Does It Count?

I'm down to 196.4 today. But I'm not sure it counts because I was sick yesterday and still am today. I did virtually nothing yesterday that required me getting up from the computer desk because I was so lethargic. I made some phone calls, held Julie, but my house is in total chaos as a result.

So today I'm going to try to convince myself that getting at least my kitchen sorted out would be a good thing. I'm missing Bible study this morning because of the sickies, so I guess I can argue that a good use of my new-found time would be to work on next week's study. But I can do that later.

I'm just feeling blah. I slept until after 7 (I usually get up at 6-ish) thinking that I'd let the kids have a bit more sleep, and that we'd deal with the consequences of Caleb being late to school. But I'm happy to report that Caleb was already awake when I went to get him up, so we were able to get him delivered on time. All three of us girls were still in our PJs as we delivered Caleb, but nobody outside the car was the wiser. So now I probably should go shower and get dressed. I'm hoping those things will invigorate me and make me feel like a real person because now I just feel like a slug.

Tonight is the writers' group. I missed last meeting, but I really want to go this time. I'm vacillating between wanting to read them "The Pencil Bully Affair" and just e-mailing it off right now to the magazine. I'm anxious to move forward. Partly because I want to see if they'll actually print it and partly because I have another idea for the magazine but they don't accept simultaneous submissions. The new idea is a quickie article about what I've learned from my children about my relationship with God. Things like God likes it when we obey Him the first time He tells us to do something. Kinda light-hearted but things that have really hit me over the last couple of years. God doesn't like tattletales. Hmmmm.

Anyway, I'm going to go shower now, knock the stink off, and use some fru-fru soaps to lift my spirits. Funny how fru-fru soaps always do that. Especially the ones that have the matching lotion and body spray so I can really smell nice. Like bamboo (?). I have some stuff now and I think it's bamboo and lotus. I dunno. It does have kiwi seeds in it for exfoliation. Because we all need to rub fruit by-products on our bodies to sluff off dead skin.

Golly. Just writing has made me feel better. :)