Howdy.

Okay, some new rules.

First, No one is allowed to write and demand that I participate in NaNoWriMo unless they're planning to struggle through the ordeal themselves.

Hmmm. Okay, that was just one new rule, but still. It's amazing the number of people who'd like to see me become entangled in the writing trap again but who aren't willing to stick their own necks out.)

Next, the diet. (It's my blog, okay?) I haven't weighed in "officially" yet, since I'm still (technically) at work today, but I have no fears from my upcoming encounter with the FNs. This morning's weigh-in at home was 1-1/2 pounds below what it was last Thursday, so I know I lost something with my (really) strenuous efforts to Be Good over the weekend. (I kinda binged at lunch on Saturday, but I made up for it with a celery-and-lettuce-supper.)

I did, in fact, go shopping. Two new pair of jeans, a pair of cargo pants, and one pair of dressier pants for work. (I can wear jeans, everyone else does, but these made me look thin, so I bought them. Thin, beautiful, intelligent and wealthy. It's an amazing pair of pants.)

No shirts or blouses, though. I took a good look at my wardrobe (and took seven pair of pants and eleven blouses to Goodwill) and decided that some hemming of my wardrobe full of over-long polo shirts would carry me though.

I spent yesterday working on the sewing project, which made me cranky since I am not domestic, but at least now I have clothes I can wear. I already owned an appalling number of blouses, most of which I haven't worn in the last couple of years but all of which now fit.

Not only that, I have pants two sizes smaller than I was wearing two months ago, which is, as you can imagine, a major ego boost. Since my diet buddy is out of town until Thursday evening, I needed a bit of positive reinforcement to keep me from, cough, having any little dietary accidents over the next four days.

Actually, now that I think of it that way, it occurs to me that this is a bad week for me to have made a breakthrough. I could have wallowed in salted nuts, potato chips, donuts, and fresh-baked bread, but noooo, I have to go and get all motivated and stuff and now I'll be eating celery and (blech) fish for four days instead.

If this diet wasn't working so well, I'd quit right now.

Lemme see...what else? I have to leave in ten minutes to go to a meeting off-site, so I'm trying to think fast and in consequence locking up my brain.

I meant to watch Andromeda, really I did. I understand Nick Lea is supposed to have a recurring role this season (although I'm not exactly sure which week he's showing up) but...I just can't bring myself to do it. I liked the show in the first season and then about halfway through the second season it started to really suck and then in the beginning of the third season it sucked really, really hard, so I quit watching it and now I have this sort of knee-jerk aversion to the very idea of it. If anyone turned it on and saw NL, please let me know how it went, okay?

Other than that, and to return to our original subject briefly, I have actually been considering NaNoWriMo seriously. I haven't gone as far as pulling out last year's disaster effort and looking at it, but I've been trying to get my brain accustomed to the idea of spending thirty straight evenings writing.

And now I'm out of time.