Weighed in this morning. 166. Down 22 pounds for sure. Then I spent over an hour trying on everything, and I do mean everything, in my closet. It very nearly all fits. Most of the stuff I thought was 10s are 11/12s, which are a little snug still. One of my two favorite dresses ever won’t yet zip up, but I think it actually *is* a ten. My other favorite dress (the green one you made me, Mom) fits very nicely. My *wedding dress* fits. My pinstriped grey suit is…
useless angsty sort of rant
Tomorrow is the 6 month mark (counting by Thursdays, if not quite exactly *day* days) of my Lent diet, in which I do not eat sweets. I’ve lost, give or take half a pound, 22 pounds in the last six months, and two jeans sizes. That’s pretty good. I feel much better and I think I look much better. I don’t even hate my hair. How’s that for weird? So it does not necessarily follow that this posting is going to be a completely useless frustrated angsty sort of stupid…
paintings! walkings! thingthings!
Worked out and walked this morning, that was good. Going to swim tonight. Let’s see. I’ve gotten about a thousand words written and have *some* more to do before I rearrange the whole chapter into something more bearable. And then two more to write, but I have an idea of where I’m going with them, so it should go just fine. That’s the Thursday/Friday goal, those next two chapters. I got my Mandarin painting yesterday! It’s absolutely gorgeous. I unwrapped it, and Ted said, “…Ursula’s going to be famous someday.”…
titles! release dates! squee!
We have titles! Iago gets two out of three; Cyrano gets the other. The books will be THE CARDINAL RULE (Cyrano’s suggestion), THE FIREBIRD DECEPTION, and THE PHOENIX LAW (Fred’s ideas). THE CARDINAL RULE will be out in December 2005. THE FIREBIRD DECEPTION is due out in spring 2006, but more specifically I don’t know. But! I also got a release date on THUNDERBIRD FALLS, which is due out in *May* 2006! That means I’ll have three Walker Papers stories out inside a year, and *five* books out total in…
ok. saner now.
Ok. A little saner today. I sent off the title ideas to Matrice last night and just finished writing my bio for the press release. I decided that today I’m going to take care of as much of the non-fiction-writing writerly stuff as possible today, so the next thing to do is … more OtherWorlds stuff. I must try to write “Urbane Shaman”, although I have no idea what to do with it. It’s only supposed to be about a thousand words, which is hardly time enough to get started.…