Hey, some days I come up with better topics than others. 🙂 Today’s blog title refers to my newest toy, an iPhone app called WaterMinder, as I believe I mentioned on Monday. Interestingly, I’ve taken to downing a couple of big glasses of H2O before I even have my morning coffee–I wake up thirsty. Since ordinary water lacks pazzazz ( and I MUST have pazzazz), I’ve been adding sugar-free flavorings of the kind one usually adds to java. Works like the proverbial charm, for me at least.
Weight Watchers? Don’t ask. I started exercising again this week, on a regular basis, and I went UP two pounds. Yikes. I half expected this, being a WW veteran, but it still threw me a little. I’m only human, after all. (Oh, man, am I ever ‘only human’, but that’s a topic for another blog.) Naturally, I plan to continue–as previously stated, this ole cowgirl is a member for life. (Which is different, alas, from being a Lifetime Member. I’ll get there, you can bet your favorite saddle on that, but it’s going to take a while.)
The week has been a busy one–like all the rest of my weeks. Bet it’s the same on your end. 🙂
I’ve just started my good friend Lisa Jackson’s new book, CLOSE TO HOME. Yes, an actual book. It’s shaping up to be a ghost story–yeehaw!!!–and I’m already in its thrall. In fact, I have to be careful not to pick it up when I have other things to do–it’s that good. I’ve known Lisa and her sister, Nancy Bishop, for many, many moons–they are the most creative, friendly and all-around classy women you can imagine. Years ago, Debbie Macomber, Lisa and Nancy shared a room (we were all seriously poor at the time) while attending a Romance Writers of America conference–I forget where, but I have a vague recollection that it was San Francisco. Lisa and Nancy had already checked in and taken off to register for the conference and hobknob with other friends when Debbie and I arrived to find a note from Lisa waiting on one of the beds. It read, “Don’t eat the peanuts on top of the mini-bar–they cost NINE BUCKS a jar!” And since today Lisa is one of the most successful writers in the biz, that memory always makes me chuckle. (Although by now mini-bar peanuts probably cost three times as much and the price probably gives Stephen King pause. I mean, there’s ‘expensive’ and there’s ‘just plain ridiculous’. Furthermore, nothing in the mini-bar is going to be part of my Simply Filling program–except maybe the diet sodas and fifty-dollar bottles of water. Spending that much would make me feel like a darn fool.)
Well, I’m off to eyeball your comments, drink more water–I’m going for the shoulders, by George–eat something healthy, and WRITE.
God bless.
CHRISTMAS MEMORIES
I have so many precious memories of this, my favorite
