In the beginning

Why is it the blank page--or in this case--the blank screen can make my mind just as blank? You start a blog because you think you have something to say... and then when you sit down to say it, you got nothin'.

So I'll just start...

Today's been a roller-coaster. I went to a health fair and got news that my body fat had gone up...but then I remembered what the percentage had actually been last year, and I'm about the same. Just a little lower, in fact.

(I was about to say something idiotic about maintaining my current weight is harder than working my way down to it, but I'm not sure that's true. I don't have the benefit of my crazymad competitiveness any more--it's not much of a contest, trying to stay exactly the same, especially when exactly the same is really where you want to be, not bigger or smaller.)

Then some shoes I'd been having stretched came back, and the stretching worked. What does this mean? It means I can wear them. Are they comfortable? Not quite yet--they need to stretch just a smidge more. But since I couldn't bear to have them on my feet before I had them stretched, this is a great improvement. (I swear they didn't squeeze that badly when I was tyring them on to buy them. I don't know what it is with me and shoes...or what it is with my feet.)

Finally, a very dear friend (who is one of the most amazing people I know, though I don't think she knows how special she is) got bad news today. I'm still processing it--I can't imagine what she's going through. I'm praying for her. Mainly I'm praying for grace, for strength and that whatever she has to go through in the next few weeks and months is as easy as it can be.