Following random footsteps

Random facts to share with you all....

• Since my last post (a month ago) I have been to the gym 4 times, 3 in the first week and today. Not good for those middle weeks but starting fresh today. My new goal is to get up and go to the gym before work. I know from previous experience that I can do this and can be consistent with it. Plus I feel more energized throughout the day. The previous plan of going after work is obviously not working because, frankly I haven't gone. But in general I always get home from work and want to make dinner or play with the dogs, so leaving home again to go get sweaty never seems appealing.
• Yesterday we joined Jacob's family in San Francisco for dinner to celebrate his Grandma Elia's 71st birthday. We were all supposed to meet at Crissy Field before dinner. Jacob and I went up early and ended up cutting over to the coast in Daly City and driving the "Great Highway" into the Presidio and to Crissy Field. It was a gorgeous day in the city and the coast was looking exciting and dangerous all bathed in white foam...
• I am not very skilled at the grill. Today I tried to bbq some chicken, but we ended up with chicken so black the carbon levels were probably toxic. Don't know how I could mess something so easy up in such a short amount of time.
• I actually made a menu plan for dinners this week and did my grocery shopping to suit the plan. Hopefully it will all work out and I will actually make dinner every night... its a pretty good plan I came up with.
• Zeus and Molly both love to "bake" in the sun and this weekend provided them a lot of opportunities for that.
• We've had really great weather for the last couple of days, but we've got more rain coming into town on Tuesday. Hard to know if spring is still here or if summer is coming soon.
• As you all know we love to go kayaking but Santa Clara County doesn't make it easy to go very often. They are still very concerned about the zebra mussel (a fresh water being) that has been introduced into their waterways. Now every time you want to launch a boat on County water you have to pay insane fees; launch fee, use fee and inspection fees. All adds up to over $20 (per boat) to put your plastic kayak in the water for a few hours. Definitely takes some wind out of the desire to go kayaking. Kayaking is supposed to be one of those hobbies were you make an investment in the gear and them have a low cost activity to do.
• Speaking of hobbies/activities... I am very interested to try my hand at decoupage. Something about it just sounds fun and like something artistic/crafty that I could easily do and enjoy the results from. I hope this week to go and pick up some books or magazines so I can read up more on the specific techniques.
• When Zeus sleeps, as he is doing in my lap now, he snores like crazy! His whiskers twitch and his teeth grind. Pretty cute but pretty noisy too. Here's a video of him snoring on his first day with us, way back when almost 4 months ago. He still snores like this. (Make sure your volume is up)
  

• Its now 11 pm and I've got to move the last load of laundry and then get to bed so the week starts off on the right foot!! Good night and have a great week!!