August 17, 2004 ~ Early Leaves and Old Pants
Tuesday.
So, I did end up with poison ivy all up and down my right arm, but the repairs to Ryoga were luckily fairly inexpensive. (It was a broken axle.) The weather went cool again this weekend, and I swear it has felt like autumn, even though the calendar swears that we are still firmly in summer.
The trees disagree, however. Today I walked around campus and snapped a few shots:
The wolf rescue, which is at a higher altitude, had even more turning leaves, and the pumpkins there are already ripe. You'd think it were October.
This weekend I found a brand new multi-purpose weightlifting bench at the Goodwill for twenty bucks. Morgan has a set of weights (also found at the Goodwill for extremely cheap), but he rarely uses them for lack of a good surface to use them on. I put the bench together, and we decided that it should live in our bedroom. But, before anything new can live in our bedroom, it needs to be cleaned out and reorganized.
We are not done yet, but this weekend we did go through all of our clothing and weed out the articles that we're never going to wear again. The result was a mountain of clothes that we're going to bring to the Goodwill:
I also came across a pair of pants that had been tight two years ago, when I was at my heaviest. They are now eight sizes too big for me. I tried them on. I found it really hard to believe that my body really had changed that much in these two years. And I guess it makes sense. I mean, I lost about thirty-five pounds, and I'd carried most of that weight in my hips and tummy. It had just been so gradual that it was hard to notice.
The pants weren't just roomy, they were huge and would require major beltage to keep them from falling off. Morgan took a picture:
Pretty crazy, really. I haven't dieted or anything drastic like that. I just changed from my sedentary college lifestyle to my current habits of hiking three or four days a week for an hour or two and generally walking more to stores and such. What a huge difference a little unintentional exercise makes, eh?
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