YES!!!

198.9 as of this morning!

That was my original 10% goal and I became emotionally attached to that number even when my 10% goal shifted upwards to 206 after I fixed my starting weight.

Today all I want to do is my weekly grocery run and then go to Santa Fe to drop my fabulous new ring off to be sized. It's a 7. At my thinnest in college, I wore an 8. Big knuckles. This is my "I've reached my 10% goal weight reward." Technically I reached that goal several weeks ago, but like I said, I was emotionally attached to 198. Now that I'm there, I can have the ring sized and wear it happily!!!

Now on to my new career (hopefully). I worked on the Pencil Bully story from our England time last night. I need it to have at least 1000 words and the first draft only had 721. I don't have a good way to wrap it up yet, and I don't have any scripture in it (because I'm going to send it to "Today's Christian Woman" first). I sat down and edited it in about an hour last night. It felt nice to put pencil to paper and do some work. I'll type in the changes later today, print it out again and go to work. Too bad I don't remember all of those fancy editing marks I supposedly learned in English. Maybe I can find a cheapo writer's handbook to keep in a drawer. Remember those from high school English? I think we kept one for a long time, but am pretty sure we tossed or donated it during a move.

Anyway, I need to hop in the shower if I'm going to get to Santa Fe this afternoon. As far as I know, all the kids are still asleep. It's 8:50.