The View From Kalamazoo

Despite skipping the gym all of last week (had to wait for the bus to Girl Scout Daycamp, it wasn’t like I was doing something fun or anything) I managed to be .5 lb down Monday. I’ve tripled-up on ab/related areas machines and I hurt Tuesday. Yesterday did the same (another .5 lb down!) and I hurt today. I’m relegating arms/legs to every-other workout – I don’t want to bulk, and my legs are certainly skinny enough compared with the rest of me..I don’t need to make my Michigan J. Frog look-a-like connection stronger, thanks. Eliptical trainer still fills me with fear and loathing, so another round of the bellydance class this fall seems likely – at least it’s fun cardio. I look goofy, but it doesn’t bore me to tears and I lurve my coin scarf – cheery yellow jingly goodness.

Spent the whole weekend bonding with my grandmother’s new sewing machine. (no, I still haven’t taken mine to be repaired….and Halloween is coming. DOH!) All told 9 pairs of pants needed shortening, and the 4 that were not slims I darted so they had some chance of fitting with a belt on – slims are, believe it or not, still a little big on Em so you can imagine what the regulars look like. I looked it up – we’re actually 5% for height on the chart – but at…1% max for weight. Need to gain 1.5 lbs to make it to the 3% line on the chart. (I found a downloadable height/weight chart by age for girls so I can manifest even more parental stress over Em’s weight – why wait til the next appt. when this is a much more effecient way to beat myself up over it!)

Also found a lunchbox (on sale. yo.) she approved of this weekend (and glorious palettes of washable markers). School start looms large (YES!) and apart from any random supplies/donations to the classroom I hear about after she goes back the only thing I have not yet gotten is good athletic shoes, and I’m waiting on those (since my mom expressed excitement in taking her school-shoe shopping at the end of the month). I lucked into 2 pair of leather shoes for her – a mary jane type and a suede chukka – on clearance (my favorite word. no, seriously) and that’s clearance several times over so I got them for around $6 a pair. What a find! W00T! And we have a folder that says ‘Girls Rule’ in neon pink on a lime green background. Who could ask for more?

Lunched with thesis advisor yesterday. Was nagged to edit something for publication. Yippee skippee.