my life is a hobby...
i hurt. i'm usually pretty crazy about the sunscreen because i'm really, really pale. if i didn't have freckles i would probably be an albino. and there's the whole family history of skin cancers and such. and i don't like having a sunburn. but today i picked blueberries. i didn't think i'd be out there very long and it was about 10am so i didn't think the sun would be that bad anyway. heh. i should have turned around when i walked out the door and realized it was already over 90 degrees. anyway, my mom has a half dozen or so blueberry bushes. she started over ten years ago with 2 and gradually increased to about a half dozen now, producing at different times over the summer. the idea was to have blueberries coming all summer long, but then the bushes established themselves and one bush will provide enough for the summer and then some. we pick them every couple days and we'll get about a gallon of berries from each picking. so we have a ton of blueberries. we give a lot away and mom freezes the rest. we still have a couple bags left from last year. we've already given away a couple gallons this year and we've eaten about as many and so far there are three gallons in the freezer with only two bushes going at the moment and there are still plenty of green ones left on those. heh. so i was out there for about an hour and a half today, picking blueberries and sweating buckets and burning to a crisp. speaking of, blueberry crisp sounds really good right now.
in other news, i've officially lost 30 pounds since the big weight gain of 2006-2008. i'm actually about where i was before i started gaining, around 160, but i had a lot more muscle back then. i'm aiming for about 10-15 more. should have my abs back at that point. except i've really fallen off the exercise wagon over the last couple weeks. i've only gone 11 miles this week and lifted once or twice. i think it's treadmill time.
day twenty. a hobby of yours.
yeah, i know, i'm entirely disregarding the whole "day" thing. but i'm still getting through them and that's what matters, right? so. down to it. a hobby. not really sure what counts as a hobby. dictionary time. from m-w.com, a hobby is "a pursuit outside one's regular occupation engaged in especially for relaxation." well, i don't really have an occupation at the moment. there are several things that i do. like reading or writing or music, any of which would probably be considered hobbies to any contributing member of society. my life is kinda made up of hobbies. i love movies, i cross-stitch, i walk/jog, i exercise, i have a cat (can a cat be a hobby?), i give plasma (which i guess would be my occupation at the moment), i attempt to date, i cook, i try to organize my stuff... yeah, i'm feeling pretty useless at the moment. quite a bit, actually.