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Sat, Jun 30, 2007

Dinah Kitty

Posted at 9:44 pm MDT to Miscellaneous

John Scalzi says cat pictures are mandatory in blogs,so I'm putting a picture of Dinah after the cut.

Last week, when I was out of town, my cat sitter came to refill the feeder Wednesday eveing instead of Wednesday morning, and Dinah met her in the kitchen and gave her a severe talking to. Dinah has a voice that is very penetrating because she has a lot of Siamese in her ancestry, but she usually hides when people come into the house.

Last night she caught two mice (or one mouse twice) and brought them to show me with her special 'I am a mighty hunter' meow.

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Summer Clothes (written 6/14/2007 and misposted)

Posted at 9:43 pm MDT to Travel

I'm traveling to Silicon Valley next week, and I may need to visit the mall on Saturday and invest in some more seasonal Left Coast office clothes. Weather.com is predicting highs in the 80s Fahrenheit all week.

I've gotten spoiled, working at home where I don't need to dress up. The clothes I wore in Boston were all right in California during the cooler weather (maybe a touch more formal than they needed to be)

My usual office wear is dress slacks and a colored Oxford cloth shirt with open collar over a t-shirt in a coordinating color. I don't usually wear short sleeves in office buildings because I freeze if I do. But I should probably look for some summer weight T-shirts in my current size. And weather in the 80s calls for khakis, not wool blend slacks.

I hate buying clothes. I have a petite body with tall arms and legs, so nothing ever fits. The weight I've put on since 2001 (when I was reasonably fit and regularly walking, lifting weights and doing yoga) doesn't help. Nor does the fact that my extra weight seems to be organized in ways the clothing designers and manufacturers don't expect or cater for. It would be nice to find some clothes that are made for adults, not adolescents.

At least, since I got the doctor to raise my thyroid medicine dosage last summer, I've stopped gaining weight. But I'm well over the weight range at which I exercise. (I've never heard of people having exercise setpoint weights, but I seem to: below a certain weight I feel like exercising, above it, I don't.) I think part of me doesn't believe that exercise will do any good: I kept exercising every weekday through the first 20 or 25 pounds of the weight gain, and it never seemed to make a difference and the exercising just got more and more awkward and uncomfortable until it sort of gradually faded out of my routine.

When I was young, I was always underweight, so being overweight seems weird to me, even though I've probably been overweight more than half my life at this point, and I tend not to see myself as fat. I suppose it is the same kind of body-image delusion that anorexics get caught in, but in the opposite direction.

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