A Bonafide Writer

             I have, from time to time, tried my hand at writing fiction.  I have started other blogs with burning bed themes and other desperate topics but they never went anywhere.  I just couldn’t maintain an interest in the topic.  So…I have decided to close out those blogs (especially since I did not indicate they were a work of fiction to begin with, which I should have) and try my hand at non-fiction for a while.  What a pity; I had such high dreams of becoming a bonafide writer, ah well I guess it isn’t meant to be.

                I was thinking the other day that on August 15 of last year I had my partial mastectomy.  Wow! Over a year ago now; cancer free, it sure sounds good to me.  I am now down to seeing two doctors for follow-up cancer prevention/detection.  I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I am very lucky.  DCIS really is (as my surgeon said) the cancer you want if you have to have cancer; and apparently I did have to have it.

                A few weeks ago we started a new diet; I hate to call it that because it really is an entire new way of eating for us.  I have lost a few pounds, nothing to write home about but still I have lost.  The, let’s call it a system; is Called the Trim Down Club.  They give you a meal plan based on your BMI and your goal weight that includes complete menus with three meals a day and three snacks a day. The snacks are substantial and the meals are filling, they include recipes and healthy foods and work on a fat burning concept of food combinations.  All in all we think it is worth sticking with for a while and see what happens.  Don is losing a steady 1 ½ pounds every week.  I vary, last week I maintained and did not gain or lose.

                We have had the cross country kids over twice so far this year and are looking to have a third time soon, first the entire team came over for a spaghetti dinner in August and then the girls were here for pizza and a movie just the other night.  If the boys can ever make up their minds and agree on a night they will come for their own pizza and movie night.  The cross country season is nearly over, hard to believe but it’s true.  October is just the Crestline meet the MBC, district and regional meets that’s it unless someone goes to state in November which would be awesome though unlikely.

                That about brings me up to speed; not really, we went to Delaware for a short vacation at the ocean in July and it seems as if we did a few other things, at any rate it always feels as though we are busy,  though at the moment I cannot recall what else we did.

                So…I think I’ll go get ready for a nice long walk in the early fall sunshine…

                There is always hope.