dynamite with a laser beam

I had some errands to do at the mall, and I decided to do them today instead of Sunday (I can't go tomorrow), even though going around the Beltway that direction on a Friday afternoon seemed like the height of folly. And yet I got there in not too ridiculous an amount of time, picked up a couple of the camisoles I like best in two good colors, bought two lipsticks, found that my eyeliner has been discontinued (RAR! My kingdom for a chocolate-brown kohl pencil; most of the ones I sampled today were too dark or too yellow), bought a cute bra on discount, arranged to have the matching knickers shipped to me since they didn't have them in the store, and bought a half-dozen hand soaps to put (one at a time, I think!) in the ladies' room at work, because someone else has been known to do so and it seems like a good idea. And I did all this and got home before the sudden darkening rain storm started.

in unrelated news

I have done, every night this week, 45 or so minutes on the elliptical - 2000 steps, which is actually 4000 steps if you count one step with one foot as a step; the machine doesn't count a step until you get back to where you started, so; 700-ish calories and 120-ish carbs, in each case, which I don't know how it can know that, and I'm sure it's just guessing, but hey, there it is.

And I've been sleeping like a rock and having a hard time getting up in the morning. Physical exertion, man. Turns out it's a thing.

But I'm kind of digging it. Combined with pretty ruthless portion control I can already see and feel the getting-smaller effects (I am determined at least to re-lose the weight I had re-gained, if not to make further progress, because having half a closet full of stuff that you paid money to have altered and now doesn't fit is no fun), and all my limbs have been feeling pleasantly tired this whole time. It's actually kind of nice.

Plus of course I'm a big fan of being so totally over the mono that none of this has actually killed me. :-)