After eating a couple thousand bagels and a million truckloads of breakfast cereal, I lost interest in breakfast often enough I’d skip it.  Why is breakfast food so bland?  Anyway, it’s supposedly bad for you to go long stretches without eating something, especially if you need to regulate your blood sugar levels like I do.  For a while I’d gotten hooked on fast food breakfasts loaded with cheese and salt, but that brought the number of fast food meals I ate a week from five to ten fast food meals a week.  Crazy, but tasty, and most likely unhealthier than skipping breakfast entirely.

About a month ago I decided to eat a salad for breakfast and ever since I’ve had salad for breakfast four or five times a week.  I’ve mentioned it to a couple of people and they look at me like eating a salad for breakfast was like breaking some kind of law or I’d joined some weird cult.  It’s funny how some simple things like eating a bowl of lettuce instead of a bowl of corn flakes first thing in the morning can seem odd, when it isn’t.  Anyway, if you get those pre-bagged salads like I do, it’s just as easy to prepare as a bowl of cereal, and tastier.  I skip the croutons and cheese, but do add some chicken along with a vinegrette dressing.  I’m sure it’s mostly psychological, but since I’ve been doing this I feel less like a zombie on my way to work.

I took like 50 pictures of my dog and only two of them were in focus.  She was laying around and not moving at all for a good ten minutes while I was puttering away at my drafting table, which has basically become my tabletop figure studio while I do all my drawing on the computer now.  Anyway, I’ve got the camera handy so I turn it on and she begins to move constantly.  I’ve got over forty shots of this blur running across the picture frame.  She looks a little annoyed in this picture because you can’t hear me telling her to sit, stay, and all that other stuff just so I can get a freaking picture at least somewhat in focus.

I can go several months without buying a new CD (I’m one of those annoying people who doesn’t like the low 128 you get with downloads).  But, I kind of went nuts ordering discs off of Amazon.  A lot of them were crud after a listen and I won’t bother listing those right now, because I just don’t feel like it.  So out of five discs, two sucked, two were okay, and one has been played multiple times every day for the past week.

The one that I liked best was Luna’s Rendezvouz.  Luna is one of those bands that I’d always meant to get around to, but they’re so low key that for one reason or another I’d been passing them over…for like 12 years.  The songs on Rendezvouz feel a lot like the drive just before you’re picking up whoever you’re picking up or like the 3am drive home.  It’s very much music for when you’re alone and wanting to be, at least for a while.  I liked the album a lot, enough to pick up their much acclaimed Penthouse.