I really hope I got my mother's good genes.  As a woman in her mid-late 50s, she could still pass for late 30's.   I can't pass for a teenager anymore, but since most people regularly peg me as mid-20's, I'm still doing okay.   Considering the changes over the past year or so I probably look younger now than I did in 2010-11, having lost about ( Read more... )

I still don't write here much, but I still will make a point to do so once in a while.

2011 was a very good year for Justin and I, new house, new kitty, and minus 50lbs for me.  Hoping this one can be at least as good. 

Sometimes I consider starting a new LJ, getting a fresh start given how far I've come since beginning this, but doing so I might as well just make something only I can read, at the rate people are dropping its use ( Read more... )

I'm an aunt for the first time on my own side of the family.  One of my younger sisters delivered a baby girl on the 28th, naming her Helena Carmen.    I got to visit her the other day and spent several hours just entirely enthralled.   Leslie's dramatically mellowed out, aside from dealing with a psychotic stalking mother in law, so I'll enjoy ( Read more... )

I miss the days when more people used this.

I need to stop watching horror movie documentaries late at night ( Read more... )

I've lost 42lbs since last year's health screening, most of which was accomplished since spring.  I have about 40 more to go before I'm "done."  My blood pressure's good, at least there's never been problems there.  113/65 ( Read more... )

It takes about 20 minutes to walk up and down my street, enough for a brisk daily walk.   The houses here are interesting and pretty, and the neighbors are friendly (no more loud rap music on the other side of the walls for us!) so I think we'll be very happy here.  

I've been swamped with emails just about every day. So I'll be fairly brief.

GM was amazing. vierkilau ran a kickass mage game and I'm super excited to see what happens in the next 6 months.   I was happy to see so many of the people I love playing with making it down.

The pub crawl was a huge hit, we had twenty-something people along the whole time, and we ( Read more... )

It's been a busy few months ( Read more... )