No longer a forgotten minority (64/100)

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Today I'm revelling in gluten free products. I don't mean the items that say gluten free even though there's no logical reason why they would have gluten – like fruit juice or popcorn. I'm excited about gluten free versions of food I love but have been without for the past eight years. This morning I made breakfast pizza on a gluten free pizza base. At the grocery store this afternoon I found pain au chocolat, crumpets, and cheese and bean burritos. It's not a daily struggle to live without crumpets or chocolatey croissants, but it will improve my mornings for a while as I eat my way through my newly stocked freezer.

Sweating out the bacon (59/100)

Today it's beautiful and sunny so we were fairly active. That meant being sweaty because it's hot and humid. First, we rode about 2.5km to RainbowWaterfall on clunky bikes hired from the resort. Then, after a swim and lunch, we had several table tennis matches. My husband and I were tied until it got too hot to keep score. This exercise was a tiny way toward working off the bacon from breakfast every day this week. It's going to be a shock when we get home and have to make our own bowl of muesli for breakfast, then bundle up to walk five minutes to the tram for work.

Taste of summer (38/100)

On a friend's recommendation I bought strawberries the other day. They were on sale, and she had eaten her punnet and told me they were delicious. We had ours on pancakes this morning and they were very juicy and flavourful. I don't expect that in fruit at this time of year. So tonight I'm grateful for yummy, red berries in Winter.

Oatmeal and internet radio (3/100)

I was in a good mood all day today and I think it was thanks to two things: my breakfast and listening to music most of the day. For breakfast I felt like cinnamon and brown sugar, but that's not a meal so I used oatmeal as my healthy, cinnamon-sugary delivery system. Then I started my work day by turning on Pandora Radio. I typed in my current favourite song, then listened to all sorts of similar music. Happily, because several students cancelled or turned up late, I was able to listen (and even sing and dance a little) while catching up on record keeping for most of the morning and at times throughout the afternoon. To top it all off, it's Friday and my husband and I have a special joint birthday-anniversary celebration planned this weekend (which will mean no blog-posting tomorrow).