It's been such a long time. I'm still fasting and praying, though not every week, and not always both days within a week. I'm weary. I never fast the week I get my period, it's just too much.
I'm busy with my knitting, I have so many projects going, and so many more planned and it seems like there aren't enough hours in the day to get them all done (if I didn't do any housework there would be more, but that's not really an option). I finished my first pair of small-gauge handknit socks, and well, all of you who say, "you can't go back to store socks" you're all right. They are comfy and not baggy and fit perfectly. But I have too many other things to knit right now to make me more socks at the moment. I finished a secong pair of aran-weight sock/slippers for my son, who is 3 in November. I'm mostly-done with the first of a pair of matching gift capelets for the 3- and 5-yo daughters of my MIL's eye doc, who has taken such good care of her. I need to re-knit the frogged (unraveled) hat that turned out too big for my husband last year. I have two half-finished lace shawls, one I started years ago for my daughter and a new KAL one for me. I have a gift shawl for a friend at church started. I'm halfway through a tubular shawl/poncho for my daughter that I started last year for Christmas and is probably too small now. I still have to finish the armholes on a baby vest I test knit.
I need to knit dd a button-up vest to keep warm in school, and a WINTER hat for ds. I'd like to knit ds another vest for while the other is drying on the rack. A herringbone scarf for dh, a winter hat and cowl for me, fat aran slipper/socks for dh (and me), a spring/summer tank top or two for me. I'd really like to knit a skirt for me, but want to re-lose some of this weight. You get the idea.
As for losing the weight, well, I haven't really done any excercise worth mentioning since ds was born. (I know, ugh, it disgusts me.) I used to really LOVE working out, but now all I do is find ways to avoid it. BUT, as a family we have started a new thing. Hubs has done it for a couple of years now, and suggested we join him. It started with him passing a gym sign that said, "100 in 100". It was the last hundred days in the year, and he decided to do "miles". Well, September 23rd was the first of those hundred days this year, and so far I'm on track (uh, I haven't done today's yet, but if I miss one I always make it up). I'm not doing miles, I'm doing workout videos, with an option of doing 5o push-ups and cruches instead. After 6 days, dh tells me he can see a difference, feel the change in muscle tone. I tell him he's crazy, it's only been 6 days, but he insists. Dd buckled her buckle one notch in today - she was so happy. The thing is, exercising helps us want to eat better too.
I had my 30th birthday earlier this month, and while I don't feel older, it *does* remind me that I'm not getting younger, and must take care of this body of mine so I don't feel old before I *am*. The desire is easy, it's the follow-through that's hard. :)
