back to school

Pretty good day so far.

• I came back to school yesterday and at the end of the day I was kind of tired, but otherwise fine. We'd decided I could go because Chris has class on Wednesday, so if I needed bailing out, I could call him. I didn't. So here I am, back again.
  
  Don't think I'll come tomorrow, though - 3.5 hours of class in a row is probably not a good idea this week. However, next week I hope to be back for good.
  
  I'm down to minimal pain meds now - like, 4 advil, 2 tylenol/day. And what I am taking, I'm mostly taking because of my leg. Weird, isn't it? I went under the knife two weeks ago and right now what hurts the most is my right leg, which has been numb since the surgery. Chris figures when they did the spinal they must have nicked a nerve. He says that as nerves heal, what you first feel is pain. Oh goody.
  
  
• Joined Weight Watchers Online yesterday. I had joined once before (before I got pregnant with Justin) and I really liked the philosophy (ie moderation) and the system but I didn't actually get much out of the meetings. Maybe it was just the people I was with, but they all seemed to be a lot wingier about their weight loss than I was. I decided it really wasn't for me when the leader led us through a 'visualization exercise' that went as follows: ( picture this )
  
  
  See, for me weight loss is not about feeling attractive or feeling good about myself or anything like that. It's about health. A balanced diet and healthy weight are better for you than eating chips and coke and being overweight. The fact that I look better at my ideal weight is a plus, but it's not the main point of weight loss for me. I got the feeling that (in Kingston, at least) the priorities of most people in WW were reversed - appearance first, health second.
  
  So, now I've joined again, but this time, online. So I can still get the tips and all that fun stuff, but don't have to go to meetings.
  
  
• Today is my mom's 60th birthday. It's also the day after the doctors were supposed to return her bone marrow to her. Hope that's gone well.
  

Anteaters Anonymous

I am part of a family of anteaters. Literally. Chris went to Sugar Mountain today and, as promised, found Justin some candied bugs. He got one box with four disks of chocolate covered ants, and one box with a chocolate covered grubs and crickets. I ate the ants, couldn't make myself eat the grubs and crickets. I've eaten sheep brains, chicken feet, cow's tongue, prairie oysters, sheepguts, and various bits of goats, sharks, and some reptile whose name I don't remember. But I inexplicably couldn't quite stomach eating a cricket. I think I needed some monetary incentive. $3 would've done it.

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I'm actually entirely caught up in my readings. That doesn't seem right, somehow.

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Visited with Karen for a while. I don't spend enough time with other non-law school related-grownups, and I really think I should. They're fun :)

Ooh, and I got the third and fourth Outlander books from Karen! Cool! Oil thigh and cha gheill and all that.*

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Happy Birthday medee6040!

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* ( Queen's University song, which I often think of while reading the Outlander books, set in Ye Aulde Scotland )