I haven’t been weighing in.  Remember me?  I’m the OCD-gotta-weigh-myself-every-day-maybe-more-than-once-kinda-person?  Oh I’m not gonna change back into the never-weigh-myself-because-I-don’t-wanna-know-kinda-person that I used to be, nuh-uh.  Lately I just need a bit of a break.  From the weighing.  From the counting.  From the day-in-day-out-pressure.

I’m still staying on-plan with food but I’m definitely not “kicking butt” in the exercise department like I was planning to during the month of July!!  Not yet anyway.  The month is still young!

Today I had to take my mom to her doctor’s appointment.  It went well but turned into an all-day-do-all-her-errands-while-she-has-me-captive thing.  One good thing is that I put in almost two hours solid walking.  Until my feet hurt.  My knees ached.  My back hurt.  I was hungry, thirsty, and cranky.  But, she’s my mom, whaddya gonna do.  It’s not like I can tell her No.  No I won’t take you to pick up your prescriptions?  No I won’t take you to WalMart so you can get more lilac baby yarn for the afghan you’re knitting?  No I won’t stop at the grocery store?  No I won’t push you around in the wheelchair?  No I won’t drive you to Subway on the way home?  No I won’t go inside and get your food for you?  Of course I wouldn’t say No to any of those things.  She’s my mom.  And she’s 82 years old.  And she’s not gonna be around forever.

In other news, I’ve discovered Facebook.  Yeah yeah it’s been there all this time and I’ve been resistant to going there and getting sucked in.  But I finally go and submit myself to the sucking-in-process and realize that most of my family is on there and no one told me!  Geesh I feel like the last one to arrive at the party!  It’s kinda fun though, once you figure out how it all works.  I actually found two old-old friends on there, people I haven’t spoken to in 10 or 20 years!!  Very cool!!

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