Like whoa.

Tonight, I discovered that since October 2006, I've lost 50.2 pounds! One person said, "Wow, you've lost a first grader!" Ha!

September 2006




December 2007

Muscles and more

It’s 2008! Already, we’ve had a busy year:

On January 1, after a night of chinese food and movie watching on New Year's Eve, we started out 2008 with a trip to the gym and a switch to healthier eating. I’ve been cooking a lot of new foods: whole wheat couscous, polenta, mini-meatloaves, and chicken fried rice (Geoff says it’s as good as our favorite Chinese place). After one week, Geoff lost 9.8 pounds! The next week, he lost 4.6; I lost 3 and then 1.6. We’ve been making gym dates and using the mp3 players we gave each other for Christmas. It’s fun (and motivating) to do this together.

Geoff went to 2 Bruins games during the second week of January – one with Charlie and one with me. The one we went to was against the Montreal Canadians. We were sitting 8 rows from the ice and were surrounded by a bunch of Canucks who had driven down from Montreal. Geoff and I seemed to be the only ones in our section rooting for the Bruins, so Geoff felt he had to cheer as loudly as possible. He got really into it, but, to our dismay, Canada won.

One of our favorite bands, Lake Street Dive, is doing a residency at Toad this month, so we went and saw them during the same week of the Bruins game. They were sporting sweater vests and performed beautifully as always. We hope to go again this week for their last January Toad performance. Toad is such a tiny bar, literally a narrow hallway with room enough for a tiny stage, the bar, and one row of tiny tables. It’s cute though; it’s always great to see Lake Street in intimate spaces like that. I’d like to see Jukebox Stories come there, too.

We’ve been looking at apartments here and there, though we haven’t decided when exactly we want to move yet. We looked at one in Maynard this morning that had some great attributes: Geoff LOVED the deck; I loved the sunny kitchen and Jacuzzi tub in the bathroom. Sadly, the laundry situation was a bit scary. We’d have to carry our basket of clothes down some open basement stairs, across a dark, dirt floor and under a low pipe to the back corner where the washer and dryer are. At least it wasn’t coin operated, but it’s still not preferable. My ideal would be to just have it in my apartment. We aren’t in any rush to move and we aren’t on a lease, so we have some flexibility to find what we really want.

That’s enough for now! I need to go drop some medicine and stuff some cotton balls into my ears, put on my favorite winter hat, and go to bed. I'm the coolest sleeper ever.