i won't even bother

Jul 21, 2008 at 6:29 PM
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I *was* going to post a "what I've been up to for the past year" kind of post - started it a couple times, actually - and then I realized how pointless that really is, because the one person who's still reading me from a year ago already knows everything I was going to say. The rest of you would have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about. So... a totally fresh start it is!

I got the best package in the mail today: a couple jars of sour cherry jam, from my friends Carly and Art. Well, backing up, a couple weeks ago, Adam and I went strawberry picking - and the next logical thing to do was make a ton of jam. Art saw my pictures on flickr and asked if I'd consider a trade; they'd just gone cherry-picking, and made a ton of jam themselves. I feel bad that I didn't mail out my end of the trade till today - it's actually really difficult for me to get to the post office - but hopefully they'll forgive me when they see what I stuck in the box other than strawberry-rhubarb. (Blackberry-lime and cherry-pomegranate, if you must know.)

40/365: the logical aftermath of strawberry picking

I haven't been doing a lot of knitting. It's not that I don't have time or energy, or even the desire - I just don't have the motivation. My Ravelry queue is now 7 pages long and I wish I had some magical way of knitting everything, because it's all stuff I really want. I just can't bring myself to do the work right now.

Not that you can really tell from these pictures anyway, but I've lost a lot of weight. It isn't something I was trying to do. My medications got switched, and it completely screwed with my appetite - and so I'm down 53lbs since January. I'm not as excited about it as you'd think I'd be. My health is something that plagues me constantly, for starters, and weight loss is usually the first indication that I'm heading for a hardcore crash. On top of that, it's really kinda personally confusing to now be a fat activist who isn't fat - I feel like a traitor, even though it isn't something I chose. I know this is always going to be something I struggle with.