Well, do you want the good news or the bad news
first? I’m gonna start with the not-so-good and finish on a positive note.
Weight:
Well, I gained a bit back this week and I forgot to take the picture. I am at 194.2. Huge cravings
hit me for some reason and I was also sick for a couple of days so I didn’t
feel up to exercising. I actually only exercised the last three days of the
last seven, except for a small bit on the treadmill on Saturday. I know I can
weather this happening once in a while and I don’t feel too bad since I was at
my lowest last week. That being said, I am now further away from my next weight
goal of getting into the 180s.
And so, I shall have to buckle down once more, just
a bit; not punishment, just no seconds. Today. And no eating more than one
serving of molasses cookies. Today. And I won’t just focus on the negatives, on
the “nots”. I will have a nice, fresh salad today. I will cut up the
strawberries and have them with some low-fat whipped cream today. I will have a
nice big piece of salmon for dinner, along with some rice and a veg.
Don’t care that hubby won’t be home for dinner. I can eat healthy without him,
too. This morning, for breakfast, I had an English muffin with
peanut butter to ramp up my energy. I’ll buy a cantaloupe at the store later or
a watermelon and slice it up.
Since I am bored senseless with my current exercise
routine, I am going to clean up my front room (where the treadmill is) and have
my son teach me some of his karate moves to spice things up. I’ll ask my other
son to show me some of the Marine hand-to-hand fighting that he learned, as
well as some of their exercises (that’s where I got the idea for the flutter
kicks). I may have the boys teach me to ride a bicycle; it’s embarrassing, but
I never did learn. When finances allow, I’ll join the Y to take advantage of
their pool. The Y isn’t close, but it’s probably cheaper, and less
intimidating, than the hoochie-momma gym around the corner. Still can’t afford
yoga in my area, but one day I will.
Writing:
Well, here’s where I shone this week. I had a story
idea that’s been tugging at me for some time, a Western. Yeah, yeah, I know.
But it’s not your typical Western; it’s a paranormal Western, in keeping with my blog's theme. No, not Cowboys
& Aliens. Just paranormal, involving spirits and mysticism and impossible
love made possible. It is currently titled, “The Western”. Real creative for a
writer, eh? The problem is, it’s still in its infancy and so it hasn’t given me
its title yet. I’ve titled books too soon before and wind up with names that
make no sense to the story—I give you “In the Blood”, which has nothing to do with
blood. It was going to, but then didn’t go that way. Problem was, I’d already
started posting it on the fan fic sites, so I was stuck with the name. The
closest that story came (and it’s a stretch) to having anything to do with
blood was that the main characters share a rare genetic trait. A single strand
of DNA. That’s it.
So, getting back to the writing that I accomplished
this week. In the new fic, I managed to get 3117 new words written, 2025 of them in the new fic. This sparked a
renewed interest in QK, in which I wrote 1092 words this week. I plan to
write up a “plan book” or a “play book” for QK this coming week, in which I put
all the info—the players, the tech, the magic, all of it, as well as a very
rough outline. I am, by nature, a pantser, but I am finding that a part of me
yearns for order. Maybe this is a response to all that’s going on with Mom
& Dad, but suddenly, my inner Control Freak is freaking out. She wants to
take over. And so, I’ve been having more interest in some sort of plotting of
my stories.
This week's prompt:
Vocab: Utopia--a perfect world
Prompt: What’s your idea of the perfect world?
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