Grass and Sky

Having a bit of a mini vacation this week. Just the knowledge that I don't have to go back to work until Thursday was enough to help this morning get off to a much better start than most Saturdays. I slept in till almost ten, watched a bit of whatever bicycling olympic event was on (150 miles? that's just crazy!) and then went for a nice long walk in Schenley Park. All told, I managed 4.25 miles in just a little over an hour. Yay exercise!

I listened to the last part of a 5th Doctor audio - The Mutant Phase - at the beginning of the walk. As well as being a fun Doctor Who audio, it gives me a great opportunity to add a device to my Steampunk Five costume. In this story the Doctor uses a handheld tracking device. Since it's an audio and thus there's no imagery, I can make this device look however I want. *glee* The audios may or may not be strictly canon, but I'm going to run with it anyway, since Five uses so very, very few gadgets.

Along the lines of costuming, since I've lost a little bit of weight, I decided to try on my Calvieri Girl corset to see how much progress I'm making in fitting back into that costume. Surprisingly, I'm nearly there. I was able to lace the corset up almost tight together. There was, sadly, a good bit of chub spreading out below the bottom of the corset that still needs to be worked on, but I'm pleased with the level of progress being made on the slimming front.

In other news, I had a pretty good Friday night, as well. lyda_pearl picked me up from work because of bad weather and we went out to dinner at Silky's. Then we treated ourselves to ice cream. I really wanted Coffee Coffee Buzz Buzz Buzz, but Ben & Jerry's inexplicably closes at 6pm every day. I had to settle for some sort of chocolate and peanut butter concoction at Baskin Robbins instead (Squirrel Hill has more ice cream shops than reason allows, these days - B&J, Baskin Robbins, Coldstone Creamery, along with Rita's Ices, Jazzy Fresh and I think one other frozen ice/yogurt type place, all within a block and a half of each other). And then we watched the Opening Ceremonies. I enjoyed most of it, especially Rowan Atkinson. And when I first saw Glastonbury Tor, I thought it looked mighty suspiciously like The Party Tree, atop The Hill. Only part I didn't much care for was the creepy giant baby head. That was just a little too wrong for my tastes.

Hopefully I'll have some fun adventures to post about later on, but that's all for now.

I'm starting a new diet today. According to www.calorie-count.com, if I limit my calorie intake to 1236 calories a day for seven weeks, I will reach my weight goal. It looks so simple and easy when put like that. Except, I have a feeling I'm going to find that 1236 calories is not very much at all. I'm not very good at being hungry. I tend to stop wanting to lose weight when I'm hungry. However, going to the gym isn't doing enough all on it's own, so I suppose I need to help it along.

Wish me luck.