The quest for a new blogging platform continues. I have some possibilities with potential, so we’ll see how it turns out.

So, I’ve decided that Monday is going to be the day that I kick start my weight loss plans. I figured that Monday would be a good starting day, considering it’s the day after Thanksgiving, so there will be a lot of calories to walk off. When I go to Mum’s for dinner on Sunday, I have to remember to grab my gloves and toque from my old bedroom. Need to be nice and toasty for walks, considering autumn is in full swing here and we’re already experiencing late November temperatures. I figure a work out DVD in the morning, plus a walk in the evening should get me off to a promising start. I’m going to be starting myself off on my PGX and daily multivitamin, and bumping myself up to 2L of water a day. I will be unable to get off the coffee, but instead of eliminating it altogether, I’m going to try to switch it up for tea more often and then reward myself with a latte or something every once and a while.

Memo to me: grab a notebook to use for a food diary when downtown later. I was watching the Dr. Oz show and he did a segment on binge eating. Keeping track of what you eat and how you feel while you eat is supposed to help break you out of the binging habit, so I’m going to give it a go.

I finally got my monroe piercing done (I got it done this last Tuesday). This makes for piercing #26. This one certainly feels different than my madonna did. Even now, three days later, it’s very tender and swollen. All of the usual tricks that I used for previous piercings have failed, and I’m not sure what to do. It’s not infected as far as I can tell, and it isn’t bleeding, but the swelling is a little on the excessive side and it has me concerned. I look in the mirror and it looks like I’ve been punched, or have had some surgery under my lip. I’m starting to think that maybe it wasn’t such a good idea. The benefits I get certainly outweigh the negatives, but in the mean time my body is really hating me for this.

Once this heals, I’ve decided no more piercings for a while. I took the picture with my cell phone, so forgive it’s poor quality. And the shadow in the picture is not me pursing my lips (like everyone seems to think), it’s my phone. My phone is wide and almost every picture I take… there’s a shadow in it somewhere. If there’s no shadow, it blurs. *rolls eyes*

Hopefully I’ll have the Black Bird fanlisting up in a couple days… I also might open a button exchange. Haven’t decided on the latter yet, though.