The beginning is always today. (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

• My battery died this evening. Luckily, because of a flat tire last week (my second flat, not this one), I've joined AAA. So I made the second call to the service line in five days. In the past four weeks, I've had two flat tires, a warning from the police for a dead headlight, and a dead battery -- an average of one vehicle crisis per week. And that doesn't even take into effect the panic attack I get each time I have to pay for a tank of gas!
• Listening to the Lime and Violet podcast is not a good idea when driving on the interstate. I was listening to episode 48 in which Lime was telling about a dare that she had from her husband, and I got to laughing so hard that I almost missed my exit. (For my muggle friends, Kaffe Fassett is a knitter...)
  
• I've noticed that my best time for planning to start a serious diet is in the evenings as I'm getting ready to end my day. It will occur to me, as it has tonight, that I not only need to make changes in order to have a healthy lifestyle, I want to make those changes. I will sit down and figure out what I need to eat. I plan on having regular meals, cooking healthy, and cutting out fast foods. I convince myself that exercise is key, and I add time at the gym to my daily schedule. In the morning, as I rush into the day's activities, it will dawn on me that once again I've had unrealistic expectations.
• In the same way, early morning is the best time for me to plan my day. I wake up and pencil in twenty or more items on my To Do list, confident that I can accomplish each and every one of them (and totally ignoring the fact that each one of the tasks has been brought forward from the day before). By the time the list is finished and printed neatly in my Daytimer, I'm running late and the list is forgotten in the rush of the day's actual activities.
  
• There were other comments in my head for today's post, but I've forgotten what they were. I'll try to keep better notes tomorrow.