Weight:
I’ve tried to keep the food intake down this week,
but I’ve been very naughty on the carb front. Between that and going out to
dinner with hubby to Olive Garden, I wound up with a gain over last week. I’m
back to 200.8. Not thrilled. Not that I did anything about it yesterday. Got up
and had no time to exercise, as I had to catch a plane to Connecticut with my
youngest son. He’s spending the summer with his grampa. We ate a very, very
quick McSandwich for breakfast. Lunch/supper was at a very nice restaurant. I
was hungry, so I had an appetizer of New England Clam Chowder. Ate a relatively
healthy lunch of braised herb salmon and asparagus, with a small bit of smashed
potatoes. Dessert was an issue. Lava cake and ice cream, split with my son. Oy
vay! Connecticut’s gonna be hard.
On the plus side, despite the rain and chill keeping
me from walking around the hilly neighborhood and the lack of exercise
equipment at the house, I should be able to get over to the local YMCA. My dad
said that they have a two week free trial that I can participate
in. Failing that, the local gym has a 10 day free trial. I’m hoping the Y has a
pool; although there is a town pool, it’s so far been cold and rainy and the
town pool is outside.
The other thing going for me is that my dad is a
diabetic. I know that sounds wrong, but what I mean is that there’s not a whole
lot of sugary crap food around his house. Now if I can just get him to stop
feeding my son and I like we’re starved and having a low-sugar attack, we’ll be
fine.
Words:
At least I’ve gotten some words written this week. I
got up a couple of mornings and knocked out some writing while waiting for the
teen to get ready to leave for school. I also wrote one day in a notebook while
I was at an amusement park with my son and his friend. With all of that, and
despite getting ready for my trip to Connecticut, I still managed to pop out 1823
words. I was super-proud that all of the words were in my sci-fi romance
instead of all over the place. Now, not all of it was in a direct timeline from
point A to point B, but still…
These next couple of weeks will be a challenge to
find writing time, as I am at my dad’s to help him clean out some of my mom’s
stuff. Mom is in a nursing home and neither knows about nor wants (when she
does know about) a good percentage of her things. She has resigned herself to
being in the home and knows that she has no room for many of her things, most
of which she has not even seen, let alone used, for several years.
There are also the numerous dusty items that are found when one has been living in the same home for dozens and dozens of years. I need to help Dad sort through a lot of that stuff while I'm here, and since he'll be working during the day for the next couple of weeks, it's pretty much on me.
Vocab: Conflagrate: to be on fire.
Story idea: A dragon walks into a pub…
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