It a beautiful Day in the Neighborhood... to get off your backside and do something!

Well, it was a lovely day in the beltway.  I made one last trip to IKEA while I still have a car.  Didn't need anything;just wandered.  Bought a bar to hang my kitchen utensils on.  Anything to get a couple more inches of counter space.

Wandering back to the flyover zone next weekend.  Its always weird to go back.  I love seeing everyone - but my weekend is always full of cleaning and errand running, doctors appointments, haircuts.  And flying back every two weekends or so it a $500/month expense. 

Going to drive back President's Day and leave the car.  I can't afford a re-occurring $100 ticket because I can't get it to pass inspection for DC.  I will just have to deal with buses and trains full time.  Maybe I can find someone to "Slug" some with.

Is always funny to we the way everyone freaks out when it snows here.  Now I know this week's was a doozy.  But I walked over to Safeway Thursday to get some ice and milk, and I though, hey I'll get me a Tasty Cake.  Nope, the Tasty Cakes were picked clean except the LCD (little chocolate donuts - that taste like plastic?)  So I also notice the thinning beer stock and envisioned people sitting around the house with a pound cake and some crumbles and knock back the Yling Ylings.  MMM - beer and fat pills - Breakfast of Champions.

Make fun of him as you will - Jack LaLanne died this week at 96.  And the dude was buff.  Say what you wish about him fashion sense, but it took pneumonia to fell him.  Not cancer; not a stroke; not heart disease.  After 56 years of marriage to the same woman.  A little germ felled him.  Show just how fragile these containers of ours are and how we should spend a little more time keeping them up.

So I am swearing back on to more fruit & veggies and keeping up the walking.  And maybe I can sweat off the 50 years of KitKats on my keister.  'Cause Jack said, its never too late to start.