So, here's what I've been up to the last few days, in no particular order:
-2 30-minute cycling classes at ass-thirty in the morning, which I've actually been enjoying quite a bit, even though it requires that I get up 2 hours earlier than normal.
-watching Noah sing a solo in his 5th grade Christmas er, Winter program, which was AWESOME.
-Taking a sick day yesterday to stay home with Noah, who had a sore throat that looked serious in the morning, but made a marked improvement once I suggested that we might have to see a doctor.
-Finally cleaning the kitchen and living room, which had nearly reached 3rd degree squalor. It's always amazing to me how much calmer and at home I feel once the public areas of our house are presentable, and how little time it takes to get them there. I let it build up a little at a time until it looks like an enormous job, then I put it off for weeks. But when I finally break down and do the cleaning, I'm done in less than an hour. Sigh. Someday I'll learn. 30 minutes a day, that's what my grandma says. She's generally right about such things.
-Christmas shopping, though precious little of it. I've got part of Noah's stuff bought, and I sent off the gift for my dad, girlfriend, and baby Ben. Hopefully it will get there...I'm always paranoid that things won't be shipped, and doubly so when I'm not sending them to my own house. This box would have been too big to carry on the plane, though, so it had to be done this way. I'll call them in a week, make sure they got it.
-Gaining weight. Not a lot, but not an insignificant amount. My pants are getting tighter, I'm feeling softer. I think there's been an increase in back fat, though that may just be my imagination/guilty conscience.
-Getting goaded into a conditional commitment to do a triathlon in April (see comments). I am the weakest link.
-Trying to come up with a plan to stop gaining weight...still a work in progress.
Posted by Joy at December 8, 2005 09:14 AM