It's been days, seems like a week!

I have not posted in quite a while, but all is well, dear bloggers, here in Somewheresville. Spring has arrived, the crocuses are blooming, and the buds are on the trees. Right now the sky is letting loose with some much needed rain in this parched land. I have been planning my garden and I hope to start my seedlings this week. I hear other people planning theirs and I am inspired to push the conventions of my usual tomato-zucchini-basil-cucumber design. I think I'll plant some corn, expanding the plot to allow room for two seperate plantings. One will be all tomatos, basil, rosemary and parsley. The other will have Buttercup squash, lemon cucumbers, 1 zucchini, and the corn. I'll surround both gardens with marigolds to keep the deer and rabbits away. I'm also planting sunflowers this year. By July and August I hope for a bright and fecund reward for the effort I put forth this spring.

Healthwise I have never felt better. I'm down to 204 lbs. from the 215 lbs. I weighed at my last physical 2 1/2 weeks ago. I'm not eating any meat, except for the weekly 3 oz. piece of broiled salmon. My calorie count is hovering around 1200-1300 c.p.d. That means three meals that are very filling but lack the saturated fats of the ham and cheese sandwiches I lived on. To be honest I think I was going through about 4 lbs. of cold cuts a week. Add to that the whole milk, cheeses (yummy French and Italian stuff, 75% fat), and ice-cream, it's no wonder my triglycerides were so high. My liver couldn't process that much. I'm also excersizing everyday. I burn off about 325 calories on the treadmill and then I work my abs for another 30 minutes. I think that my doctor will be very happy in June when I go back for a check-up. My goal is to get down to 190 lbs and to maintain that through the new eating and excersizing habits I have taken on.

I have three papers due in the next 3 1/2 weeks and I think I'll start the first one on Wednesday. This will be for the Cultural Diversity Through Literature class and will be called "Magical Realism and Post-Colonial Cultural Disassociation in Latin American Short Fiction". It's not as complicated as it sounds, and I'll keep you all updated.

My life hasn't been crazy or filled with angst lately so when I called my sponsor the other day he told me that I can call him when things aren't going well. I agree, of course, but I certainly am not going to pretend that they aren't. I am reaping many of the benefits of working the Steps and it shows in my general demeanor. I am calm, collected, available, and patient. I am not panicking about the future and HP seems to be solving many of my most baffling problems. HP is doing for me what I cannot do for myself. My whole attitude and outlook upon life is changing, and I'm not, I repeat, not, over-elated about these things. I'm just plugging along, doing what I need to do today so I can sleep at night.

Speaking of sleep, I gotta go do that. Night all!


Johnnyboy