Quote of the day

“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”
~Dr Seuss
Thank you for not minding, my friends.

Project: Healthy

As of this morning, I officially hit my first weight loss goal—I’ve lost 15 lbs in 6 weeks. Next goal, to lose another 15 (total 30) by the end of March when I have my next medical check up.
I know some of you are worried about me, so I told the doctor that I’m [...]

Project:(Un)Healthy

This week I’ve gotten very, very frustrated.  In the first 3 weeks I lost 10 lbs by pushing my calorie consumption down to 500 per day instead of the 1200 – 1500 the doctor recommended.  But now, in attempting to bring my calorie count up to a level I can live with long term, I’m [...]

Project: Healthy

Week 3: 4 lbs.
Total: 10 lbs.
I’ve decided that instead of doing these updates as posts and making people feel obligated to comment, I’m moving my tally into the sidebar. I’m only write a post for significant events.

Welcome 2010

Every January since 2005 I’ve made the same resolution, to treat my body as Wabi-Sabi.
“Wabi-Sabi is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete.
It is a beauty of things modest and humble.
It is a beauty of things unconventional”
–Leonard Koren, Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers Poets & Philosophers
But that can’t be the case this year, though it [...]

Catching up

It’s been so long since I’ve posted anything other than pictures here that it’s hard to overcome the inertia and put some words together now. I’ve been swamped with the house fix-up, true, but there’s more to it then that.
It’s been an accumulation of little things.  In the cleaning, painting and recarpeting I’ve had [...]

It just figures

In today’s mail, I got an order to appear in court because the woman who caused the crash I was in is disputing her ticket for following too closely. No doubt it’s on the orders of her insurance company, but it’s still annoying that I’ve got to spend an afternoon downtown telling the story [...]

Random Bullets ala Parts-n-Pieces

I backed off my therapy schedule, thinking I could handle it alone.  Not a wise decision.  The nightmares are back, worse than ever, so I’ve got a call in to schedule extra appointments.
I just finished up 4 weeks of physical therapy on my knee with very limited success.  So the next step is:
I’m scheduled for [...]

Not a chance

Ahistoricality commented on another post: I’m not the first to make this point, but our nation’s “zero-risk” approach to life is going to paralyze us if we don’t start pushing back on it pretty hard. This is a huge personal issue to me, so I’m going to devote a post to it.  Thanks, A!
As a [...]

Revoked?

Meredith and I have an ongoing disagreement about what to do when we lack knowledge.  She muddles through on her own (and usually triumphs eventually), while I immediately ask for help. Then she tells me she’s revoking my feminist card.
For example, this summer we were at a big box home improvement store looking for moving [...]

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