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Tuesday, October 21, 2003

fell off the diet wagon

Over the course of the last few weeks I totally fell off the diet wagon. Or, should I say, I jumped off with both feet. It is a full-out miracle that I didn't gain back everything I've lost to date. As it is, I did gain back two pounds (or else I can be like Cathy and assume that those two pounds were just water ;-). Nothing to do with the fact that I inhaled chocolate chip cookies as if they were calorie-free -- nothing to do with eating at restaurants two days in a row (Chinese for lunch on Sunday and then [insert heavenly choir clouds-opening chords here] The Red Fox last night for dinner. That one was T's idea, and bless him, it was fantastic. I love that place, it's my favorite restaurant, and everyone should eat there. But I had been so good all day until then...), nothing to do with the fact that the most brisk walking I've done since the end of September was about a block and a half total on Friday when I parked my car in the center of a triangle whose points were the post office, the grocery store, and our credit union. I did get a lot of exercise on Saturday, helping to paint my parents' house, but then I ate enough of my dad's barbecue to compensate fully for that. So I am still hanging around juuuuust under 174, a net loss of juuuuust over 20 lb. And of course I resolve to Change That.


Another thing about today that really bites is that for some reason my ISP's Internet connection works just great, but their website and email is down. waah! Not only am I having email withdrawal, but I can envision the piles and piles of mail backing up at the server, because I get a LOT of mail, and I know I should just set it downloading and then go, say, on an expedition to Mt. Everest, while I wait for it to download, when it finally functions again.


My 4-year-old daughter is singing "Happy Birthday" (to whom I do not know) in Ewok-ese. "Yub yub yub yub yub yub!" and so on. She is also playing tic-tac-toe with her Ewok Pez dispenser as an opponent. I just thought I would share a little bit of normal with you all. :)


We have been having a great time in school. We learned as much as we wanted to about Arthurian legends, and then LT wanted to move on to studying maps. So this week he's learning basics -- he already knows map directions and how to interpret most things on maps; he's learning where the continents and oceans are now. Then next week we'll start going continent-by-continent, studying countries on each one. I'm really looking forward to it, and so is he -- especially to the part when we find recipes from the various countries we study and make them. I am wondering what people eat in Africa, though. I suppose I'll find out. ;-).

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