Wow, has it really been this long since I posted a blog about the apple eating resolution? Sorry, I’ve been good at photographing them, but not as good at blogging about them. I’m running about 10 apples behind my 365 apples in 2009 schedule so I need to do some doubling up in the next week or two. Here’s what you’ve missed. In reverse order, here we go:
Apples 137 and 138 were eaten as I waited impatiently for my elliptical machine to be delivered. The UPS freight delivery guy was in a grumpy mood by the time he got to my house. They had loaded his truck backwards, putting the first deliveries in the front of the truck, so he had to unload everything to get to the right stuff. My elliptical weighed 231 pounds. The truck had no ramp and no dolly so he had to slide it off the truck. He luckily saw a dolly in a neighbor’s garage so he was able to borrow that. Otherwise, I have no idea how we would have gotten it up my drive. Our street is really narrow and they were doing construction at the end of the block. This meant he had to back down the street in order to get out. I felt sad for him. He hates the fitness company I bought my elliptical from. They don’t bother with delivery logistics and since their customers are mostly residential folks, they expect UPS to bring their giant fitness machines in their houses for them (I didn’t). Poor guy, sorry!
I bought my elliptical before I had figured out where I would put it. It’s too tall to go in the basement, the garage is no good because there’s poor circulation and a lot of the time (I’m hoping) it’s going to smell like paint fumes. So, the only option was my office. I moved around my chair and sewing table while eating apple 136 and unpacked some more boxes. I wrote this for apple 136:
Determination. I can make art, I can take classes, I can keep a regular exercise schedule. I can get my work done and spend more time in the studio. I can train my dog to be well behaved around other people and animals. This apple is a promise to myself that all of these things can happen if I just keep trying. I’m clearing a space for my foolish exercise equipment purchase. I will prove to myself that it wasn’t a foolish purchase, I will use it and I will lose the tire. I will meditate while burning off the weight.
I ate apple 135 while doing some drawing.
I was given this apple for free by the checker at Safeway who simultaneously passive aggressively scolded me for not putting my produce in Earth destroying plastic bags. She said they are hard to handle when they are loose like that. Maybe she hoped she was killing me with kindness for letting me have an apple for free even though she clearly blamed me for it’s fall.
Apples 134 and 133 were eaten as I obsessed over the Oregon Humane Society photo contest. I’ve been taking photos of Mississippi left and right. If I win, I get a new camera. I also started eating apples two by two because I realized I’m falling behind.
Mississippi and I did some pruning in the backyard and I got a lovely vase full of Japanese maple branches. I ate apple 132 feeling very pleased with my new decoration.
Apple 131, Mississippi is in boarding for the day and we open the drapes to finally let some light in. Our house has felt like a cave.
Apple 130, I’ve been borrowing all the dooks and videos about dog training from the Sellwood library. Keeping my dream alive of one day having a happy, well adjusted dog.
I ate apple 129 while supervising Mississippi in the backyard, hoping she doesn’t eat all my beautiful plants.