La Bene Vita

Friday

1. I had a talk with the ten-year-old this morning. We both agreed to try harder to be nice to each other. So we're having a good day.

2. SUMMER CAMPS! OMG. Our camps are a huge success. The older kids had been together three days when they did this:


Reach 300 students at MTMS   by 12/31/11.
We have officially had a record new enrollments month in June... and the month still isn't over, so I expect an even larger final number. On the other hand, we've also had a record withdrawals. Still, our overall growth is on the positive and even significant.

Reading: One book per week.
Finished Eldest, and now I need to download Brisingr on my Kindle. It will be the first Kindle book I actually pay for (not that I'm stealing books, but the collection of classics I downloaded were all free!)

Writing:
(1) Blog at MT.com   by the end of Wednesday: D'oh. I started one... what happened to that... *digs around*
(2) 30 minutes of daily freestyle writing: Not remotely, but I might be forced to. I wrote a fantasy short a few years ago that my friend Tony, a local high school art teacher, has used in his classroom for character sketches. Well, Tony obviously really likes the story, because he's been talking about collaborating on a graphic novel for awhile now. He gave me a book to read, which I never did, but then earlier this week, he actually sent me an outline of the panels. I'm supposed to read them and comment. Since I barely remember the story, it will serve as a revision opportunity. And since someone else is pushing it, it may actually happen.

Now, on to the bacon.

Count points:
Morning weigh-in: 165.8 yesterday, 166.4 today
Yesterday's points: I started to count, then lost track. I think around 35.
Today's food log:
1.5 Coffee
1 Granola bar
8 Bacon

I'm considering going on this diet where I plan my food every day. Here's the problem: I'm addicted to food. And unlike other vices, you can't give up food cold turkey. Well, maybe cold turkey, and hot turkey, too, but not food altogether, since we require it biologically. (Damn it.) Therefore, "acceptable" choices are not black and white. But if I plan my meals, it's unacceptable to stray from them. And I'm fairly sure the plan won't include bacon. Delicious, salty, crispy bacon...

I just want to get back down to 145 again!! That was soooo sweet. But not salty, like bacon.