TJ North

Ok, first news is that I bought a truck on Friday. I can hardly believe I now drive a pick up. This is so funny, considering that a few short years ago you could not have found anyone more committed to the hip urban lifestyle. Now I drive a truck.  A red Ford, no less. I am getting waves of disbelief from friends and family….I will have to send pictures around. I am very pleased with it so far.

The past few weeks have been a total mess when it comes to food and exercise. If I want to be kind to myself I would say my attention has been sporadic at best. As I could have predicted, I am now feeling bloated and mushy and unhappy with myself. I was so proud of being able to say I was running, and now that the damn ankle refuses to heal I haven’t put out the effort to replace running with another activity.  I am going to see my newly skinny sister next week, I hope she motivates me. She just keeps losing weight, and I know she is working very hard to be an active, healthy person. I salute her, and want to smack myself upside the head!

I am way over my xmas budget and I still have to get myself through the family tour. It will be truncated as a friend of the family was killed in a car accident two days ago, and her family is waiting until after xmas for the funeral. She comes from a large, very scattered family and emergency travel at this time of year would be terribly difficult. And now the weather seems to have the major airports across the country shut down too.

Snow and desperately low temperatures are making me dread walking the dog tonight, but the poor animal has had hardly any exercise the past few days (me too!) so out we will go.

{later: a quick 2 km hike through the park, fresh air felt good.}