkins with. So that was an unexpectedly delightful evening.
And I stopped at the co-op and bought a new box of Yorkshire Gold (tea), so tomorrow is looking to be a great day, too. Simple pleasures.
Three cheers for Perkins!!! I was flabbergasted at the quality of those pancakes. Flabber. Gasted.
Sorry we spent so much time talking about hypothetical glitter-syrup in unicorn squeeze bottles (instead of your admirable & excellent freelance ventures). I promise to stay “on topic” next time! But I blame the pancakes. They made me too happy.
Yorkshire Gold makes life worth living!
Have you had Clif bars? There’s a key lime one I’m fairly fond of. And I’m pretty sure I would be up for discussing unicorn shaped syrup dispensers in Perkins if I didn’t live all the darn way over here! ARGH. I want to be friends with Alex (and you, but we are already friends, so).