Archive for Jun 2007

Sat Jun 16 23:10:55 2007

Regarding Weight Watchers ... I am so far off the wagon that it's over the horizon and onto a different road altogether. When I stopped going to meetings, I started using Weight Watchers online to keep track of my weight loss, points use, and activity, but I didn't really like the site that much (not just that I had to run User Agent Switcher to get the site to believe I wasn't using Firefox and so work for me, but also because the information I needed always seemed three or four layers in) so, after a time, I pretty much tracked myself using OpenOffice Calc and only used the Weight Watchers site for recipes and weekly weight logging.

In January, I dropped Weight Watchers Online because I felt I under-utilized it for the $250/year it was costing. So, happy spreadsheets everywhere and self-tracking seemed to work well. I was logging everything and building projections of w weight loss by x date based on a current average loss of y per z.

Oh, yes, it worked great ... for a while. While I wasn't losing weight as projected, I was still having great fun making those projections. And then ... and then I fell of the wagon.

My last food journal entry is from May 14 and it's only a partial. Haven't touched any of my precious spreadsheets since then. Keeping thinking "Oh, I should really start journaling again. Even if I don't track points, I should still track what I eat," but I don't. Nor do I exercise. Yet I still want to lose weight?

Obviously, I need to find that damned wagon and get back on it.




Sat Jun 09 21:39:16 2007

The Husband surprised me last week by driving all the way up to myplaceofwork just to have lunch with me. Sweet of him, no? And a nice way to start off a long weekend. I had a holiday day I needed to use so I'd arranged to take that Friday off and do stuff with The Husband out in the Big Blue Room.

Mostly, this meant driving up to the Capital to check out the roses at Elizabeth Park. Like the Norwich Rose Garden, this garden is also an AARS-accredited public rose garden which, I guess, is supposed to award them a tidy amount of street cred in rose garden land. Or something. There were a fantastic number of roses in bloom, although not all were labeled, so I couldn't really tell you which ones smelt or looked best to me. There were some ruffled pink ones the size of nickels which smelled divine and reminded me of the ones the old farmers had trained against their parlor window, but does that help identify them? Not in the least. And not that it mattered. It was enough to sit with The Husband in a rose-y nook and quietly bake in the sun. (Oh, yes, we are all set for dotage).

Aside from the two and half acre rose garden, the park boasts several other nice garden areas as well as pathways, greenhouses, lawns, a pond with untidy waterfowl, and a cafe. We had rather nice lunch at the Pond House Cafe (after ice cream for elevenses) and stopped for more ice cream on the way home. I know, ice cream twice in one day. We are decadent and depraved people.

But well contented depraved persons -- and that makes all the difference.




Sat Jun 03 10:38:34 2007

What with the weather being nice and me having full weekends off, I'm inclined to do as much outside stuff on the weekends as possible before the twinkly glow of full weekends fades, the humidity creeps in, and I cannot be bothered to stir from the couch. Anyway, this weekend we hied off to the Norwich Rose Garden in Mohegan Park to sniff flowers and take in lots of healthy fresh air.

Prior to visiting, I'd done a little reading up on the Garden and found that two acre garden is one of the 130 odd All American Rose Selections accredited public rose gardens and features over 120 varieties of roses. At the time, 120 varieties of roses sounded pretty fantastic. Alas, when we visited, the garden didn't seem quite as fantastic as anticipated -- about half the roses seemed either new or so recently (and heavily) pruned they weren't more than greenish brown sticks. I hear the garden suffered a lot of deer damage last autumn and this may account for the less than stellar rose showings.

After we sniffed all the roses we could and canoodled on one of the shady benches, we explored the rest of Mohegan Park -- quite a nice experience, really. The wisteria lined walk which skirts the pond was quite lovely even though not in bloom (must be simply fantastic when in bloom). We managed to while away a not insignificant portion of the afternoon walking the little woodland path around the lake, watching the fishes, and whatnot.




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