What's for dinner?

Tonight we're having shrimp quesadillas. Pre-cooked shrimp, sliced lengthwise to make them skinnier; red pepper strips and tomatillo slices sprinkled with cumin and salt and pepper, brushed with oil, and broiled; grated cheddar and jack cheeses; and a little salsa, all layered into flour tortillas and broiled until the cheese melts.

I think that alongside we'll have corn on the cob and a green salad.

What's for dinner at your house?

Training my person.

So curiousangel and I joined a gym.

This is so utterly unlike me that I can't even believe I typed the sentence. I'm the one who always had a doctor's note to be excused from gym class. I'm the one who walked with crutches five and a half years ago, and had to give serious thought to whether I was up to walking two city blocks. And while the bionic hip has done me worlds of good, I still have such a feeling of awkwardness and alienation from physical activity that the idea of me voluntarily going somewhere people exercise is just... well. I never would have imagined it.

But we've been trying to stick with the program we started last May, exercising every day, and that's been hard to do in 100-degree heat. And both of us have been feeling like we want to do something besides walking for our exercise time. So here we are with gym memberships. And Tuesday evening, I'll meet for the first time with my personal trainer. (I shake my head in disbelief. Me, Rivka, with a personal trainer.)

I've been thinking about what I'll want her to know about me - because my body and its needs and abilities are, um, pretty complicated and non-standard, and so are my feelings about physical activity. So I've been trying to figure out what needs to be said before we get started. (I'm expecting her to call me Monday night, because I have logistical questions, so I'll probably let her know some of the basic stuff then.) I'm mostly writing this down to clarify things in my head, but you're also welcome to comment or make suggestions if you'd like.

( so I'll want her to know about... )