Life Viewed Through an Amber Focus

I have a follow up appointment in Seattle today at Virginia Mason. I may be too wiped out to post chapter 3 of The Direct (and Not so Direct) Approach tonight, but will post it on Wednesday if I am. I slept better last night but am still pretty tired. Weight loss is going good. According to the scale I've lost 6.8 pounds this week (had a bit of a whoosh this morning of 1.8) and 33 pounds since the sugery. It'll probably slow down next week. The first week of a diet always tends to be pretty good for me and then I settle into about 2 pounds or less a week.

Bad Firefox!  Go to your room!  You know, for all that Firefox is supposed to be sooooooooo much better than IE, I am totally not seeing it (other than ad block).  That puppy (er...cub) crashes on me just as many, if not more, times than IE ever did.  If I could throw invisible internet software against the wall right now, I would.  Is Chrome any better or would I just be trading for more of the same?  Between that and stupid LJ not stupid editing correctly in stupid rich text editor, I am about on the ceiling I've been driven so far up the wall.

On the bright side, day 3 of my diet is going well.  No headaches, no (non-computer related) grouchiness, no cravings and I'm down a total of 1.4 pounds.  Which is like a total of 27 since the surgery.  Only now I'm trying.  I have a lot more energy, too.

Not too much going on today so far.  I sorted and folded and hung up and otherwise put away six loads of laundry.  What? (Stop judging me.)  So I got a bit behind.  At least they were all clean.

Doing a bit of writing.  Deadline for finishing this fic is Sunday, and I'd really like to not see another deadline go screeching past me without fic.

Are other people still having trouble editing on LJ posts?  Particularly those of you using Rich text format.  I'm having trouble changes things once I preview them.  Well, I change them, then I hit preview, then it shows it's still there even though it's not on the posting screen.  I published it anyway the other day and even though I'd taken out the whole comm title completely and just shortened it to TTU, what I'd originally written with the extra little head between the u and the s of then_theres_us (my original typo was still there).  I hesitate to post fic when I'm ready, because invariably, even with three people looking at it we all miss a tihng or two that gets into the published version.  If I can't go back and fix it it is going to drive me nuts.  Are these problems happening in html?  Because I may very well have to finish teaching myself html if that is not because I'm sick of it.

Day 2 of the diet went okay.  I have a headache from carb withdrawal and I took a nap in the middle of the morning from 10 to 12 because I was all foggy headed.  Much better at this end of the day.  Still have a bit of the headache but it has reduced by half.

Someone sent me one of those glowing letters I sometimes get through Teaspoon's mailing system to praise some stories I had written forever ago.  Make me happy to see they still hold up in someone's eyes.  Feedback like that is always such a wonderful surprise and it really lights me up.  It also leads to so many things.  That's how I met Amy who eventually became my first beta.  And how I met Victoria as well.

Speaking of Victoria, I saw her precious little girls today.  I cannot believe how big they have gotten.  Or how gorgeous they are.  Considering how drop dead gorgeous V is and that Peter's up there pretty far himself, I guess I shouldn't be stunned by the beauty of their babies.

I took about a week off from writing because basically I wasn't doing anything other than banging my head against the wall.  I found a prompt that really grabbed me from the then_theres_us ficathon, which is harder than it sounds.  There's a few hundred prompts there and only one jumped me viciously, though I did have one that went kinda sorta maybe that I'll look at again when I finish this one.  I woke up at five this morning and couldn't get back to sleep.  That's not quite as bad as it sounds as I fell asleep before midnight for a change.  It's the first day of school today so I didn't even try very long to get back to sleep.  Instead I opened up a word document, looked at my prompt again and started to write.  I think it's going to be too long to be comment fic.  It almost is already and I'm just getting into it.

I'll write on it some more after I get my second kiddo off to school.  I'll take him in about ten minutes.  Then I'll write until it's time for my dentist appointment at 11:00.  Hopefully I can finish it today and maybe work on LoF, although that's probably too much to ask.  I feel in a much better place with writing, though.  Maybe I'll never get back the ability to churn out 2000 words a day, but a couple short fics or chapters a week would be nice.

I started swimming again on Monday.  I did 15 laps.  13 is 1/4 of a mile.  It's nowhere near the 45 I was up to before I got hurt again, but it's a start and I can't push myself too hard.  It's not even been two months since the surgery yet.  I am going to try to swim every other day, but we'll have to see.  My body felt better afterwards.  Swimming really helps to loosen up the back.

I started a new diet this morning, too.  So far so good and no food cravings.  We'll see where I am at the end of the day.