So...I'm trying. I've got a wedding next year and perhaps a few more in the works soon after and I need to be in good shape. Hell I wanna get married sometime in the next few years and i don't wanna be a fat bride. More than that I don't wanna be frighteningly obese where I can get very sick. And I haven't been feeling well lately and I think most of that goes back to my bad habits.
I started eating healthy yesterday. I really want to see where I go in a year. I need to be so much lighter. I dunno, is it possible to lose a 100 lbs in a year?
To be ideal and healthy I want to weigh 140 lbs. I have a long way to go. It may take me more than a year to do it but I need to. And I'm getting serious about it this time. I'm making my friend's wedding next year my first major goal. I wanna feel good and healthy by then.
For now, I'll start with my 10% goal. When I lose 23 lbs, I am going to reward myself and buy a television season or a dress. We'll see when I get there.
- Location:kitchen table
- Mood:
determined - Music:birds chirping
title: In Which Addison is Our Matchmaker
fandom: Private Practice
pairing: Addison, Cooper/Violet
rating: PG-13?
summary: Addison and Cooper go Christmas Shopping.
this fic is for: stop_theworld
they asked for: 1. Violet/Cooper
2. Fun appearance by another major character (or more than one)
3. Rubber duck (optional)
disclaimer: I don’t own the characters or the show. If you read this, you will probably realize that rather quickly.
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- Location:living room
- Mood:
busy - Music:Dick Van Dyke - Put on a Happy Face
So, as with so many things in my life in the last year or so, I managed to let my goal of even recording the books on here that I read fall to the wayside and be forgotten. Grad school sucked. Its done now I suppose, for better or for worse, and I'm teaching and I really just need to get my act and goals and life together. I also should write more coherently on here and be somewhat careful of my spelling/grammar/etc. I am an English teacher after all. However, I find that impossible though. Its almost as though I spend so much time in the rest of my life being correct that I purposely don't correct the things that I know are wrong. This is not a good thing. Oh well...
Random thoughts on this late evening:
I should grade.
I really really really hope Obama wins on Tuesday. Ever since I've been able to vote, no one I have wanted to have win actually wins. I hope this changes on Tuesday.
I love my roommates.
Its very sad that more trick or treaters don't come out now.
I am going to start semi publicly posting my writing and publicly post my first fanfiction soon. That scares me.
That is all. I need to go to bed.
God it seems like i must have read more than only seven books so far. it feels like reading is all i ever do. But I'm already tired ot reading plays so i have very little love left for any of this. bleh!
So this is my least favorite Hardy that I've read so far. Eustacia is a bitch and pisses me off, though i was very sad when she died. The characters were all kinda weird except Clym who was generally awesome and the future love of my life.
- Mood:
crushed
excellent play, scandalous and full of double entendre.
So this play was by a female playwright and is apparently one of the first. Virginia Woolf said women owe a good deal to her and i'll believe it. The play is interesting and funny and has a lot to say about women and their sexuality. The women are smart, well spoken, tragic, and often played open. Very, very nice as far as plays go.
- Mood: accomplished
But regardless, this only helps me to fall continually more in love with Hardy =).
- Location:bedroom
- Mood: accomplished
- Music:computer fan.
Ok so its been a slow start to the year. Between my own irrational fears about grad school and complete laziness, I haven't been able to read more than a few chapters of any book yet. However, I drove back to Fort Collins yesterday and on my way i finally managed to finish my book on tape of Children of Men.
It was wonderful. I wanted to see if because I didn't love the movie but I loved the premise and so i wanted to find the source material. Turns out the two have almost nothing in common except character names and the basic premise of infertility. Though the movie was pretty cool in its own right and starred Clive Owen who turns me on, i felt it was somewhat lacking in things i wanted to know more on. The book helped. I really enjoyed the extra political focus in the book and the characters and their motivations. The book's love story was a little dumb for me but i can deal with it. In both novel and movie i really really liked the fact that human infertility is never explained or understood. I think the book makes that point better and it really stuck with me. What must it be like to know science really didn't have any answer or explanation. What would sex become? How would the youngest people live? What would prisons become? Immigration?
A few things about the book really stuck out for me. I enjoyed the fairly unapologetic characters. Theo as the main character was fascinating. He ran over his child when she was about two and he never exactly regrets it. She wasn't pretty or particularly lovable and though he wants to, he finds he really can't feel anything.
I also liked Julian and how her child was fathered by an adulterous relationship and i like her conversation about how she feels about the fact that she never even loved Luke and how that makes it all so much more selfish. And of course i love the fact that she and Luke were both never tested for fertility because her hand was deformed and he suffered from seizures. Lovely fun little add in there.
And finally, what if this baby of Julian's were the last. How selfish was it to let it be born and have it live with the knowledge that it might spend the last twenty some years of its life never hearing another voice or having any human companionship at all. What a thought...
Very nice book and not a bad way to start off my count, even if it was just a book on tape =)
- Location:bedroom in fo co
- Mood: busy
- Music:text message vibrations
Six days into 2008 I have decided on my new years resolution. In addition to the typical lose weight, graduate, etc. typical things I wish to perform, I've decided that its time that i feel accomplished in a year. I only ever seem to be able to see the things that i don't do. But I've decided I want to see at least one thing that i do do. And so it shall be the books i read this year. I want to know what i do actually manage to accomplish. I'm gonna make this my book diary. Try and write at least every time i finish a book. And as its been a lazy start to the year I have yet to finish anything so i'm not behind on my blogging at all. At the end of the year, graduated and hopefully with job i'll be able to count up and see how i spent a year as an english graduate student. Wish me luck!
- Location:edgewood bedroom
- Mood:
nostalgic
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