Rose Hill

Rose Hill Cemetery - Confederate section.  Feb 6, 2011

Sorry for the time off.  Most of my days this past week have either been too boring or too exhausting to write an entry at the end.  I also haven't been falling asleep well, so I'm trying to get to bed early (so's I can lie there for longer).

I ditched practicing today and went cemeterying instead.  I have a cemetery habit.  Sometimes I take photos of graves that people have requested for genealogy websites, and sometimes I just take pictures.  Cemeteries are about the most peaceful places in civilized country.  I haven't gotten out much the last few months, because I've been busy and the weather's been bad.  Today I went to my favorites: Rose Hill Cemetery in Macon.  I also stopped by Riverside Cemetery, which is next-door to Rose Hill, to get some photo requests.  Riverside is pretty and interesting enough, but it's very organized and straightforward.  Rose Hill, on the other hand, is a mess.  It's old and crumbling, with rambling paths and overgrown crypts and beautiful views of the Ocmulgee river.  For about a year, I've been wandering and poking around Rose Hill with a camera, sometimes with a friend but most times alone.   Today was 55 and sunny, so I brought a snack and explored the Central Avenue division of the cemetery, then took a few shots of the confederate section.  I found half a dozen stones that people have requested on the Find-A-Grave website, and took a bunch of shots just for fun.



Rose Hill Cemetery
Feb 6, 2011

I've been doing sit-ups and crunches every day, usually in the evening before bed.  I settled into a general plan of trying to do more each day than I did the previous day.  For the sit-ups, that is.  For the crunches, I've been doing more, usually, sometimes staying the same and sometimes skipping a few.  Here's a rundown of the first 5 days of the month:

1st 20 situps, 20 crunches

2nd 20-21-10-10 (the last two numbers are oblique crunches on either side)

3rd 21-25-15-15

4th 23-25

5th 24-none (sue me, I was tired.)

total so far: 108 situps, 141 crunches of various types. 

Now I'm totally sick of typing the word crunches.  Oh- I lost another pound and a half this week.



Rose Hill Cemetery, Feb 6, 2011

 I haven't let dairy get back into my normal routine.  I'm still eating dairy-free ice cream every 2-3 days.  I did get an Amy's mushroom and olive pizza--they were on sale for $3.99 instead of 6.49--that had cheese on it.  It took me three days to finish it, so I didn't pig out on cheese.  Last night was probably the dairiest night so far, when I went out for Mexican and had enchiladas with cheese sauce.  I haven't suffered any physical repercussions, though I felt bloated and full on the drive home. 

I noticed something during No Dairy January that I forgot to write about here: when I got my period about 2/3 of the way through the month, I had almost no cramps.  In fact, it caught me a little by surprise because I normally get cramps about 24 hours in advance.  They aren't usually that bad, owing to the surgery I had a few years ago, but I do get them and this past month, I almost didn't.  This is the second time I'm going to refer to that surgery and then change the subject.  It's not that I don't want to talk about it, but it could be an entry by itself, so I'm going to postpone it and write a whole entry one of these days.

While wandering the bakery section at Kroger tonight, I glanced to the table where they display my favorite cookies, the buttery, rich Biscoffs.  Lo and behold, there's a new product:

It's a spread MADE FROM the cookies.  Since there wasn't a jar of it open for samples (sheesh, who would buy this stuff without tasting it first?!) I was FORCED to buy some and take it home. It's the consistency of peanut butter, with the flavor of Biscoff cookies.  The weight watchers points are slightly lower than my reduced-fat peanut butter, though it doesn't have the nutritional value that natural peanut butter has.  Still, I can't keep my spoon out of it tonight.