Beth got NEW PINK GOGGLES! And she has to wear the NEW PINK GOGGLES all the time! This right here is why I went to the pool every day this week.

I wasn’t trying to overdue it (honest!), but I think I did. My second week of The Plan started out great, with salads and swimming happening right off the bat. And then, as you look at the calendar, you can see it just didn’t let up. Beth got new goggles, and she had to use them ALL THE TIME. I am not kidding. Have you every seen a kid try to eat Cheerios with basically no peripheral vision? Awesome.

I swam with her every day, and I was busy busy busy with errands, trips, out-of-town visitors, and housework. I haven’t been sleeping great, as I often respond to overwhelm by stealing solo time late at night, when the house is asleep. This usually means a movie, and that usually means I don’t go to bed until 2am.

I’m so zombified I can’t even socialize without wearying. Right now, as I type this, the guys and a bunch of our friends are sitting out in the living room, watching a movie after playing games. The kids are crashed out in their beds – Beth and I swam for an hour today with Auntie Sonja, and Miles did a 3-mile bike ride with his school, and then all three of us went to a park for an hour with friends. I’m in my room, wiped out, alternating between reading and dozing off. After I write this, I’m going to make some tea and whine about being old.

I can feel my body getting tighter, as if it’s trying to rally itself for the next week of grueling activity. Batten down the hatches! She’s going to drive us into the ground again! What’s funny is that this week’s tally, while impressive for me, isn’t actually that much activity. I mean geez, maybe a half hour a day, average, of my heart rate being up? Yet it’s a lot more physical exercise than I usually get, which is pretty sad. And here I wonder why I’m fat. It isn’t fair, man! Why can’t you burn more calories through typing?