Weekend Update

What a weekend! We got out an hour early on Friday so that was good. Saw Ember and Sammie that night and got the plans for AWA.

We spent a good part of the day Saturday at AWA but had to leave around 18:00 or so because we were all knackered. Had dinner that night with some new friends and Ember and Sammie, making the second night in a row we were up really late. I gave Ember her Littlest Pet Shop toy (the Turtle and the Parrot) and she made the appropriate squealing noises and I got a hug, so a good ending to a good day.

Got a haircut, then spent most of the day today sleeping and doing laundry. I had lots to do because for the past few weeks I’ve only been doing necessities, so I had a lot of towels and sheets and whatnot to wash this time. Picked up Sammie and met Ember for her lunch and bought some toiletries that I was out of. Took Sammie home and then packed up to come back to the project.

I’ve got the normal Leaving Day blues right now, if I wasn’t already so tired I’d seriously consider hoping back in the truck and going home. I’ll be OK tomorrow, I just hate Leaving Day because there’s nothing to do when I get here and I can sit around a mope about not having any friends here. I’m so homesick right now and I’ve only been gone three hours, and two and a half of it was driving.

Oh! I’m back down to 272 lbs! Hooray Me! Now I’m only up six pounds from when I started the project. Ember’s got me back on my diet so I should be able to pick up the pace on the weight loss again now. I’ve started doing sit-ups and push-up pretty regularly too, just trying to build muscle tone so it’ll start showing as I lose more weight. The ultimate goal is 180 lbs, which is ten pounds under the “ideal weight” for my height and frame size, but I have a great love of all foods chocolate, Mexican and Italian, all of which are easy to gain weight with, so I want the extra ten pounds to play with.

I might elaborate on some of this tomorrow, but right now I’m going to try and get to bed.