Day 33... slacker update

So, I am falling down on the job! On every job, except running. Haven't read my Bible daily, haven't blogged to keep myself accountable, AND had two glorious cooking-baking days. :) You know what that means. Although I feel I showed incredible restraint. These were three spectacular batches of cookies. Peanut butter chip (thankfully it was small and everyone loved them, so I didn't feel like I could eat a lot of them), molasses crinkle (yum! Old fashioned joy in the shape of a cookie), and the best batch of frosted sugar cookies EVER. I really need a name for those. Sugar cookies just does not describe them at all. Any ideas will be considered.

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I have been running my little heart out. Two days I actually went twice... remember, I said I get extra points if I ever exercise twice?? Well, I gave myself extra points. :) Yesterday I think I went six miles. I'm not certain, because at the usual halfway point for four and a half miles I turned right instead of left, and went into a neighborhood I hadn't run in before, and haven't measured. I ended up on this loop and nearly did it twice before I realized what I was doing... if you have ever been to Water Country, you probably remember an attraction called Hubba Bubba Highway. You get in, either with or without a large innertube, and the current pulls you around a big circular path. It's fun and relaxing, not fast, but the current is strong. It's a popular attraction, and can get crowded (hence the "highway" part!) and when you want to get out you really have to be prepared for it. If you miss the exit area or someone's in your way or the current is too strong and you simply can't get over...well, you go a few more times around than you intended. This is how I felt for a moment yesterday... Hubba Bubba Holly. Stuck on an unfamiliar loop. It was an exhausting run. I don't know why, but it really wiped me out. I wanted to quit several times but kept thinking that I'd have to write that in my blog then! So I plodded on. I kept thinking that if I hadn't caught myself I could have been stuck there a while. Kind of like in REAL life...when I am not paying attention I can really get stuck somewhere I don't want to be, and it can take so much work to dig myself out.

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Six pounds. Slow progress, but progress nonetheless. My Bible reading... I will catch up today! And get back on track. I will need to find a better system for that. Today.

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Day 33, wow. I really need to focus. There are not even six weeks left until the wedding and I am not near my goal. (although- I think I am doing pretty well in the fight against LIMFAC's in general!!) I am really looking forward to my beach weekend. I have found several lovely beach quotes and poems, but not nearly as many as I expected to find. I keep posting them on my friends' facebook pages, or mine. My little way of saying, "Yay! I am excited!" I imagine my friends are rather tired of it but until they say something I will keep doing it. :) I have developed this year a real love of poetry, and I love Googling little bits and pieces of poems or famous quotes. Probably driving everyone except myself nuts.