I am back to Fighting Gravity

Like everyone else I know I am also looking to lose weight this year.

Last year I was all about getting repairs done that I required. This year I will be about getting fit.

Here are this weeks numbers:

• This weeks weight:  259.3   
• Total remaining to goal: 63.3 pounds
• Starting Max Weight: 296    
• Goal weight is: 196

I finished

I finished the first draft of my Scifi novel yesterday! I even managed to get some real cover art for the book.

I also started a blog about the experience.

Here is the plan going forward:

• Cut it down to reasonable size.
• Do a full edit/revision.
• Holly will edit for spelling/grammar.
• Find 10 alpha readers for feedback.
• Final revision/edit.
• Self publish via Kindle.

This has been a ready fun project. Outlines have already begun for Book 2 & 3!

Middle Man!

Love this series.

Binge watching it now!

Are Blogs Dead?

Weigh-in 255.3

I Weighed in the Day after Thanksgiving.

Here are this weeks numbers:

• This weeks weight:  255.3
• Gain is then: 4 pounds
• Total remaining to goal: 60.3 pounds
• Starting Weight: 296
• Goal weight is: 196

Weigh-in 251.3

Had a good week.

I bought a new Kilt! One more and it will be a collection!

Here are this weeks numbers:

• This weeks weight:  251.3
• Loss this last week: 2.1 pounds
• Total remaining to goal: 55.3 pounds
• Starting Weight: 296
• Goal weight is: 196

--I'm Rolling and Rocking!

Weigh In 253.4

RUSH at JLL

Had a good week.

I went to see RUSH this weekend at the Jiffy Lube Live pavilion. The still rock after all these years. The people that were eating delicious smelling pizza all around me was driving me mad!

Here are this weeks numbers:

• This weeks weight:  253.4
• Loss this last week: 1.5 pounds
• Total remaining to goal: 57.4 pounds
• Starting Weight: 296
• Goal weight is: 196

--I'm Rolling and Rocking!

Weigh In 254.9

Had a good week.

Last weekend I refit the master closet with Tony's help!

It kept me busy while Brenda was gone.

Here are this weeks numbers:

• This weeks weight:  254.9
• Loss this last week: 2.5 pounds
• Total remaining to goal: 58.9 pounds

--I'm Rolling!

Weigh-In 257.4

On the steady down slope again this week.

Last weekend I went scouting for dear season with my friend Chris. We both got eaten up by chiggers. Hundreds of bites

Oh The humanity!!

Here are this weeks numbers:

• This weeks weight:  257.4
• Loss this last week: 1.6 pounds
• Total remaining to goal: 61.4 pounds

--Gonna try to do better next week!

Weigh-In 259

The first week on the stick went ok. My back is feeling really good.

The other adventure I had this week was that Cady moved into her college dorm!

Here are this weeks numbers:

• This weeks weight:  259.0
• Loss this last week: 2.5 pounds
• Total remaining to goal: 63 pounds

--I am feeling good.

Weigh-In 261.5

No better time than the present. Time for a Weigh-in. I am a stress eater and there is been too many funerals in the last nine months. I have gained about 28 pounds from my low of like 233. 

I consolidated all the Fighting Gravity posts here so I will keep myself honest. Here is the New baseline!

Here are this weeks numbers:

• This weeks weight:  261.5
• Loss this last week: 0.0
• Goal Weight:  196
• Total remaining to goal: 65.5 pounds

--I have been stress eating A LOT. Back on the stick now.

More Books

Translated!!

I just finished:

Sens and Sensibility and Seamonsters

And

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies 

The Zombies were better!!

Book: Shadows in Flight

I finished a couple books last week but my favorite was Shadows in Flight by Orson Scott Card.

I was really looking forward to this story. In the Ender Saga I always wanted to know what happened to Bean and the kids.

This is the first part of that story. There will be another book that details their adventures.

Rating = 8 of 10

Loved it. Want a movie!

Book: Rise Again

I just finished Rise Again by Ben Tripp.

I really like Zombie Apocalypse fiction. This was a good action adventure survival story. Great survival concepts. Great characters.

Rating = 7 of 10

Forest Peak, California. Fourth of July.

Sheriff Danielle Adelman, a troubled war veteran, thinks she has all the problems she can handle after her kid sister runs away from home. But when disease-stricken refugees from Los Angeles overrun her small mountain community, Danny realizes her problems have only just begun—with the end of the world.

When the streets are choked with dead, the living grieve. When the dead begin to move, the living hope. And when the dead begin to feed, the living fight to survive. Because if you die…

You rise again.

-- If you like Zombie Stories you'll like it.

Book: Dragon Keeper

I just finished the book Dragon Keeper by Robin Hobb.

This is book one in the Rain Wilds trilogy.

I like the story, the characters, the world. I enjoyed the book except for one thing. The book was not a finite story with a real end. It is one of the ones that just ends on a chapter.

I don't have book two, dammit! Neither does my damn library!!

--Oh the humanity!!

Agni's Philosophy

--I love these cgi efforts.

Book: The Cut

I just finished reading The Cut by George Pelecanos.

I can't say it was that good. No mystery really. The main character was not that likable. It was predictable. The actual premise in the end was thin.

Rating = 5 of 10

--It was ok.

Books: The Sentry, and Grave Secret

I finished reading two great books this week. Both are part of series whose characters I just LOVE.

The Sentry has a central character named Joe Pike. He is awesome.

Grave Secret  has Harper Connolly as it's central character.

Great stuff.

Rating: 8 of 10

Book: Quicksilver

 I just finished reading Quicksilver by Amanda Quick (aka Jayne Krentz). This is a book in the Arcane Society Series.

When I picked it up I didn't realize it was the second book in a trilogy. It was OK though, it stood on it's own feet. I could tell there was back story here, I didn't lose anything because of it. I like that.

It is my guilty pleasure genre. Paranormal-mystery-action-romance-softcore-porn. I Blame Brenda. 

Rating: 6 of 10

The Looking Glass Trilogy

1. In Too Deep, 2010 (as Jayne Ann Krentz)
2. Quicksilver, 2011 (as Amanda Quick)
3. Canyons of Night, 2011 (introduces Rainshadow Island)

Zombie Apocalyse

Where are you going when the Zombies come? You saw the news about Florida right!!??

--Check out more remote monasteries!