Retrospective

Today's Word of the Day is "retrospective." I have been feeling retrospective, as I catch up with months of unread blog posts, old magazines, and movies I never saw (but my name finally came up in the hold queue at the library). It's an odd feeling, being so busy. Like living one's life, only three months late. I check out books from the library, but never get around to starting them until I'm on my third renewal. Find myself downloading pictures from the digital camera that are from the peak of midsummer. This morning, I hauled out from the spare bedroom the crate of winter clothes that I never got around to putting in the basement last spring, because now it's time to wear them again.

Sigh. I'm going to bed now, so I won't stay up too late (another recent habit -- as if I could fit the day I didn't have time to have into the hours after I ought to have gone to bed).

Huzzah!

I did a row today!

Just one, but one is infinitely better than none.

It was also a bad knee day. I'm not sure of the cause; it could have been any one of three things (or maybe all of them):

• the temperature dropped 40 degrees in the last 3 days
• The Zumba classes I started taking this week (so much fun! I hope I can do it without having ongoing knee problems)
• wearing 3 1/2 inch heels and walking around in them all day

One of these factors would probably not have been a problem, but all together, they made for an owie day.

In good news, I have lost 17 pounds since August.

Still knitting

Little by little. My new goal is to knit at least one row every day. I have not managed that at all this week.