Catching up

Here it is Sunday again. February 7. A month of the legislative session is gone. Sure hope it will end on time on April 3, but I have my doubts. Governor Barbour, the House, and the Senate all seem to have different ideas on how to make the budget work. If things work as usual, the Senate will do whatever the governor says and the House will hold out for too long before finally caving in and giving the gov whatever it was he proposed in the first place. I only hope the gov is right. I have my doubts. He is the strongest gov I've ever seen. Two-party politics is so new to the state, but not to him. Not after all that time in Washington working for the Republican National Caucus.

It's odd, but this is the type of information I'd love to have about the time periods I'm writing about. What were the topics in the news? What was the political landscape? What did the different classes think about the economy, progress, or a certain political party. I was hoping the tea party movement here would show me how a new party is formed, but it seems they cannot agree on anything except that we need a change, and less governmental oversight. Sigh. Isn't that what most of us think?

On the diet front, I had lost 12 pounds by last Monday, but I am a little worried about this week. I was pretty good during the week, but ate over my calorie allowance Friday and yesterday. I will get out the lemonade cleanse today and put it to work, but I may not show a weight loss tomorrow. At least I did finally get to the pool. I managed 16 laps before finally stopping. I slept well after all the exertion, except for the hot flashes. I am so tired of waking up with those. I wonder if they will ever subside.

As I was walking into the Y yesterday, my heart did its hard-beating thing. I am a bit worried about it and plan to get a test after session is over. I hope I'm not ignoring a life-threatening condition. At least it did not act up while I was swimming. It doesn't seem to be a stress-related condition, but I sure don't want to have a heart attack.

I need to get more written. I have finished the first quarter of the novella, but have not yet written this weekend. Which puts pressure on today. I really need to be writing on it instead of in this, but this also needed to be caught up. I hope to get to the halfway mark by next weekend, but it will be hard to write during the week as work will be long and hard until Thursday night.

That's all for now. On to the cleanse and writing.