Back in May, I decided to start getting my life in order: every month, I would focus on building one good habit. In June, it was bedtime: my goal was to brush my teeth by 9:30pm every night, because once my teeth are brushed, I'm on my way to bed. It's been honored more in the breach, but just setting a goal has gotten me to bed more regularly. ( Read more... )

I'm not really sure how the most interesting book I read in 2012 and one of the few related books I read in 2013 never got LJ reviews, considering how many people I've recommended them to. Apparently the only books I really enjoyed from my 2012 reading were Tierney and Baumeister's Willpower and Dan John's Never Let Go, which is doubly interesting ( Read more... )

I wish I knew why I feel so much better today than I did 2 weeks ago: is it crossing into the third trimester, less yoga, the PT exercises, or something else? Obviously, it would be quite helpful to know if anything I did made it better (or worse). *sighs ( Read more... )

The problem with this post is it keeps growing and changing the longer I don't write it. I almost didn't write it this morning, bc I'm getting more data later today (well, if I make it to the gym on time) so it might be invalid by this afternoon. Rinse and repeat ( Read more... )

I don't really have anything to talk about, I just feel chatty.

1) How much does my husband love me? He made me a lamb belly sandwich on potato bread bun with Carolina pepper sauce (to which I added all the relish) even though he didn't want any. aww ( Read more... )

I made an appt with an obstretician mostly based on one post I saw on some baby message board, instead of ( getting blind referrals )

• Good, quality time with my father's family over the weekend. It's been >5 years since I saw all of them in one room and I'm glad we had a big party for my cousin-who-is-in-terrible-health's 70th birthday. I found new depths in several of them and I WILL see more of some of them.
  
• A great workout with my sister, where I heard about what's up with her ( Read more... )

As I wrote the title, I realized I never discussed my Living Social-fueled classes at NYPD. ( pole dancing )

I wasted a lot of time in the preceding two weeks trying to get out of town for MLK weekend: it's been 5 years since I =didn't= go to NH for ice climbing and Mt. Washington that weekend. In the end, I probably got enough social-time, if not enough adventures ( Read more... )

In a recent conversation with Julian, I realized that most of my hobbies end with a bang. I stopped diving after completing a gainer in competition, one that my teammates knew I planned to punt bc I was freaked out from hitting the board the last time I'd done one. I stopped riding after galloping an Andalucian on a beach and spending a week riding ( Read more... )