What’s Up with Me

In response to the hair style poll on my last post, I told my hairdresser yesterday that I needed to have it trimmed and shaped but to let it grow some more.  I think she thought I was kidding about asking my blog readers what to do with it, but I really appreciated the direction!  [...]

Day Three Without Diet Coke

I had my last glass of Diet Coke on Sunday, and poured the rest of the big bottle down the drain.  That was it.  What seemed to be crazy back in August became reality.  I weaned myself off of not only Diet Coke but also anything carbonated (I used to love to combine 1/4 part [...]

Progress Through Baby Steps

After running around doing errands all day Saturday, I spent a large chunk of Sunday answering questionnaires.  One for the bariatric surgeon, one for the clinical nutritionist evaluation, and a 14-page one for the psych eval.  They arrived last week but I wanted time to work on them without interruptions (such as a kitty who [...]

My Not Very Good Day

Yesterday was a very hard day at work, with an unexpected conversation that left me feeling as thought I’d been run over by a truck. On a gray Friday afternoon, at the end of what felt like a long week that had started in Chicago.
Immediately after the bombshell there was a librarian’s lunch to [...]

Checking in and Catching up

My Ab Lounge finally is out of here, sold on Craigslist to a young college student who willingly parted with $50. I had been quite over-optimistic about what I was actually willing to do and that never seemed to be it, so out it goes. I already spent the $50 to buy a [...]

Loose on Newbury Street

Today was wonderful. Unlike the last two weekends, I wasn’t flying hither and yon or sitting in a conference session for work. I hadn’t realized just how much I needed the downtime of doing routine things and enjoying a pretty day.
Newbury Street in Boston is a shopping mecca for people with pots of [...]