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Today I had to run to the big grocery store and get a few items for supper (pizza; not good for my goal of healthy eating), and fell in love with the organic aisle.

I love granola and found a package by Bob's Red Mill that I can snack on or add to my breakfast yogurt. In addition, I found some flax seed, which I've been reading aabout. I steered clear of the organic potato chips, however. :)

In the produce section, I noticed that there is a whole display of organic fruit and veggies. I normally shop at a local small-town grocery store and if it carries organic products, they are few and far between.

I am so excited to go back.

How has the healthier eating been going? Well, I'm four days in, and so far, I do feel somewhat better since I've quit eating donuts for breakfast. I haven't had that daily sugar crash I usually get. I know I was eating because I liked the texture. I am no longer quite as ravenous during the day or in the late afternoon before dinnertime.

Now, if I could just find some time for some exercise...

I've been drinking more water, too. Who knows, I might be feeling better just from that alone.

From couch potato to.... ?

Well, it has been a LONG time since I've done any sort of organized exercise. DD & I ride our bikes when it's warm, but other than that, I am a couch potato. However, that is about to change.

DH has had lower back problems for some time. His chiropractor advised him to start walking 2-3 miles per day. So we're joining a fitness center. It will be good for both of us, because I need to lose about 30 pounds (could stand to lose more), and DH needs to strengthen his back.

Tonight we begin. :) We'll see how it goes.

Getting in shape has been one of my long-term resolutions, but I never seem to follow through. I think that with both of us on board, we can encourage each other.

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Yikes! It's been forever and a day since I posted. Not so good for keeping up with posting every day in 2008.

Let's see...

I had an emergency appendectomy on February 22. I thought I just had the flu, but decided to go to the ER and, 2 hours after I arrived, they said yeah, you have acute appendicitis. Glad to know it was an emergency! I had to take a whole week off work to recover, but thankfully, my gut healed quickly.

I learned to knit in the past few weeks, one of my long-term goals. I joined ravelry.com.

I've sold a few more things on Ebay, but I need to sell more. Like everyone else struggling with finances, gas and food prices are insane. I try not to think about it.

Knitting is better than therapy.

The winter has been long and long and long. I keep waiting for the weather to warm up, but other than seeing a few robins, the cold temperatures drag me down.

I am reading Anais Nin and feeling sorry for myself.

Tempis Fugit

What a way to start November: unmotivated, with a cold, and DH having to have surgery to remove his gallbladder next week. Sigh. Oh, wait: is it really November already!? Hard to believe, isn’t it?

At least I have the majority of my Xmas shopping done. I’m not going overboard like last year. DD is getting one big present and some smaller presents and that is it. No guilt from Walmart ads on tv or elsewhere to tell me I don’t love my family enough without buying this, that, or the other. DH & I agreed not to go overboard on one another, either.

I hate being sick with a cold. DD had a cold a couple of weeks ago; actually, it was more like the flu. Then DH got a cold after we took him to the ER last Monday for his gallbladder. He has stones the size of marbles inside. So it will be removed Nov. 7. When it rains, it pours.

Let’s see. Five gratitudes for today:

1. Going to see “The Bee Movie” this weekend with DD.
2. trick-or-treating last night with DD as Snow White
3. self-help books like “What Happy People Know” and “What Happy Women Know,” both by Dan Baker
4. cuddling with the dog
5. my dolls
6. and a bonus: how could I forget: starting Nanowrimo and actually making the word count goal, and also making this blog entry.

I’m so interesting, aren’t I?

If you like to shop on Ebay, check out my items. I have a few art glass pieces and have more stuff to add at some point in time. If you want to get some cheap books, check out my stuff on half.com.

I did hardly any preparing for Nanowrimo this year. I just felt so totally unmotivated. Last year, I wrote every day in October to prepare, starting out at 25 words and adding 25 each day, but this year, ALL writing seems to have fallen by the wayside. I have no excuse, other than sheer laziness. Somehow my paper journal no longer interested me, so I kind of quit journaling in there. Maybe the Creative Well needed to be refilled.

I almost didn’t sit down tonight to write for Nano, either. I am so exhausted from this cold. But I knew that if I didn’t TRY to sit down and write tonight, even without much of a story idea, I wouldn’t write for Nano at all this year, and I don’t want to give up that easily—before I even started! One of my goals for this year’s Nano is to complete it without being on the Emotional Express. It seems that I can only complete Nano if I’m in depths of despair. This year, I am not in the depths of despair, so I want to tough it out with sheer dogged determinedness rather than using it to escape my emotions.

Ugh. I keep obsessively checking my word count. In MS Word, I have written only six pages. SIX! Yet, 1667 seems to be a somewhat insurmountable goal—or at least it did earlier, when I had only managed to type out 200+ words. But I know I can do it. I won Nano in 2004 and again in 2006, and I know I can win this year, too. I just have to put my mind to it and make it a priority.

I have to concentrate on my STRENGTHS and not my weaknesses. I have to appreciate each moment and live in each moment instead of in the past or in the future. And I guess this is it for tonight because the dog is whining to go out! More tomorrow.