“The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.”
-Denis Watley
Are you a winner??
Halfway through the week! Thank goodness! It’s a stressful one for me. I have a paper due today, donation letters to send out, a PR research project to work on, a Persuasion exam Monday, a discussion to lead in class tomorrow, an internship application to finish, five nights of working until 11 PM, marathon training, and a hurt knee! Whew.
Monday night after work, I went to the gym to run (gotta love a 24-hour gym!) and I must have strained my left knee. I had an ACL reconstruction five years ago and have torn cartilage in it since then, and from time to time it swells up and gets very irritated. It’s painful! Doesn’t my knee know I have a half marathon to run in 11(!!!) days?! I rested it yesterday, and am going to do some cross training on the bike today, followed by some ice. Crossing my fingers that will do the trick! No time for injuries! 
I had a pretty specific craving for lunch today: a bagel sandwich! While at Publix last weekend, I bought a bag of whole-wheat mini bagels. I wanted to recreate a veggie bagel sandwich that I had last year in Destin. I think the sandwich had spinach, sprouts, cucumber, tomato, onion, and raspberry vinaigrette. I went to my favorite local restaurant, Sweet Basil Cafe to pick up some of their homemade raspberry vinaigrette dressing, but they only had sesame-poppyseed vinaigrette, so I grabbed that instead. Of course, I didn’t have half of the ingredients needed so I improvised. I toasted the bagel and topped it with spinach, arugula, sliced apple, shredded carrot, and the dressing. YUMMMMM!
It ended up great. I love bagel sandwiches!! I also had a little salad on the side.
The remainder of my day will be spent finishing up my ethics paper, hitting the gym, and getting donation letters together! Have a happy hump day!
-Arabic Proverb
