Day 218: Happy 5766

There are a lot of days that are filled with bad energy, karma, what have you. Sometimes, when they arrive so that they overlap important days, like the 'new year's eve' for Jews, you could get suspicious. Fortunately for me, this day went pretty well (check back with me in a year). I didn't win the lottery or anything, but it was just a day that my coat didn't get caught on the drawer-pull, I wasn't late for work, the bus came on time, I had money for stuff I was on line for, and I remembered things in time to do something about it. Today I had Chinese for lunch and the fortune said "When you're finished changing, you're finished." I thought that was apt. It also said my lucky numbers were 7, 12, 28, 35 and 61. So take that for what it's worth.

Breakfast
40% of 1 Fuji Apple
Peanut Butter
1 Cheese Stick

Snack
4 Dried Apricots
1/5th Cup almonds/cashews
1 dragon stick
12 oz coffee (half decaf)

Lunch
Egg drop soup
Beef with Broccoli
Boneless spare ribs

Dinner
Apples with Honey (for Rosh Hashanah)
Challah
Goat & cheddar Cheese
Chicken Soup
Brisket
Asparagus
Noodle Kugel
2 Glasses Wine
Raspberry Rugelach
Marble Spongecake

So it was the Jewish new year and I got together with my friends for whom celebrating at least one of the Jewish holidays has become a tradition. We are getting it down to a science. I must say that both Emily and I ate more than usual, though I did not feel 'stuffed'—only that I ate my fill and was done. It's good to do that once in a while—especially if you get a two mile walk in the next day. I allowed myself to eat pretty much anything I wanted, though I clearly took as small a piece of kugel as I could, and tried to contain myself around the desserts.

Tomorrow is the beginning of the rest of the year—and then Yom Kippur, the fasting day of atonement. That will be good for me. I promise.