This is what my thermostat said this morning:

  I was freezing!  It didn’t help that Hadrian had OD’d on water last night and had me up at 4 AND 6 a.m. to pee.

  Because it’s Thursday and that’s the day I don’t go to gym until 9:45 for yoga, I could actually sleep past 6 a.m.  But no, not with Hadrian’s bladder.

  Anyway, I had a very ripe mango on the counter, so I’d been planning on making a smoothie in the morning for a light breakfast.  Not this morning!  I wanted to get warmer, not colder!

  So, I pulled a Kath and made oatmeal.

  I still wanted to use the mango, so I came up with a “tropical” theme of sorts.  I used rolled oats, a splash of OJ, milk, lowfat cottage cheese (for protein), half a banana, about a third of the mango, flax seeds and a little honey.  I threw in a bit of Jamaican Allspice as well.  I topped with just a bit of sweetened, shredded coconut.

  Yum!  It was a bit sweet and weird (there is a reason mango isn’t a favorite topping for oatmeal), but not bad at all.  It was a bit watery as well…maybe less milk next time?  It definitely kept me full until I had lunch around 12:30.

Thankfully, we have a break from the rain today AND tons of sunshine, so I’m planning on taking the pup for a nice long walk.  Other things on the agenda:

-a complete closet clean-out!  (my jeans are too big–yay!  scored FIVE pairs of size 8 pants at Goodwill today, and with the move coming up, I just want to PURGE all the old, worn-out stuff I’ve been hanging on to)

-errands: grocery store, Auto Zone (Andrew has to change my brake pads while he’s home this weekend), and the Fairborn city  offices to get our garage sale permit

-Bible study (I’m in two different ones, so I do Esther in the morning with coffee, and the other one with tea whenever I can fit it in!)

-the neighbor kids will be mowing/weed whacking our yard–thank goodness we have a break from the rain–it’s a jungle out there!