It doesn’t look like we’ll get any snow this year. With February right around the corner, I’d say we’ll get to get out of it this year, even if all we usually get is a dusting once in a blue moon that doesn’t usually stick. The weather’s actually been very spring-like these last few days. I can wear shorts in the daytime and open the windows.

Tom’s been a bit rundown lately, but hopefully he’ll perk himself back up over the weekend. I made him a ziti and meatball casserole and now he’s in bed. And I’m now waiting for Maliheh to return home from the open mic she’s at. She didn’t want to be there but because the owner lent her some equipment for the Christmas show, she was there helping out. She checked my blog and messaged me from there on her iPod. I was surprised when I saw the Four Oaks, NC hit, though she says she’s actually in Hope Mills.

I never got the receipt of acknowledgment I was supposed to get upon submitting my manuscript, nor did I get a reply when I asked about it at another email addy, so I guess I’ll take it as a sign that it’s not meant to be.

This diet and exercise regimen I started last Tuesday seems to be the most effective so far. I woke up at 136.0 pounds on Tuesday and now I’m 133.8. Along with cutting my calories, I’m running super fast in place (though sometimes I zip up and down the trailer which is 50’ long). I do this for 5 minutes every hour for about 10 hours so my body is “tricked” into thinking it ran for nearly an hour at around 10MPH. I broke a “wing” though. I flap my arms super fast to work the arm muscles while I’m running and now I have a sharp cramp-like pain on one side of my upper back. No more wing-flapping today, LOL.

I want to get those latex exercise resistance bands so I can work more of the muscle groups in my arms.

We’re usually our own worst critics, but even I agree my body (not my face, unfortunately) looks much younger than it is thanks to all the years of doing thousands of ab crunches and other exercises. My stomach’s almost perfectly flat despite being as short and as heavy as I am.

I’m now wearing earrings for the first time in years. The good ear went in easily, but the bad ear took me a few minutes. All I really have right now are danglies. I want to get something small (and shiny) that I can wear all the time. I’d like a pink or clear gem of some kind.