Lessons from Day 1

Breakfast: Omelette with tomato and haloumi
Lesson the first: cut up the tomato into little pieces. My omelette ended up looking rather more like scrambled eggs. To my surprise, I could actually taste the missing yolk (one out of two eggs). Ah well, it didn't taste bad, just different. Put way too much pepper on it; be reasonable with such things. The haloumi was a delicious touch.

After breakfast I went and did some Wii Fit. To refamiliarise myself with the whole thing I did pretty much every exercise and yoga position. I did pretty well, not bailing out on anything, even though I desperately wanted to at times. Major discovery here: your hands do a lot of supporting when you're in the pushup position. The parallel stretch or whatever it's called, where you basically just hold that position resting on your forearms, had me shaking with the effort pretty quickly.

Wii Fit is pretty good about incentive. I completed my tenth total hour of exercise (in a year, no less!) and it upgraded my standard piggy bank (which stores how much time I have spent exercising) to a bronze one. I think I can safely assume that I will be getting a silver and gold one fairly soon.

Lunch: Saté chicken skewers
My first thought upon seeing these in the freezer was "someone is pretty fancy about their satay". But either they got the satay drastically wrong or this is something different; lots of herbs, no peanuts. Horrendously overcooked them, but after the hours of exercise was glad for the meaty meal. Had a salad with cos lettuce, sugar snap beans and more fried haloumi (the stuff is freakin delicious).

After that, my second bout of exercise for the day: 20 minutes running up and down the stairs. I must admit, at first I felt kind of stupid doing this, but after a while the effort of it started to hit me. This is a three storey house so there are two flights of stairs, one on top of the other. So I was in a continuous corkscrew motion, up and down. This made me a little dizzy, but nowhere near as dizzy as the exhaustion.

Some might say this was cheating; that I was not using my games systems. This is both incorrect (I had Muse playing on my PS3) and completely missing the point. Pretty much everyone has stairs somewhere in their house. If you don't, then you probably live in a decently long house and can run from end to end, or do a circuit. I'm not in a gym, I haven't got a trainer. That was the point of the whole thing.

Dinner: Kangaroo
I had a barbecue a couple days ago and someone left behind some marinated kangaroo steaks. The advice I got to cook them was "very hot pan, for not very much time". Good thing I like rare meat, because these things were rare. Seared on the outside but still very much a deep purple on the inside. That said, they were tasty and tender and the marinade was delicious. I'm looking forward to cooking the rest of them, perhaps for tomorrow's lunch.

Had pretty much the same salad as lunch, only threw in some carrots and currants. Not bad, and the currants gave it a refreshing sweetness.

Crazy times
I've just watched two full AFL games in a row. I love watching the game but normally don't have the attention span to last more than a quarter. Something about all this exercise has made me immune to shiny things.