See? This is what I do. I start things, usually with enthusiasm, then for one reason or another all the air gets let out of my happy balloon and I abandon the project.

Since my last post, I started writing a book- I meant for it to become a novel. I dove in, wrote 23 pages(I think it’s really good so far!), then got lost in my plot and had to stop. I should’ve written an outline first and developed my characters completely, but 23 pages/4 chapters in, I feel like it’s headed in one direction when I want it to go somewhere completely different. I’m stuck. Small confession: I started writing it because I’ve gotten sucked into all these free reading apps that show up in ads on my phone that mostly have nothing but werewolf and mafia romance(didn’t even know that was a thing??) fiction, and the writing is mostly terrible- it’s hard to find good reading for free. Terrible is being kind, if I can be totally honest. Anyway.

Next- working on my fitness. I know I’ve mentioned my husband’s drastic weight change over the last 6 months… as a reminder though, he set a goal on his birthday in March (39), that he wanted to lose 40 pounds by his 40th. He started at 257, and he hit his goal in just over 4 months. He’s a freak, like all men when they decide they want to lose weight: they say they’re going to do it, walk a couple miles, and voila! Done. I have now actually started working at this myself, just within the last week or so. Haven’t lost any yet; right now I’m just trying to focus on getting in my 10k steps daily. Unfortunately for me, getting these steps in means that I have to get up at 4:45am so that I can walk around out in the dark, get back home, and shower in time to get the kids up and ready for the day. My husband gets to take his walks at night when the toddler monster (toddster?) goes to bed.

Let’s add another small stressor onto what I’m already dealing with: I would like to quit coffee. Quit caffeine altogether, actually. I’m trying to figure out how to do that and not have wacky side effects. Pinterest, please be my friend and help me with ideas for how to do this. Going to look into all manner of herbs and teas, cocoa, functional medicine, etc, and see what I can come up with.

Right now, I’m calling this post. It’s been too long since I’ve posted, and I don’t know what else to say right now. I’ll be baking over the weekend and possibly making some fermented sda, so maybe I’ll share about that next week.

Peace out.

-S