A Sporting Chance

Friday night is usually wine night, if I decide I'm having a drink. It is not the case every week. Sometimes financial restraints dictate otherwise or frankly I'm just not in the mood. Tonight was slightly different, it was lager instead of wine. I'm sure wine is "better" for me, but recently I've had some dodgy bottles so it was nice to have a change. The big problem with drinking any alcohol is it usually gives you the munchies, either during or after. That can cause problems when trying to live healthy. It's not helped by judgement being somewhat blurred!

Earlier in the day, it was a bit of a race against time. The World Cup had thrown up Netherlands versus Brazil and there was the small matter of Scotland's Andy Murray in the semi-final of Wimbledon against Rafael Nadal. I also needed to hit the shops for food. I managed to dart into town and grab the essentials but it was a close call before making it home, missing the first five minutes of the football. The tennis would be starting as the second half of the football did. A dilemma that was quickly fixed thanks to the wonderful worldwide web...

Problem Solved!

...the Netherlands beat Brazil 2-1 and sadly Andy Murray lost to Rafael Nadal. I didn't really mind who won the football, but wanted Murray to win the tennis. Oh well. After an afternoon of watching sport, and my main meal which included brown rice... yes, brown rice - I've not mention this stuff yet but I think there is a future blog going to be about brown rice. All I'll say now is it takes at least twice as long to cook as normal rice and taste half as nice!! Anyway, after that I popped out to the supermarket to finish off my shopping from earlier. Grabbing a few bargains along the way.

The night ended with a few beers and some crisps. Not exactly a winning formula for The Real Slim Shandy but then I wasn't the only one to lose today. Sadly.