Wednesday Journal

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Wednesday Journal
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Wed, 11-23-2005 - 8:07am

Happy Thanksgiving Eve! :)

My early morning client cancelled today which is kind of a bummer, but also kind of nice. I'll be headed to the gym to do back/biceps + cardio. One client this afternoon and then I'm work-free until Saturday.

I had fun climbing yesterday. My goal was to do 5 climbs although I didn't finish the last two (endurance just gave out). Incidentally, on the last two, I tried to follow the marked trails which is a heck of a lot harder than just putting your hands and feet whereever you can. I think it was easier than last time, although I had to choke back my fear of heights. By the 3rd climb, I was doing okay. I just have a heck of a time resting my hands and feet on those little tiny "rocks."

Breakfast: scrambled eggs

Snack: protein shake

Lunch: chicken burrito, apple and peanut butter

Snack: carrots and peanut butter hummus

Dinner: tofu and veggies in peanut sauce

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Wed, 11-23-2005 - 8:15am

HI Gymrat!

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Wed, 11-23-2005 - 8:21am

That sounds like fun!






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Wed, 11-23-2005 - 8:41am

Thank you! Although, really, there's nothing to be impressed about other than the fact that I did it. We went to the rock climbing gym that my husband goes to 2x a week. He's gotten so good! He looks like Spiderman climbing up the walls. Just like when you go bowling, you rent shoes and the shoes are very tight fitting sneakers.

I have never been climbing outside and neither has DH but he gets his chance this weekend. I paid for a climbing trip for him and his best friend to go on a guided climb that is specifically to transition from indoor to outdoor climbing. That was my gift to him for taking such good care of me over the summer. :)

Thanks on the food long... looking at it, I realized I'll be getting a lot of nuts today. May have to modify that a bit. :)

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Wed, 11-23-2005 - 9:48am

what about ditching thanksgiving altogether and being thankful for our troops and fellow gym rats all year long?

i hadn't heard that about the thanksgiving/god connection but i'm all for not mentioning thanksgiving in schools, at least unless you are going to also teach the children about factory farming of turkeys, american imperialism, and native american genocide.

not to mention the fact that the date of thanksgiving was chosen to encourage christmas shopping. people always criticize valentine's day for being such a commercial holiday, but as commerical as it is (and i love it anyway), thanksgiving is at least as commercial as valentine's day.

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Wed, 11-23-2005 - 9:49am
i'm very excited that it's clementine season again!
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Wed, 11-23-2005 - 10:03am

Thanks alot Jen.

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Wed, 11-23-2005 - 10:36am

why won't they get the full story? they SHOULD. that's what school is supposed to be for, teaching actual historic facts, not promoting pilgrim propaganda or putting a happy face on WWII. that's what i pay my tax dollars for, not for sweatshop-made cardboard happy turkeys to hang on the classroom walls.

my problem with thanksgiving gorging isn't that animals are being killed. you are right, animals are killed all the time, and it doesn't make any difference to me if they are killed on christmas or the fourth of july or the tenth of february. the problem with thanksgiving is that how do you rationally connect gorging yourself with being thankful? you already have so much to be thankful for, so how do you celebrate it? by being gluttonous? "we have so much to be thankful for, so in honor of that, let's consume an even more disproportionate percentage of the world's resources than we usually do! we have so much, so let's grab even more!!" it doesn't make rational sense.

plus, no other holiday fetishizes the murdered creature being eaten like thanksgiving. no one pardons a christmas pig and then sends it to disney world to be the grand marshall of the christmas parade. no one tacks up cardboard cut-outs of cartoon hotdogs on classroom walls around the fourth of july. it's insanity how people simultaneously fetishize turkeys and mass murder them on thanksgiving.




Edited 11/23/2005 10:38 am ET by jenindc
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Wed, 11-23-2005 - 10:46am

by the way, i did some research and those maryland schools in question do not avoid mentioning thanksgiving. they do celebrate thanksgiving as a secular holiday and discuss being thankful for things, but they just prohibit teaching that students should specifically be thankful TO GOD.

of course, many conservatives are upset that the schools don't teach that students should be thankful to god, hence the coverage of the story on fox news and other conservative media outlets.

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Wed, 11-23-2005 - 12:06pm

I posted the "thanks " post before I read this but I agree about giving thanks all year round and rather than just appreciating what others do, doing something about it, too.






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Wed, 11-23-2005 - 4:36pm

My granddaughters go to school in Md and they call Thanksgiving: farmers day. It makes me sad that no mention is made about pilgrims, native americans,

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