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April 20th - 22nd 2018

I feel like my 13 Days of Healthy Eating & Exercising has turned in to "look how small your appetite is on Sudafed" but I committed to it, so here's what I ate:

Friday
  • Breakfast: Sleeping.
  • Lunch: 8 Chick-fil-a nuggets & a fruit cup
  • Dinner: mashed potatoes & applesauce
  • Exercise: tried not to die

Saturday - Happy 92nd Birthday Queen Elizabeth!
  • Breakfast: Pumpernickel toast with light butter
  • Lunch: A 100 calorie Greek yogurt ice cream that Chris said I'd like.  (It was okay.)
  • Dinner: Chili with crackers & tortilla chips, 2 Grapefruit Shandys, and a little bit of Banana Cream Supreme because we had friends over.
  • Exercise: None, but I did cross-stitch this for a friend!


Sunday
  • Breakfast: More sleeping.
  • Lunch: Chipotle-style Indian Bowl (chickpeas, brown rice, tomatoes, red onion, cucumber, cilantro, raita).  Soooo good.  Seriously, how is this not a restaurant everywhere?  This place is awesome.  It's just a random spot in the Dulles Town Center food court.
  • Dinner: Tomato salad, rotisserie chicken, saffron rice, some leftover banana stuff.
  • Exercise: (tbd, will update tomorrow)
 

So which member of the royal family shall we award when things are going okay but not as necessarily intended due to a minor but annoying illness?  Princess Anne, my friends.  She wears the same stuff from DECADES prior, and looks...fine.  There's nothing inherently wrong with that, but as you can see, there's nothing right about it either.

Princess Anne in this yellow coat 35 YEARS AGO...and now!

Or how about this...interesting hat and dress combo that she wore in 1981 to Prince Charles & Princess Diana's wedding, and then re-wore 27 years later to another family wedding.  #awkward
Want to see more to find out how far back Anne will go?  Here you go!

And finally, happy 92nd birthday to her Majesty.  To mark the occasion, she went to a concert and wore a longer-than-usual set of pearls.

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