Today, 2.5 miles in about 40-45 minutes.  Tonight I'm making spinach-feta pasta for dinner...indulging my vegetarian daughter for a change.

orange.

Wednesday

walking 40 minutes -- 2 miles or so

-4 pounds in the past month

oatmeal for breakfast

1/2 fried chicken breast

biscuit

pack of crackers

cole slaw

oatmeal

Yeah, I have started exercising again!  Went to the dr this morning and found out i've lost 4 pounds without too much effort on my part.  I guess I am inspired or something.  Also, the medicine combo I am taking now for depression seems to be working.  I know that exercising on a regular basis will also help improve my mood.

The kids only have a week or so more of school.  I can't wait for that!  Should be a nice summer of sitting poolside....relaxing!

headaches

I've been experiencing increasingly-bad headaches lately.  I've had migraines in the past, but not for quite some time--in fact I can't even find my imitrex Rx, although I know I have it somewhere!

My recent headaches are accompanied by weird smells.  Specifically a burnt smell.  It's almost as if the smell and the headache are melded into one sensation.  I feel certain that if I could dispel the odor, the headache would also go away-- although intellectually I doubt that it would happen that way.  This has been going on for some time, but I've just now fully realized that the odor I am smelling isn't actually present (no one else can smell it, anyway).  My migraines/headaches have always been triggered by smells (Downy fabric softener is the worst!).  And I also have a very keen sense of smell in general--meaning I can almost always smell something before anyone else can.  But I have not been conscious of odor "hallucinations" before this.

Well, I'll be off to the doctor on Monday.  Wish these kinds of things didn't ALWAYS occur to me on a Friday evening!  

This is the first pastel drawing I've done.  I enjoyed it, although I do not think I have a great sense of color by any means.  

random sketch from my sketchbook.  If you like Indigo Girls music, you might recognize it:

wow

I used to post about what I ate.  that was a LONG time ago.  Now I eat just what I like, and you know what?  I weigh the same now as I always have.  go figure!!

I am going to post some of my artwork here.  yay me!!