Yesterday I got my glasses in the mail from Zenni Optical online.   The quality doesn't seem too bad for what I paid, $8 for one pair and $9.95 for the other, plus an additional $4.95 per pair for anti-glare coating.   Click to see them on my face:

First, my old glasses, purchased the traditional way awhile back.  You can't see it here because of ( Read more... )

Ian has this weird red discoloration on the end of his nose this morning. I asked him what happened ( Read more... )

Check out my new layout and user pic... I love it!  I was getting pretty sick of the dark. 

 So I've been perfect on my diet since Monday, and yesterday at my work weigh-in I was down...  8.1 pounds!  Holy crap.

I went to a new doctor earlier in the week... Doctor Barbie has apparently gone on maternity leave, so of the two other female D.O.'s in the practice I decided to try the one who is closer to my age.  I like Doctor Barbie a lot but ( Read more... )

Yesterday was the first on-plan day I've had in awhile.  I actually had to tear the apartment apart to find my Core materials, and yet still I was taken aback at how far I'd strayed from the plan.  Wound up eating 7 points just at breakfast because I forgot that:  heavy cream in my coffee is a low-carb thing, not a WW thing;  the cereal I've been ( Read more... )

I've been floundering on the diet for some time now, as you've probably guessed by the lack of my mentioning it.  Getting involved in the contest did not motivate me like I'd hoped, it only added an additional note of embarrassment and anxiety to my week.  I've been bouncing up and down within the same 5 pound range for weeks now.

Yesterday I ( Read more... )

 "I think the kid is not the only one who is going through a manic phase."  - my husband ( Read more... )

 This week:

Purge, purge, purge!  Books to HPB, "stuff" to VOA
Put together a box of books for storage
Sort through junk bin, get rid of all but basic tools & supplies
Purge cleaning & cat supplies
Take filing cabinet to trash
Set up filing system in what used to be the junk bin
Clean the fricken apartment!  Jeez.

Future weeks:

Go through storage lockers.  ( Read more... )

 I'm on a major roll with purging crap out of our apartment right now.  For years I've purged periodically, but have stubbornly clung to a lot of stuff because I think I might need/want/use it someday.  It would be a shame to get rid of the room humidifier that has lived, unused, in its original box for probably eight years now.   Because you know ( Read more... )

 I read something on a message board today that I thought was interesting.  Sometimes when you find you are saving stuff you don't use, it's because you wish you were a-person-who-does-a-certain-thing.  Like, you have several DVD's of foreign films on your media shelf, because you want to be a person who likes foreign films, even though whenever ( Read more... )