Sorry--A day late and a dollar short this week. Had a busier day than usual yesterday (five hours at the younger boy's school, helping on a teacher appreciation luncheon) and then wound up with technical difficulties.
I'm still WAY behind on Christmas prep--cards to get written and out, decorations to put up, cookies to make and bake. This Saturday, we go to my in-laws' house for "early Christmas" since they work Christmas day. I'm in direct sales and Sunday I receive my last delivery before Christmas (it will need to be sorted and delivered to customers, hopefully ON Sunday), which leaves only part of Sunday (hopefully) and Monday to finish everything.
The day after Christmas, my teen is off to another Sea Cadet training class (luckily, this one is only an hour or so away, instead of a full day's drive) and right now we're busy trying to pick up all of his last-minute sea bag items, as well as helping a friend whose daughter is going for the first time to a training.
At any rate, here's the check-in:
Words:
Not a whole lot to say, other than “Blech!” I did transfer
another fan fic over to AO3—thirty little drabbles worth, but that was it outside of the blogs (1,123 words) and one small story idea that I do not like in the light
of day and was only 542 words anyway. That gives me an average of about 240 per day.
Once all this Christmas busy-ness is over, I plan to collapse for about a week before getting ready for taxes and then settling down with a proper writing schedule. My goal will still be 500 words per day, but I'd like that to be the "fiction only" goal, not including the blogs.
Weight:
Here’s where I shine this week. Current weight:
That's down 3.4 pounds from last week. I’ve been keeping my calories as close to 1200 per day as
possible and increased my exercise routine.
Current exercises:
5 rolling back stretches (on my back, knees bent, roll to
first one side, then the other)
5 opposing back stretches (on my back, lengthen one side of
my body, then the other)
30 sit ups
3 reps of 10 each flutter kicks
5 push ups (regular)
30 push ups (easy)
5 push ups (regular)
5 switches between child pose and cobra
10 four count leg lifts (on my side—bend the top knee in,
then out, then put the leg up, then down; repeat on the both legs)
Stand and do:
10 curls with 2 pound weights
10 side arm raises with the same weights
10 front arm exercises with the same weights (hold arms at
shoulder height at sides, bring hands together, back to sides)
10 windmills
30 minutes on the treadmill, beginning at a speed of 2.6,
going up to 3.6 at the most, cooling down with a speed of 2.6.
With 34 weeks to go to Chicon, if I can keep up this weight
loss, I’ll have reached my goal easily and even gone below. I began this trek
at nearly 218, with a goal of getting down to 160/165 by August. My August goal
is now 160. I want to be down to 145 by the end of 2013, perhaps a bit lower,
but not by much.
Weather:
As usual, it’s too danged warm to be nearly Christmas in
Florida. Yesterday morning, it was a lovely 52F; the afternoon was supposed to have been in
the 80s again. Pfffttt! No precipitation of any sort, either. Boring, boring,
boring weather. I can’t wait to move north, even though that’ll mean my kids
have moved out.
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