U(gh)pdate

No, I don’t know how you would pronounce that, if it really were a word.  But I’m a bit “ugh” at the moment so it seems appropriate.

I think I’m getting ED’s allergy/sinus infection/spring cold/bronchial infection mess, or at least trying to fight it off.  Everything from about the waist up hurts…the neck up especially.  I’m hoping I can just fight it off though.  So far, I’m surviving.

I was up at 4:30 this morning so I hopped on the treadmill.  (Okay.  I didn’t hop.  I don’t hop at 4:30.  I gingerly levered myself onto the treadmill.)  I did about 35 minutes (didn’t actually end up getting started till 5:15 so I had limited time) and spent about half that running, which is unusual for me to do before noon.  So I started the day off with a calorie deficit, which always makes me feel so much better than if I’m working out in the evening trying to burn off the calories I’ve already consumed.  It’s easier to not consume empty ones, too, when you’ve got that great streak going that you don’t want to spoil.

Also, if I don’t end up working out tonight, I won’t feel so guilty.  I would still like to, but I’ll do what my body feels like doing.  Lately, that hasn’t been much.  A little here, a little there…but I’m down about six pounds from the beginning of the year, so I’m not unhappy.

Not too much going on in my world right now other than the usual nonsense.  We’re moving Mom back to Oklahoma in June (not sure if I’ve blogged about that and too lazy to go check) so that’s starting to consume most of my energy.  I’m looking forward to going back and seeing everyone, but not looking forward to all the headache and stress of the moving process.  Also, I’d love to feel really great about my body by then, since I’ll be seeing people I haven’t seen in ten years.  So I’m trying to be really careful with food and get lots of exercise in, but my body’s not being super-cooperative.  I’ve had odd issues that I can’t really pinpoint a cause for…I’m putting it down to the joys of peri-menopause and moving on.

Today’s a big day around here…Earth Day, of course; Administrative Whatever-They’re-Calling-It-This-Year Day, and the birthday of one of my BFFs.  Very exciting.  The office is taking us out to lunch – a buffet, which used to terrify me, but not so much any more.  I’ve gotten really good at knowing my limits and being sensible; it’s almost impossible for me to “overeat” anymore.  I can eat really bad stuff – unfortunately – but I definitely can’t eat a lot of it!  So I’m not sweating it.

The writing is going so very extremely amazingly well (I swear I don’t use that many adjectives or adverbs in my real writing!) and that’s the main reason I haven’t been here much.  Colin and Meri have been demanding most of my word-stringing time and energy, and I am having such a good time with it.  Right now, I’m doing “fill-in” scenes – the way I write is sort of like a jigsaw puzzle.  I do the edges so that I have an outline, and then I work on major parts of the picture one at a time.  Then, when I have it all together so I can see what it’s going to look like, I start filling in bits and pieces here and there.  I’m almost finished with the fill-in, which means I can start nitpick proofing.  And after that?  It’s time to send it off.

Deep sigh.  That’s the only part of the process I don’t enjoy.  It’s the part that’s scary and sickening and can make you want to never get out of bed again.  But that’s okay.  I think I’ve finally decided that I really am writing for me, not for anyone else…so if it never sells, I’ve lost nothing, right?

So that’s sort of what’s going on around here.  The wheel keeps turning, and time keeps marching on.

Happy Earth Day!