Well, even though I feel confident that this weight is a bullshit number, you can't help but be buoyed up by such good news. Plus, I spent the day doing one of my most emotionally comforting activities: decorating Christmas trees. I love digging the ornaments out of the closet, gently unwrapping each treasure, and finding this year's honorees their perfect holiday homes. I climbed up and down the stepladder at least 400 times today, moving ornaments, rearranging, adding a ribbon here and a snowflake there. I only managed to get one tree fully complete: the second one, new this year, is still a work in progress. It was necessary to expand my canvas, because I gleefully confess to somewhat of an ornament addiction. I will end up decorating two trees with essentially the same number of ornaments that I used on a single tree last year, and still have over 200 ornaments on hiatus for this season. That won't stop me from picking up "just a couple more" before January, in addition to the ornaments I tend to get from students and the little masterpieces my sons will create here and there over the next month.
At night during the holiday season, after everyone heads off to bed, I sit in the dark and the silence and look at my tree shining. It fills me with an all-too-brief measure of profound peace. In that moment, all is well. So tomorrow, weight up or down, work up or down, parenting up or down, at 11:00 PM, I will be joyful. Join me.
Breakfast - Mexican omelette from Marquez Bakery
Lunch - oops...
Dinner - ground beef with pico de gallo from Marquez Bakery
Exercise - up the ladder, down the ladder, up the ladder, down the ladder...
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