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Exercise and dolls

January 27th, 2008 Leave a comment Go to comments

Last October I lost five pounds and kept it off until the end of the year. Then in January, I was on the road a lot and ate a lot of fast food, and comforted myself more than I should have with food. I didn’t exercise over the holidays, and all told, I’ve gained back two or three pounds and a point of body fat over the course of the month. I want to get back on the metaphorical horse, but it’s so freakin’ cold outside. I love the snow, I hate the cold. Maybe I’ll NetFlix some Firm DVDs. The woman they’ve got on the front page of their website looks like she’s gone a little too far. Eat a sandwich, woman!

Steve’s having to work today. He works a lot on weekends. Poor guy. I complain about exercising in the cold, but he’s been walking a mile up to the Lynx station and taking the train into work to get a little exercise and also save money and wear and tear on his car. Whatta guy.

At right: just before I left for Richmond the other day, I took this picture of Steve, Emily, and the Groovy Girl dolls. He’s a good dad.

I realized last night that I’d charted the full-size Charlie Brown stripe wrong, so I need to go back and redo it. Fortunately I haven’t actually knit the stripe, just charted it with paper and pencil. I know there’s software that’ll do it, but I’m on a Mac, I don’t know that there’s something out there for me.

Still kind of sleepy, having gotten to bed late last night. Today I need to hit the library, Goodwill, and Home Depot, and hopefully a coffee shop in there somewhere.

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  1. January 27th, 2008 at 14:12 | #1

    Isn’t Goodwill closed on Sundays?

    Is the train station only a mile from you? Seems farther. If it were only a mile from me and I worked uptown, I’d probably do that too. Seems like a good exercise. Guaranteed 2 mile walk every day. Cool.

  2. January 27th, 2008 at 14:12 | #2

    Isn’t Goodwill closed on Sundays?

    Is the train station only a mile from you? Seems farther. If it were only a mile from me and I worked uptown, I’d probably do that too. Seems like a good exercise. Guaranteed 2 mile walk every day. Cool.

  3. January 27th, 2008 at 16:19 | #3

    Oof, are they? I just found out the library branch I wanted to hit is also closed on Sunday. Well, at least that cuts my errand list for today.

  4. January 27th, 2008 at 16:19 | #4

    Oof, are they? I just found out the library branch I wanted to hit is also closed on Sunday. Well, at least that cuts my errand list for today.

  5. January 27th, 2008 at 17:49 | #5

    Did you want to use something like Excel for your charting? We downloaded NeoOffice for our Mac, which has a Word-like thing, and Excel-like thing, a PowerPoint-like thing, all kinds of stuff. And it was free! They asked for a donation, so we did.

  6. January 27th, 2008 at 17:49 | #6

    Did you want to use something like Excel for your charting? We downloaded NeoOffice for our Mac, which has a Word-like thing, and Excel-like thing, a PowerPoint-like thing, all kinds of stuff. And it was free! They asked for a donation, so we did.

  7. January 27th, 2008 at 17:53 | #7

    Good point. I have Excel, and I did use it to chart… something. I don’t even remember what it was now. But I’d forgotten all about that, so thanks!

    Maybe tonight I’ll have time to look at the instructions on how to make Excel charts the appropriate height/width ratio for knitting charts.

  8. January 27th, 2008 at 17:53 | #8

    Good point. I have Excel, and I did use it to chart… something. I don’t even remember what it was now. But I’d forgotten all about that, so thanks!

    Maybe tonight I’ll have time to look at the instructions on how to make Excel charts the appropriate height/width ratio for knitting charts.

  9. January 27th, 2008 at 18:05 | #9

    Ooh, that’s cool! 🙂 I’ve never knitted from a chart before. Maybe I should find a simple one to try sometime. 🙂

  10. January 27th, 2008 at 18:05 | #10

    Ooh, that’s cool! 🙂 I’ve never knitted from a chart before. Maybe I should find a simple one to try sometime. 🙂

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