A few random things

Last February, I realized I had reached my highest weight ever, 32.5 pounds heavier than what I consider my ideal weight. Since then, I’ve lost about 17 pounds. I’m not eating very well, which I hope to improve, but I’m running a fair amount. (And by not eating well I mean burgers, pizza, beer, and fast-food breakfast sandwiches.) This week, yoga starts again at work (a free program for staff) and I’m thinking of adding some weight training to the mix, mainly because I think I need to be stronger. If I didn’t lose any more weight, I’d be OK with that, but I’d like to feel stronger and more fit and maybe throw some veggies and fruits into my mix of junk food.

A side effect of my training is that my wedding and engagement rings have started feeling really loose. Yesterday morning, I sat down at my desk at work and noticed that my wedding ring was gone. I panicked. I reached for my cell phone to ask Nate to look for it at home, hoping that maybe I had taken it off at the sink and just forgotten, and as I grabbed my purse to look for my car keys, I saw my ring sitting at the bottom of my purse. I think that when I parked my car that morning and threw my keys into my bag, my ring slipped off and I didn’t even notice. I was very lucky. It’s just a material thing, but I really do love my wedding ring. So now I’m wondering if I should get the rings resized or possibly get one of those rubber thingamaboabs that you can put on the inside of a ring to make it a smaller size. The really weird thing is, I think I was about five pounds lighter than I currently am now when we bought the ring, so I’m not sure why it’s so loose. Maybe it’s all the running making my fingers skinny? Just my luck that my belly is stubborn but my fingers long to be slim.

My hubby is gone for a few days for work. That means I’ll be very busy at home with the three pets and various household chores. I’m also hoping to get a lot of work done on the book. I’m almost done with another draft (goal is to finish by the time Nate gets home). As I’ve been working on this latest draft, I’ve found myself really struggling. I’m so tired of reading this damn book. I think that might be a sign I’m close to finished. Especially because I’ve noticed I’m putting things back in that I’ve taken out in earlier drafts.

In anticipation that I might be done soon, I ordered a little treat for myself. A
Lamy AL Star Fountain Pen. So I feel I’m almost done, but how do you know these things for sure? One of my friends, a short story writer, has finished reading it. She’s in Montreal right now and we plan on chatting Thursday. I guess we’ll see if she has any really big questions or critiques that need resolving. Then maybe I’ll have a better sense of how close I am to the finish line.

In vacation news, I think we’ve decided on starting in Zacatecas, then traveling to Guanajuato, and ending the trip in Real de Catorce. Should be fun, but we have to find some dog and house sitters.