I drink a lot of water. I always bring a bottled water to work, I usually freeze a few bottles, then move them from the freezer to the fridge for a day or two so they melt about halfway, then I drink them. This provides ice-cold drinks of water for a good portion of the day, as the ice block inside continues to melt.

I am also currently going through a “bubly” phase. I tried a few 12-packs of bubly recently when they were on sale pretty cheap and I liked it, so I brought a case to work. Since then I’ve been drinking about a 12-pack per week at work, along with my frozen bottled water. It sure beats drinking from the tap. I don’t have a preference in the flavor of the bubly, I think I’ve tried them all. They have very little flavor anyway. I guess it’s more the carbonation that I like about it. Bubly has one of those “all-zeros” nutritional labels, so there’s basically nothing in it, or at least nothing that’ll effect my health numbers at all.

At home we also enjoy a lot of Sparkling Ice. This is another water with an “all-zero” nutritional label, but it has a nice flavor. Not just any flavor though–there are several, but I like the Strawberry Watermelon flavor the best. So much, in fact, that we get this flavor only, whenever we find it on the shelf, and often take several cases, leaving nothing left of that flavor on the shelf. None of their other flavors taste as good to me as that one. Sandy and Kevin like a few other flavors and buy those as well sometimes. I’ve tried them, but I always come back to my Strawberry Watermelon.

Exciting story, isn’t it? How’s it going to end? Well, all this water has to go somewhere, doesn’t it? I have to run to the restroom constantly throughout the day at work and at home. This results in more steps, as I’ve come to realize, but it can also be a nuisance at certain inappropriate times. I can’t sleep for more than two or three hours at night before I have to get up and go. I might be able to fix that issue just with timing though–no water if it’s too close to bedtime. That’d certainly be a better solution than taking another pill I think. During my walks it can also be an issue. I always have to be sure to plan out my walks–if they’re going to be of any significant distance–so that there is at least a restroom along the way or at either end of the walk so I can take a pit stop if needed.