D-day

Today wasn't such a good day for the novel. My allergies are defying my Claritin and flaring up anyway, and it's making me more (yes, even more) scatter-brained than the usual. I pretty much spent the last hour staring at the little bit of this new scene that I started yesterday, knowing I didn't like it and trying to figure out why, and what it needed to be instead, but nothing was coming to me, and I can't focus on it any longer. Oh well. At least now it has the whole weekend to incubate, so it should be ready to spill out come Monday.

Moving on: since I'm in no mental shape to write, I guess I'll spend the day doing maintenancy things, and finally forcing myself to get some of that dag-burned filing out of the way. I have a feeling I'm going to be mostly useless today, though, so we'll see how it goes.

Today is decision day regarding the Weight Watchers account, and I think I'm going to cancel it. The fabulous Fenwic pointed me to Sparkpeople.com, a FREE diet community with its own set of FREE tools, so I'm going to give that a try. I'm also thinking about setting up a spreadsheet to track Zone points that's based on the WW points tracker. If those don't work for me, I can always sign up to WW again in the future, and wait for coupon or a sign-up special, or even just sign up for one month at a time so I don't have to pay the huge fee up front. I'll let you know how that all goes.

I'm pretty proud of how well I've done all week at sticking to the healthy eating plan. Especially last night. Matt called me at work to ask me to pick up some burgers on the way home. I got him burgers, but I didn't cave to the temptation, and got myself a grilled chicken garden salad (no croutons) instead. I brought it home and made my own light citrus vinaigrette for the dressing. It was pretty yummy and satisfying, and didn't leave me hating myself the way a burger and fries would have. Best yet, I still had enough points left over for a glass of Merlot and a piece of dark chocolate. So go team me!