This morning Ted was saying he was having second thoughts about getting an X-Box, even though he’s doing support for them now, since, he said, when would he have time to play? And would he really want to spend a couple hundred quid on the box, plus fifty quid a pop on games, to not play it? And besides, most of what he was interested in was the fitness stuff… To the last of which I said, “Well, if you really want fitness, you can always open the front door…
picture meme
snagged from : “When you read this you’re tagged (if, you know. you want.). Take a picture of you in your current state, no changing your clothes or quickly putting on makeup. NO PHOTOSHOP. Show your F-List the real you!” Not, mind you, that an unphotoshopped photo is any more me–the light is worse in the photo than it is in real life, for example–than a ‘shopped one is, but whatever. Me this evening, anyway. :) And Young Indiana, not this evening, but you don’t care, do you. :) Shout…
so annoying!
I went and bought some jeans and a few other things today, all except one of which I decided I would be hopeful about guessing the correct size but try them on at home and have to return them if they didn’t fit, because I thought that would be easier than manuevering Young Indiana around a dressing room. I carefully checked all the items’ tags against what the hangers said, because the shops are notorious for putting the wrong size item on the wrong hanger. The one thing I did…
other things
I’ve been doing my Pilates for about … a month? Six weeks? Now. I can’t quite remember, obviously. Doesn’t matter. My core muscles are distinctly stronger than they were. I don’t find Pilates makes me thinner–I can’t do a long enough workout to really get calorie-burning going–but really in very little time I do find it strengthens the ol’ core. I *have* done an initial “Pilates for Normal People” video. I just sort of figure I need to do two others–one a talking head thing to explain what I’m doing…
Walker Papers are a go!
I am exceedingly pleased to announce that the final three books of the Walker Papers are a go. Book six, SPIRIT DANCES (which is already written) will be out in April 2011. Book seven, RAVEN CALLS, will tentatively be out in February 2012, with books 8 & 9 coming out…*handwaves* After that. :) Yay! *does a little dance*!