Thursday's Child

Date:                                 Thursday, August 26th, 2010
Word of the Day:                galore; in abundance; in yieldful amounts
Weight:                              227 pounds
Goal:                                  lose 100 pounds in one year duration
Pounds to lose:                  95 pounds
Waist Size:                        56.5 inches
Rowing Duration:               87 minutes, 59 seconds                                                             

Rowing on Cruella was difficult as it was tres windy last night, or early morning, depending on how you look at it. 

In any case, I expect the conditions to which I rowed were similar to that as if you were actually rowing on a lake, the wind kept blowing in my face, keeping it cool, and my face was sprayed with water being shot from the lake.  The only difference in being on my stationary rowing machine, also known as (aka) Cruella is that I wasn't wearing a life-jacket, and if you are rowing on a real lake, you should always wear a life-jacket, I don't care how good a boatsperson,  and swimmer you are.  I have all my lifesaving badges and awards in swimming, yet I know, it is still unsafe to be on the water, and on a boating machine, and not wear a life-jacket, so please heed my advice.  I really do know what I'm talking about in this regard, all the other subjects,  well, you be the judge.

Oh, my back was very sore so I decided to forego the second rowing session, I know, I know, I'm disappointed as well, but I'm hoping that I may squeeze it in later today, but, I doubt it, there are too many eyes watchng me.

I called my post Thursday's Child as I have been thinking of all the children that have been named after days of the week, and I can't think of one that is named Thursday.  Let's see, there is Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban's daughter, named Sunday Rose, Tuesday Weld, the actress most noted for making films in the sixties, the daughter on the Adams Family television show, and subsequent two movies, Wednesday, also from the television show, Dragnet, I believe there was a character named Joe Friday, although that is really a surname so it may not count, but, there you have it, all that is missing are children without the names of the days, Monday, Thursday, and Saturday.  If you know of any people with the names of Monday, Thursday, Saturday, do let me know.

The above paragraph got me to thinking on how names are chosen, what goes in it for you, do you name your children after your parents, or other relatives, the favourite uncle, etc., or do you specifically have favourite names in mind from your childhood,  please advise me as I am very interested.   If I ever had a daughter, I would like to call her Universe, as I've never met anyone with that name,  and I'm sure that she would be the only Universe on the block.

For the record, I am just joking about calling my kid Universe,  if I was so blessed to be given one.   I couldn't do that to the child, childhood is hard enough without having other kids taunt you about your name, no, I would settle on a nice normal name  like Bianca, Madeleine, or Lucina, but only if it was a girl!

All the time I am on Cruella, I keep an internal dialogue going on in my head, and I think of so many things that I want to write about, naturally, I am so elated to finish exercising, that I forget what I wanted to write about, and then you get, a blog/post such as this one.  Je regret.

It is after nine o'clock am. and it is still quite windy and cold outstide.  I'm wearing a sweater.  Winter doesn't look very happy today, I wonder if she knows that Emile and Argentina are leaving today, she always seems to know when people are leaving, I guess dogs really do have extra senses.  Wait until Winter learns that we are leaving on Saturday to go home to Toronto.  Yes, we have tickets to see the musical, 'South Pacific' and I am really looking forward to it; it has got excellent reviews, and everyone I know that has seen it,  says it is just excellent,  if there is still time left, and if you can get tickets, grab one!!!

I have to aplogize, my mind is just blank and there doesn't seem anything topical or relevant that I can say to you today, this makes two days in a row, I hope I haven't got myself into a slump.

Topics coming soon:

Riencarnation
The night they raided Minskys
Food, Glorious Food