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I’m just about finished reading Julie & Julia, which is a book that I am very much enjoying. For those of you who live under a rock and haven’t seen the commercials, the book—now a movie—is about Julie Powell, a blogger who challenged herself to cook every recipe from Julia Child’s Mastering The Art of French Cooking in a year. I really dig Julie’s personality—I am constantly reading passages that make me nod emphatically or laugh out loud. I like how she swears a lot and likens cooking to bizarre sex practices, and today I read the chapter where she throws around the phrase “cheese-eating surrender monkey.” Love it.

So… there’s an example of someone who embarked upon a wildly successful food/cooking/blogging adventure. I had the same pioneering spirit when I joined the CSA—but I’m lacking a little of the discipline. Taking pictures of the food when it arrives, and making sure I cook every last morsel of it before it goes bad, hasn’t been too tough. But the blogging part is coming a little slower. I think I’m just out of practice! That year-or-so that I neglected this blog took its toll. So, hopefully you’ll forgive me if I don’t post a new CSA picture every Wednesday and a weight-loss progress update every Thursday… but you can rest assured that, sooner or later, I will post them!

On the subject of weight loss, I’m happy to report (5 days late) that I had two good weeks, back to back! I’ve been ever-so-frustrated that the 30+ miles I swam in June and July only yielded about a 6-pound weight loss (and that’s including the 3.1 pounds I lost last week)! But I’ve tried not to let it keep me down, and I’ve remained a committed gym-goer nonetheless. I don’t want to jinx it, but maybe my body has decided to work with me on this whole swimming thing, finally?