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Feb. 13th, 2015 08:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lunabee341. We are 100% student loan free! We finally paid off Josh's final student loan this week! Yay! I am eternally grateful that I did not have any student loans and that Josh's were not extremely large (I don't remember the exact total, but 20,000 or less, probably less, all together). If I'd had loans as well, we'd still be looking at a decade or more of repayment.
2. On Monday, I upped my step goal to 11,000 a day and have met that goal every day since. In two weeks, I'll up it again to 12,000, and that's when things will get interesting. As long as I go to the gym every day, the 10,000-11,000 range is not hard to hit. I was frequently walking around 11,000 when my goal was just 10,000. But 12,000 plus is either going to require me to be at the gym for longer than an hour or for me to sneak in bits of exercise elsewhere. I may have to actually use the stairs instead of the elevator. :/ I almost always take the elevator because of my knees and because I'm really unsteady on stairs and genuinely fear falling (which I last did, *TWICE*, when I was pregnant with Fiona), but ever since someone years ago who went to the gym at the same time I did made a snarky comment about why I would take the elevator if I was trying to get in shape, I fear people are judging me for my elevator use. Anyway, we'll see how challenging 12,000 is when we get there. My ultimate goal is 15,000 a day, but I don't know how sustainable that will be over time.
3. I was wearing Chanel Coromandel earlier this week, and Josh had a perfume swoon. He kept trying to get up in my neck and sniff me like he was auditioning for a part in a werewolf soulbond AU. I suppose this makes up for his inexplicable and utter distaste for BPAL's Bewitched, which Emma and I both loved--glorious blackberries and sage. Really, really pretty.
4. I contacted a scholar in my field whose work I have admired for 15 years now for some help in acquiring a special edition of a journal and have heard nothing back. I'm not surprised, but I am a little disappointed. Dear Scholar, There's like less than 20 of us who have ever written about this author and only about five who are doing so regularly. I had kinda hoped we would have a professional relationship someday, so I really hope you're just on sabbatical. No Love, Lorraine
2. On Monday, I upped my step goal to 11,000 a day and have met that goal every day since. In two weeks, I'll up it again to 12,000, and that's when things will get interesting. As long as I go to the gym every day, the 10,000-11,000 range is not hard to hit. I was frequently walking around 11,000 when my goal was just 10,000. But 12,000 plus is either going to require me to be at the gym for longer than an hour or for me to sneak in bits of exercise elsewhere. I may have to actually use the stairs instead of the elevator. :/ I almost always take the elevator because of my knees and because I'm really unsteady on stairs and genuinely fear falling (which I last did, *TWICE*, when I was pregnant with Fiona), but ever since someone years ago who went to the gym at the same time I did made a snarky comment about why I would take the elevator if I was trying to get in shape, I fear people are judging me for my elevator use. Anyway, we'll see how challenging 12,000 is when we get there. My ultimate goal is 15,000 a day, but I don't know how sustainable that will be over time.
3. I was wearing Chanel Coromandel earlier this week, and Josh had a perfume swoon. He kept trying to get up in my neck and sniff me like he was auditioning for a part in a werewolf soulbond AU. I suppose this makes up for his inexplicable and utter distaste for BPAL's Bewitched, which Emma and I both loved--glorious blackberries and sage. Really, really pretty.
4. I contacted a scholar in my field whose work I have admired for 15 years now for some help in acquiring a special edition of a journal and have heard nothing back. I'm not surprised, but I am a little disappointed. Dear Scholar, There's like less than 20 of us who have ever written about this author and only about five who are doing so regularly. I had kinda hoped we would have a professional relationship someday, so I really hope you're just on sabbatical. No Love, Lorraine
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Date: 2015-02-13 03:20 pm (UTC)OH HOORAY HUZZAH! That must be a fantastic feeling!
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Date: 2015-02-14 01:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-02-13 03:45 pm (UTC)He kept trying to get up in my neck and sniff me like he was auditioning for a part in a werewolf soulbond AU.
*snerk* Best description ever.
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Date: 2015-02-14 01:06 am (UTC):)
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Date: 2015-02-13 08:13 pm (UTC)sniff me like he was auditioning for a part in a werewolf soulbond AU
Having read my fair share of werewolf soulbond AUs, that bit made me chuckle. *g*
I hope that person gets back to you.
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Date: 2015-02-14 01:08 am (UTC)I hope she gets back to me, too. Not just because I hope she can help me find a copy of this journal I want to read but because I have fangirled her for years, and I want her to LIIIIIIIIIKE MEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. LOL
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Date: 2015-02-13 09:38 pm (UTC)The knees, though... if your knees are telling you something, I'd encourage you to respect their messages. Go up the stairs, sure, but take the elevator down. The physics involved, the amount of force applied to the joint when going down stairs or down a hill is kind of staggering. Speaking as a 56-year-old who's living with the consequences every day.
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Date: 2015-02-14 01:10 am (UTC)And you are also very wise. You make a good point. I can find other ways to up my step count; it's not worth falling or screwing my knees up further. (Every time I've fallen? going down)