In which SL gets the armband...

Dear reader, the ridiculous-meter on taking a pregnancy test while one is menstruating was not lost on me, but it's part of the study,* so there you go.

I also got a "life assessment" which is basically how were your moods lately, etc. I had to fill in a questionnaire concerning how much activity (as in physical, lifting, walking, home repairs, etc.) I'd done in the past week. Fortunately, since Katy and I did a LOT of walking on Saturday, I could answer that I'd walked for 2-4 hours last week.

The armband has a sensor that measures caloric output, my movements, etc. I wear it for the next 7 days except in the shower or swimming. Yes, to bed. For this, I will get paid $20 at the end of the week. Sally said, ooh, I want one. Do you want to be bipolar? No, I think we established that I'd like to be boring.

(*This is all part of an exercise study to see if folks that have bipolar feel better if they are exercising regularly. I know that to be true, so if you need me to be a part of the hard numbers and you'll pay me, I'm in!)

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I have quotes adorning my desk. This morning whilst getting up, I thought, I need to start writing again. REALLY writing, working on my novella. This would go along with the quote, "There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you." (Maya Angelou) My dear father has been trying to send me Valentine's flowers for almost a week (did I mention he broke his arm?) which goes along with the quote, "Send me flowers while I'm alive. They won't do me a damn bit of good after I'm dead." (Joan Crawford.) Taped next to it, a new addition, cut surely from an issue of REAL SIMPLE magazine, are the wise words of William Morris: "If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful."

To which I will point out I recently re-found the piece of Jerusalem stone my father sent me once that merely has two footprints and says "...it was then that I carried you."

Be healthy!