It's the seventh!  I imagine many of you made your resolutions prior to the New Year, drank and ate to excess on the Eve, and then threw yourself into high gear on the 1st to get these resolutions going.  Not me.  I mean, I did the first part -- the excessive eating and drinking, the ignoring my novel, the letting the laundry lapse.  All that good ( Read more... )

I'm a day late in posting this because I was hoping there would be better stats to report. Turns out a week of fluctuation has left me right back where I was last week. As much as I love to watch numbers drop, I loathe to watch them rise and that brings me to this resolution: weighing only once a week. I shouldn't start my morning grimacing and ( Read more... )

It's hard for me to believe we've only been doing this a month. Every meal's choices come naturally now. I do like knowing well ahead of time when I'm going to a restaurant, though, so I can plan my meal accordingly from their website's menu. Take Friday night for example: We went to Lucille's BBQ, ate warm biscuits with apple-butter, giant ( Read more... )

The week really ends on Monday, but I'm sitting alone downstairs, listening to raindrops smack the pavement, and it makes me reflective. This entire week I stuck to the plan - juice and fruit all morning and trading off between proteins and carbs to match with my vegetables. Bob and I nearly had a sweets breakdown last night (the idea of red ( Read more... )

I must admit to a touch of finger paralysis these days. The idea of sitting down to the computer and actually writing something has me doing everything from chores to planning out next Christmas' surprises. I said I'd write this year. I don't have big dreams of getting something together for submission, but I'm joining groups, I'm reading books ( Read more... )

I find it horrible that I haven't touched this since February. I still check it on a daily basis, but writing.. well, I'm not doing much of that these days. At least, not the computer variety. I have a black spiral sketchbook (probably left over from when Kathy suggested I learn to draw once upon a time) that I'm using for my writing group and ( Read more... )

So, I'm sitting in Coffee Bean on my break, taking advantage of the free WiFi. I think Coffee Bean is finally winning me over in the Coffee Chain category. They came up with a maple oat scone (which I shouldn't have really gotten, due to sugar and watching things and the fact that I'm full to bursting now, but..) which is lovely. Have it warmed ( Read more... )

I'm gearing up to take on something huge.  My head is having a hard time wrapping itself around the enormity of such a project, so instead it keeps me busy with mundane tasks instead of what I should be focused on.

I move around the house, thinking it'll be easier to focus here.  No here.  No, outside.  No, too many bugs.  Inside.  Back upstairs I ( Read more... )