What better way to end a warm sunny day then with a nice barbecued supper! Yes… I barbecued supper myself last night. Normally I avoid the barbecue but ours is pretty easy. Just turn the gas on, turn the burners on and hit a button and it lights itself! I guess it’s not that impressive since a lot of them do that now. But I am used to the ones you have to turn the gas on and guess at how much you should give it before dropping a lit match into the barbecue and hope like hell that you don’t blow yourself, your house, or your friends, family and neighbors up! Those are the kind I am used to and I do not like them!

I cooked Pork sirloin chops and baked potatoes. And for once I didn’t just throw them on the grill and hope for the best. I actually brined them first and then added a dry rub I made with random spices. I don’t remember what I just grabbed what I thought would taste good and hoped for the best… see a pattern going on here?? I also did baked potatoes in foil. We picked up a garden salad mix and all in all it was a good supper and only took me about an hour and a half.

It was a nice way to spend my day off. I alternated between staying in the nice cool house. Which was cool until the sun went down then it started to feel like a sauna in there. The other night I made potatoes on the grill to go with hot dogs. I sliced up potatoes and added butter, garlic, dried onions, thyme and oregano and wrapped them in foil and threw them on the grill beside the hot dogs.

I haven’t gotten out walking a lot though. I need to go every night I think. I could either do longer walks every 2-3 nights or a shorter walk every night. I think I am going to go with the shorter walks, but still building up and going farther every day, as if I only do a few a week and make them longer then I keep making excuses for not wanting to go. If I get in the habit of every single night then once I get into the habit I will miss it when I don’t and therefor I will… Or that’s the plan anyway.

I made the mistake last night of looking into how much it would cost to join a gym (one with a pool) or other weight loss membership kinds of things. And I was surprised really surprised, at how much some of them cost! I was looking for Yoga classes or something like that as I don’t just want to loose weight but also tone and improve my flexibility as well. But it’s like $60 a month to join the YMCA (since when did they get so expensive?) or the local sportsplex. Yoga classes at a Yoga studio near me were like $200 for 5 classes plus another $100 for the initial consultation fee. I just can’t afford that so it looks like I am going at it alone.

Once we get the pool up I plan on swimming every day and going for a walk every day. Which I am hoping will be soon since we have summer-like weather already. Yesterday it went up to 33°C (91°F). Today is supposed to go to 20°C (68°F).  But it’s kinda overcast right now. We have to move the rest of our stuff this weekend but then next I hope to get started on where the pool is going so dad can order sand and gravel. And Keith can build a retaining wall to keep it from rolling down the hill since the backyard is not completely level and needs to be dug out on one side and filled on the other.

I can’t wait for the really warm weather since I am minutes from the ocean, actually at the bottom of my street there is a dock and cove we can swim in that is part of the ocean. But at the same time nice and sheltered. I plan on enjoying this summer! Even if I hate the thought of myself in a swim suit. Speaking of which I need a new one…

Anyone who knows me well, knows I can’t cook worth crap. I am one of those people who can burn a pot of water when I put it on to boil. I forget things. I forget I am cooking and that the pot of water that I put on to boil about 10 min ago is now boiled dry and the pot is turning brown. So what made me think that I could try and make french toast?

A misguided idea that since I watched someone do it and it looked easy enough that even I could do it, that maybe just maybe I could do it. Boy was I ever wrong! Cooking and me just don’t mix. After my second try. The first one I burned bad enough you could not tell it was bread soaked in eggs and cinnamon. The second try just kept falling apart on me. I swear french toast is evil!

So I decided to give it one last shot. And this time it seemed to be going good. Nice and brown on the outside and really smelling and looking like french toast. So I put it on my plate and I loaded it down with some syrup. Not too much, just enough! And I bit into it. And guess what? I bit into a pocket of uncooked egg! Yuck. It was all I could do to keep it down. I was gagging all the way to the washroom…

The moral of this story folks? If you can’t cook, don’t! All I got out of it was a seriously upset stomach and the urge to throw up. I guess April fools is on me. Didn’t even need any help on this one. Seriously though. At least I tried right? Your supposed to learn from your mistakes. I did. I wont ever try and make french toast on my own again.