These boots were made for walking

[heavenly_pearl]

Remember a few months ago when I ordered a pair of black knee-high boots online, but they didn't fit, despite being the same size and style as the other (taupe) pair I own?

Well, after about two months of regular excercise and trying to watch what I ate, guess what? I managed to zip them all the way up last night!

*dances*

Granted, they're still a struggle to get on -- especially the left one -- and they're too tight to consider wearing more than ten minutes at a time, but it's progress! Good thing, too, because I was beginning to feel discouraged. I was even considering giving up if nothing changed by the end of this month, but now I'm pumped to keep going! Come this fall, I will be able to wear those boots comfortably. That's my goal. (And it wouldn't hurt if I went down a size or two in the process.)

Funny thing is, I actually skipped two days of exercise this week. I stupidly did those curtsey-squats KR warned people not to try in her journal and could barely walk for a couple of days afterward, much less even think of exercising. *laughs* But what if those were the key to my success...?

No, you couldn't pay me to try those again. Well, you could, but I wouldn't be very happy about it. I think next week I'll just try to increase my weekday workout time from 30 minutes to 45 minutes. That should help.

 

1: Name your ten favorite titles from stories you've written (or, if you're not a writer, just name your ten favorite titles).

1. Machiavelli's Folly
2. Hawk's Eye View
3. Queen of Hollywood
4. Why Kenji Hates Mamoru and All Teenage Boys
5. Against the Rules
6. Tick Tock
7. Taboo
8. Playing Doctor
9. Pillow Talk
10. Written in the Tea Leaves

2: If you happen to be working on some creative writing project, fanfiction or NaNoWriMo or what have you, post exactly one sentence/paragraph/whatever from each of your current work(s) in progress in your journal. It should probably be your favorite or most intriguing sentence so far, but what you choose is entirely your discretion. Mention the title (and genre) if you like, but don't mention anything else -- this is merely to whet the general appetite for your forthcoming work(s).

This is from my still-untitled Kaleido Star work-in-progress:

Yume thought she had finally come across a way to impress Mikhail: by mastering the triple axel. She could tell he hated having to lessen his technical skills to match hers, but if she could just learn to land the triple axel consistently, they would have the toughest side-by-side triple jumps ever done by a pair, even out-doing what Mikhail and his former partner did. The most difficult jumps they ever tried together in competition were side-by-side triple loops, the same as all the other top-ranked couples, although she knew Mikhail was capable of triple axels. She often saw him doing them in practice, beautiful jumps that made Yume wonder why he had ever decided to become a pairs skater when he obviously had the talent to become a world-class men’s champion. However, for her, the triple axel remained her nemesis.

Comments

[samuraiter.livejournal.com]

*hums that song*

[dark-branwen.livejournal.com]

Haha, I did warn you. ^.~ I think I took my rest day early after I did those for the first time.

[heavenly-pearl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I have no one to blame but myself. >.<

*laughs*

- Yumeko -