Weight:
Weight is up to an embarrassing 201.6 once again.
Those trips to visit my dad really do me in. He buys donuts, which are my
kryptonite, and every time I would offer to cook something healthy, he would
say, “let’s go out to dinner.” Invariably, we would wind up at some Italian
restaurant.
I don’t know what is keeping me from logging my food
into MyFitnessPal again, but I am just going to have to start. Partially, I
think that it’s been due to being away, and partially probably to all the
activity of late. Not only is my younger son spending the summer with his
grampa 1200 miles away, but my older son is going away for a total of nearly a
month to two different, very intensive trainings. Add my trip to Chicago, with
the return happening the first day of school, then top it off with the
(exciting, but sad) news of my hubby’s promotion and transfer. The boys and I
will stay in Florida for the teen’s final year of school while hubby will be
living about halfway up the coast. Hubby’s promotion means that we also have to
sell the house that we just bought last year, although we have to time that
with me and the younger boy moving north to be with hubby. The house needs
major cleaning and clearing out, ‘cause we are some serious pack-rats; but a
cluttered house doesn’t show well. So, yeah, busy and stressed, and stress
eating.
At any rate, I am back on the exercises. Gotta tell
you, forty sit ups after two weeks of none was not easy. But I did them, and
that’s what’s important. I also completed most of my usual calisthenics
routine. The treadmill is back to one hour every other day. The fight to get
back to what one friends calls “one-derland” is on.
Writing:
It’s nice that, sometimes when I screw up in one
area, I shine in another. This is one of those times. So far this month, I have
written 2592 words; since last week, I have written a total of 3905 words. All
of those words have been in Quantum Kiss. One thing that’s helping is that I
decided to join Camp NaNoWriMo, in which we are attempting to write a total of
50K words by July 31st, beginning on July 1st.
For this week, with the holiday, and the teen
heading off to one training on Saturday, and hubby leaving out for a week on
Monday, the writing is slow-going—I know, I know, not so slow if I’m churning
out in one week what I have been doing in two weeks or a month. Our daily goal
in Camp is 1613. The nice thing, and one I didn’t think I’d like, is that they
assign you to a “cabin”, where you can check in with others and motivate each
other. Our cabin is having a slow start, but that happens.
My goal is to finish Quantum Kiss this month and
begin to really focus on Druid, my Western. A friend of mine even made me a sig
and avi set, as well as a book “cover” to display on my Camp profile once I’ve
finished Q.K.
Prompt: It’s 1776. You are a loyalist married to a
rebel. Or vice versa. How do you feel about your mate? Are you worried for
them? Hopeful that they’ll be killed?
Vocab: Loyalist: One who remained loyal to the
British government during the American Revolution.
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