St. Patrick's Day.

Bleh. I think Cam says it about as well as I could have, even if there are some artifacts in the image.

(Actually, I'm as much Irish as I am Scottish. I just don't like St. Patrick's Day.)

Doctor called last night; thyroid is normal, bad cholesterol is about five points too high, and good cholesterol is about three points too low. So I have some work to do, it seems.

On the plus side, it was easier to get up this morning than it has been in a while, despite my not being able to get to sleep until an hour after I went to bed.

I think...

...it's time to move to Canada. Anybody got a spare room?

(from nagaina_ryuuoh.)

Hee hee...

(from jwz.)

Feel the burn

So I bought a two-year membership to Merritt Athletic Center Club today. I find that I have a hard time exercising when I'm at home - there's so much other stuff to do around the house that I tend to do that rather than exercise - but when I go somewhere for the specific purpose of doing something, I tend to do it, so I'm planning on making Merritt a regular stop on my way home from work. At least that way I know I'll do the workout.

Also, I've been ramping down (read: cutting off) my caffeine consumption again, and it actually seems to be working this time. After I run out of my current stock of Caffeine-Free Diet Pepsi (end of the week at work, and yesterday, really, at home) I'm going to stop drinking anything but water and see how that works out.

I suspect that what I posted about my health earlier (today? last night?) may have been the wrong way to put it; rather than say that I'm a few points out of whack, I should say that for all that I'm overweight (and boy, am I overweight; see above), I'm really in remarkably good health - to the point where my doctor literally attributed everything to my weight. Which I think is pretty cool.

So. Exercise. Water. Diet. Discipline. I ought to be able to beat this thing.

EDIT: Also got my DNA Lounge swag today: a T-shirt (green on black) and a logo button which has been placed on my iBook satchel. No, I've never been there, but it sounds reasonably cool, and I plan to go the next time I'm in San Francisco.

The T-shirt is a little small, but it's something to shrink into, I figure. Fitting into my DNA Lounge T-shirt is now one of my weight-loss goals.