Kick Start My Heart

Wake up: 6
Slept for: 6.5 hours
First thought is: I have so much to accomplish today—I am excited to do it. In retrospect, I don't think it was a whole-hearted sentiment, but rather an attempt to psych myself up for a long day of focus.
Baby is: On a great schedule. (How overused is the word "great" lately? Great is the new amazing—which is an interesting sign of the times. I wonder if the economy plays a part in the scale of hyperbole or if the words we use en masses are more random than that.)
This is: Great—though I know that every time you settle into a baby schedule, it changes.
Daughter is: Definitely handling all her big changes (camp for 6 or 7 hours), mastering potty training, sleeping through the night in her own bed, having a new baby in the house. It's so much on her and she really is doing well. It's such a commitment on our part—not that I am surprised by that, but still, lately too few people talk about how much discipline, follow-through, action and intention it takes to be a parent. It's certainly forcing us to be better and stronger people with better integrity of word and intention.
This is: Very cool (not just great). It feels good to be deconstructed (though it certainly did not after I had Scarlett and my whole world shifted) and reconstructed on a daily basis.
Man is: A deconstructer-reconstructer kind of guy. He's always seeking to better himself. It's sometimes annoying, but I know that when it annoys me, it means that I need to step it up.
This is: Annoying.
Emails to check: 30-something.
Goal for the day: Pay attention to what annoys me in other people, as I'm just seeing what annoys me about myself in them.
Kabbalah says: When you drop your great expectations of others, you more fully connect to the light.
First bananas thought: I am going to get a wind turbine for our house—which is really only a bananas thought because we can't be buying anything right now and not because we couldn't eventually have our own mini turbine.
Arrive at gym: Going tonight at 8.
Workout is: Going to be super fly.
Today's song is: Kickstart My Heart by Motley Crue
Best lyric is: Hmmmm... Sorry Nikki but the lyrics aren't so great called out. But they do rule as a whole piece.
Best spam subject line: Say No to Ed
I want: To stop biting my nails.
I love: Beck.
I wish: I had the new Beck album.
I am totally, majorly obsessing over: Effectively eliminating sugar from my diet. It's worse than fat, peeps.
Being a mom means: Being there (and really being present) for most dinner, bath, book, bed routines. And, man, is that ever tough to do some nights.
Being a wife means: Learning how to pick your battles. It's a good thing to learn for life, in general.
Being a business owner means: Seeing the big picture while your in the trenches of minutia.
Out of the mouths of babes: I want Daddy to read because he's kind and nice and he gives me food and he works and he works and he works.
Today I ate: Egg whites and vegetables with salsa (so easy—you can even used the prefabbed egg whites and frozen veggies, as long as they're organic and low sodium), fish and veg for lunch (it was a frozen meal thingy from Whole Foods), chicken and a small serving whole wheat pasta for dinner. Turkey slices and few cheat chips for snack. Oh, one spoonful of marmalade because I took my eye off the prize for a minute. Can't do that, folks. Just can't do it.
Today I drank: Lots of water.
Work was: A bit Groundhog's Day-ish.
Today I learned: When you recycle your bottles, you have to take the tops off or they won't be recycled.
I am: Back from the gym.
Tomorrow I will: Start again.