Reading, Weight and Movies.

Weight Update:
To save time on the weekends to do my writing. I decided to do my shopping on Friday night after work. I shop at Trader Joe’s. On the weekend the store is very busy and the shoppers have to navigate the aisles and maneuver around, up and over each other. So the choice to shop on Friday was an easy one. Now when I shop I just breeze thru and grab what I need.

The trouble is, out of habit, I grab the things that I tell myself no to. And yet they end up in the cart. I know the shop very well and visit only certain areas, and I can feel my hand reaching to the goodies I say in my mind no to. Then when I get home I try to make the goodies last longer. I figure if they last longer I wasn’t so bad. (See the lies I tell myself.)

Part of the problem is food is expensive and sometime I feel I don’t have enough for the entire week. So I eat the stupid stuff on the weekend. (Lame excuse I know but there it is.)

I also want stuff that is quick. (Quick I say, well a salad is very quick, and so is an apple, orange, or pear. But I grab the dark chocolate, cheese puffs and cookies. Dumb, Dumb, Dumb.)

“Self.” I would say. You are allowed only one goodie this week. This is killing me why I ask? Honestly I don’t know why I do it. Okay I am going to go grab a pear right now. Hold one moment please. As I say in my tenant liaison voice to my tenants on the phone.

I am eating a sliced up pear in a bowl now. I bought the pear last week and put it in my lunch. It got a little beat up in my lunch pack so I had it on the kitchen counter. Parts of it were over ripe so I cut those out and sliced the rest.

Which bring me to my next segment. Movies.
Julie / Julia. About a girl, named Julie Powell who wrote a blog about cooking all of Julia Child’s recipes, 541 in one year. And at the same time the story of Julia Child’s life and getting her cooking book published. A very adorable movie, just different time lines. In the movie Julie, the blog writer, had some weight problems also. Mostly because a lot of the recipes in Julia Child’s book had butter in them.

At the end of the movie Julie ended up a published writer with the movie. She got publish after the blog got noticed and an article was written about her in the New York Times. (Great huh.)

This next segment is about books.
I have been getting my books at the Library because I cannot afford to purchase book at the moment. I am busy paying bills that should have been paid long ago. (Yiks something else to write about.)

I just didn’t want to pay them, so now I am suffering, well I wouldn’t really say that. When I go to the library I can get as many books as I want. (By the way I am paying on my bills now, which is the reason I can't go anywhere. I have no money. boo hoo.)

I just go to a regular book store and jot down the title and then ask the Librarian if they have it. Most do so I put it on hold. The only problem is I don’t usually get them in the order they are written. So I hold them at home until I get the first one and then start reading. I keep a close watch on when the books are due back,then I re-new them, otherwise I’d pay a lot of fines.

(Popping a slice of pear in my mouth. Yum. Now several more. Wait I just finished the bowl. Wow. Proud of me right now).

Oh, by the way I wrote another piece for my novel. My heroin was badly hurt and my hero is worried about her. Can’t say how it will go now. Developing more.

I have books on how to write a good novel;, the author says don’t be afraid to let your character go thru things. So this is the going thru things, and also a way for the characters to bond.

Working on another part of the story, one that I have been putting off for some time. I wasn’t sure I could actually write it. (I will never know unless I try, right). *Wink* There is always the revising afterward to make it better. The best point is to just get the ideas out of my head and onto paper, or computer.

Working on breaking the habit of grabbing goodies in the grocery line. The next thing for me to keep up with. Any suggestions?

If you have a story to share, or ideas to help me break my habit of my drug of choice, food, or just to comment, all are welcome. Share, love, laugh, cry, grow and bond. Until next time.