Still not dead. Or on hiatus. Really, this is not a hiatus!
I'm still doing physical therapy, to the tune of 40 minutes of abdominal exercises and stretchy-type things every evening, plus trying to get regular cardio type exercise every day. My abs are really strong now. I was getting less and less enthusiastic about PT (it makes me feel better, but it's really boring), then I measured my waist and it was smaller than it was back in September, which is my baseline for my measurements because that's when we ordered the bridesmaid's dresses. Now I'm more enthusiastic about the PT. Less pain should be enough to keep my interest in the therapy, but you can't measure less pain with a tape measure.
The Princess is still getting married in January. The bridesmaid's dresses came in last week and mine is at the seamstress now, getting taken in. The dress is pretty good. The Princess chose the designer (Bill Levkoff), the color (European Satin Red), and the length (full), but we bridesmaids got to chose our own dresses. I picked this one, number 403. 403 looks not very exciting in the front, but is bustled up all fancy in the back (that's the official picture from the designer's website, not a picture of me in the dress)(pictures of me in the dress are more comical). The train is rather longer than you'd think based on the picture, so I'm going to have to figure out how to add a little bustling to keep it out from underfoot at the reception. I just know that if I don't, someone (maybe even me) will step on the train and the dress will get yanked down and wouldn't that make a great addition to the wedding album? I'll have to get right on that, as soon as the dress gets back from the seamstress, a mere week before the wedding.
Right now on Cooking for Today, the guest chef is doing something atrocious to shrimp in the name of traditional Japanese New Year's treats. They pureed raw, peeled shrimp with potato and some other kind of starch, now they're patting the resultant paste into a rectangular pan. It looks rather gray and pasty.
In other cooking news, we made a Guinness chocolate pie. It is too bitter. We may give up on the pie and stick to cake.
398 words | December 14, 2006 08:40 PM | Real true storyGlad you're still at it. A writer writes. I have neglected my log these last few months and have more stories to write in my head than I've written down in the last month. What to do.
Posted by: woolstar at December 22, 2006 09:15 PMYeah, I have little stories too. Not as many as when I was in school, though, so I feel hard up for subject matter. And then there's all that PT. I think if I adjust my schedule (and my attitude), I'll be able to get back into my writing ways.
Posted by: 100wordminimum at December 22, 2006 09:50 PM