A Light Through the Darkness

I can't believe it's almost October. *sigh* Where did this year go?

They go faster, you know, the older you get, until one day, you're standing there with sand under your toes and it's all the sand that's run out of your hourglass, and it's on the beach and there's no way to get it back. Yuck, morbid thoughts on a Monday morning - not a good thing.

Anyways, it's been a few days since I've posted, and so it's time to update again. I took the weekend away from the internets, and it worked well - I got nearly 3k done on my Last Rites synopsis yesterday. Lots of plotty goodness, and I'm thinking I'm really getting a grip on how to end the story. I also showed the first bits of what I thought was going to be a novella in my elven world - yeah, well, let's just say that Underhill will be getting its own synopsis very shortly. I have a good beginning, but I need to refine the rest of the idea for the novel. I might cannabalize some of the plot from Treaty of Betrayal to use in this.

Weight is up a little this week - not happy about that, but it's a process and I accept that. I did make the gym twice last week, and beard5 and I went this morning as well. This week, the goal is three days (Monday, Wednesday and Friday). Also, we signed up for a session with Andrew, the personal trainer, to design plans for us for next Monday. My goals? Strengthen my knees and lose my belly.

Food-wise, I'm not doing that badly, although the hard cider and pizza and cinnastix yesterday did NOT help. I managed to keep my breakfast journal all week - today, I'm going to try and keep a full day's journal. I need to email my nutritionist my journal from last week - yet more accountability. I'm finding I need that.

And lastly, today I did not bring in any soda. I am going to resist buying a soda as long as possible. Today, I believe, I will start the detox.

Good morning, everyone! It's a dreary Monday morning, but I am bright, chipper and rarin' to go!

Yes, this really is me. :D

Got up this morning and went to the gym, after a slice of yummy quiche that I made yesterday. I need to get juice tonight - tea takes too long to cool in the morning. I rode for 20 minutes on the exercise bike - long enough to know that I was working out, but not long enough that I couldn't walk or sit afterwards.

Very happy. Will update more later.

I went to the gym today! Now I'm learning Project 2003 - OMG, I'm in love. I gotta get this for my home computer.

More later.

Well, the kittens have achieved oneness. So much so that when I put Bear and Sebastian in the bathroom for the night tonight, Tayla cried until I let them out again. *sigh* So Argus is going to have to learn to deal with little bells and kittens running through the house at all hours of the night.

I got a new review of Horseman today! Please check out:
http://www.eternalnight.co.uk/books/g/griswoldfordvalerie/notyourfathershorseman.html

And I went to the gym. Hit one mile swimming today - not going to hit my goal of 5 miles for the month of December, but I'm transferring it to January. I want to see how far I can go. Maybe I'll see how many miles it is to swim the English Channel, and start charting my progress. I wonder how long it would take me? Yay, a challenge! Which I need, because I gained again over the holidays. :\ I'm currently at 285. Blech. My goal weight? I'd be happy to get down to 200. I'd love to be at 160. But I'm aiming for 200. So, we start eating healthier (made the yummiest dinner tonight - lots of broccoli and homemade cheese sauce - very healthy and not high in calories! Go Rachel Ray!).

Bear and Sebastian go to the vet's for the first time tomorrow. I have to clean out the car first - finally. I've still got stuff in it from Harpers - which was LABOR DAY!!!! I am so bad about cleaning. Really and truly. I hate it. But I need to do more.

Okay, enough whining. I'm heading to bed, in hopes that kittens will follow my lead. Until next time...

Okay, so it's early afternoon, but it scans better with morning. :p

I've had a busy day already, and as I was driving home from the gym (yes, the gym - more on that in a moment), I realized that I needed to reschedule my life a wee bit, so I can stop rushing from thing to thing.

So here goes.

Argus and I joined the Y (we get to go to both the Nashua and the Merrimack Y for the same price) yesterday, and this morning I hauled myself out of bed (later than I wanted to, but I did it) and went down to swim. I swam 500 yards (the pool is 25 yards long) and boy, I'm sore now! I could barely stand up straight - so I relaxed in the jacuzzi for about 10 minutes. It felt HEAVENLY - worth the price of the membership right there! *grin* Anyways, there was a calculation on the wall at the Y: 70 laps = 1 mile. So I've a new count to keep up with - I'd like to hit 5 miles by the end of the month. That's 350 laps.

So, new meter:

20 / 350 (5.7%)

The Merrimack Y is right down the road from us - about 10 minutes away (welcome to NH - anything less than a 1/2 hour away is "right down the road.") As I was driving home, I realized that I was already wanting to go back and swim again. Good thing. However, I also realized that I have a very badly thought-out schedule to fit this into. Bad thing.

So weekday mornings are now swimming, cleaning, doing emails, LJ, and cooking. All running around will be done in the mornings. If you email me after 2:30 pm EST (because I'll be in the shower by then), the email will not get read until the next morning. Sorry, but that's the way it's going to be for a while. If I have time to write in the mornings, great! That's an added bonus.

Weekday nights, after I get home from work, are going to be writing. Strictly writing, because I want to be in bed by 1:30 am, and up by 9:30 am. That gives me 8 hours of sleep (which I need!) and time to write.

So I might not get a lot of writing done in December, because of Christmas. BUT, I'll still have weekends, and after January 1, I should have some more time in the mornings. So we'll see how this goes.

Had an awesome idea in the jacuzzi for the sex scene I'm working up to in Dreams. Since my plot suddenly took a right turn (duh, why didn't I realize it was going to take Alis a COUPLE of days to make these charms, which gives James and Sapph a chance to get to...ahem, get to know each other better), I think I might actually hit the 80k mark on the first draft. I haven't updated the count in a while, so here it is:

51,162 / 80,000 (64.0%)

Oh, and I'm giving up posting on most, if not all, of the boards I'm on. I just can't keep up. I'll still cruise FM's boards once in a while, but that's it.

Off to fold laundry and shower...