In retrospect, I drank too much coffee, probably.

I have had an unusually productive morning, even by my standards.

Before 10:00 am, I have:

• Updated the attendance for my 200-person lecture.  This is hard because I am taking attendance in the slowest, most time consuming possible way, and then because it's a pain, I procrastinate, so today, I had to do 2 lectures-worth of reading and recording
• Gotten 4 kids off to 3 different schools and made all of their beds and cleaned all of their bathrooms
• Put dinner for the oldest 4 of us in the crockpot
• Packed a picnic for the little 2 to eat at gymnastics
• Worked on my adjunct class
• Baked peanut butter M&M cookies because the banana choc chip muffins I made last night are already gone-- and!  Since I am still doing intermittent fasting, I have started doing all of my baking in my fasting window, and I am not eating ANYTHING while I bake.  This is huge for me because I used to eat easily 600 calories in dough and chocolate chips, etc.  And then, of course, I would not tell My Fitness Pal because who wants to own up to that?
• Worked out
• Lifted weights
• Took a shower
• Got dressed and put on makeup
• Worked on my spring class
• Read about ancient Greece
• Done 4 loads of laundry, including a bunch of pee laundry

I mean, now I can basically slack for the rest of the damn day.  KIDDING.  Sort of.  I have a fridge water filter to change, a book to read for a blog review, and a novel to write.

World's cutest sweatpants from H&M where I stopped after work to get Dorothy something My Little Pony to wear to the movie (omfg).  I texted a pic of them to Ben to see if he thought Coop would like them.  He predicted that the legs would be TOO TIGHT TOO TIGHT TOO TIGHT.  But I bought them anyway along with an ill-advised rainbow unicorn sweatshirt for me and then Cooper hated them OF COURSE and I had to take them back but damn they're cute.  Also, If you "need" to buy licensed character clothing for your kid, I totally recommend H&M-- their stuff is generally cuter than most.

 Read this short story to your kids.  James Thurber.  Its in many Thurber anthologies-- this is from My Life and Hard Times, which is so funny and a breeze to read.

 Harry and Ben had hickey try outs last night. Well, Harry did, and ben helicoptered on over.  I made pancakes for the other 3 and didn't put chocolate chips in them because Dorothy has decided she only like chocolate chips on the side and doesn't want anyone else to eat them any other way.  So then Cooper was like, Oh we are having pancake faces, which, of course, I found charming.  I served the berries, but he added the pretzels.

 Beatrix woke up from a sound, smiling sleep (although not to sound-- see her perky little ears?)

 To bark her little face off at a pet food commercial that featured a golden retriever.

 I DID NOT EAT A CRUMB OF THESE!!

I have lost 4 pounds in 2 weeks of fasting intermittently, and it's awesome.  I am someone who can abstain more easily than I can indulge moderately because I live my entire life balanced at the edge of a slippery slope fallacy, so the 8-hour eating window works great. I also don't feel like I need to deprive myself when it's time to eat, so the 1200 calories that My Fitness Pal suggests I eat (1500 with exercise) go a LONG WAY.  If you are an upholder and an abstainer like me, I bet you'd like it, too. 

And!  Because I fast until 12 or 13:30, I have started drinking my coffee black, and we are going through a half-gallon LESS MILK.  And I never counted my coffee-milk calories because I figured it was just skim milk and just a little, but it was CUPS of milk a week.  CUPS.

And one more thing!  I was worried about staining my teeth with black coffee, so I started drinking it from a stainless steel straw and my mom said that would burn my lips and I was all whatever lady and IT DID.  So now I like my coffee tepid.  And by like I mean tolerate.