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No, I'm not particularly interested in when various measuring systems designed by accountants decide they're going to roll from one year to the next. This week felt like Spring, what with sun, and flowers, and so on, and I felt all bouncy and ready to do things and change things, so it must be the start of the new year.
I'm back on Weightwatchers, having done some measurement and discovered that while six months of very limited mobility and nt paying much attention to my food had caused me to put some weight on, it wasn't as bad as it could have been. Clean, fresh spreadsheet to record it all.
I've been starting and ending the day with those "abdominal crunch" things that are a bit like situps but don't hurt your back - I do them in bed, since getting up from lying on the floor is still difficult, and really, why not?
As of today, I'm leaving even the little folding stick at home. And today was first day back on the Wii Fit.
Yes, the weight is dropping off nicely.

Of course, tomorrow is chocolate & roses day.....

New exercise thing - tried out the "free jogging" on the Wii Fit. Lowest duration is 10min, so I nearly didn't bother, since obviously I won't be able to keep it up for that long. Oh yes, I did! Covered 2.4km, it tells me, though since that's jogging on the spot (lounge isn't that big), it isn't the same as 2.4 "real" km.

It also asked me to guess how much I weighed, in stone. Anyone following along will know that I quite deliberately don't know how much I weigh in stone, since I'm pretty sure the answer will depress me. So I guessed at what I thought was an optimistic figure, and was told I was wildly wrong. OK.... I'm feeling pretty cheerful, I can probably cope, go on, tell me? The answer was a stone lighter than I'd guessed. I may even start being able to think about it without wanting to hide under the bed soon. I still refuse to add four and see how much I weighed to start with, though.

In other news, we're clearing the lounge ready for the new three-piece suite, and the carpet that we might as well do at the same time, and the decorating that might as well happen while the place is empty. An awful lot of books that we have on e-copy, or are so out of date as to be useless, went with my dad to a charity shop last night (our little car wouldn't have coped).

Remember I entered a card-making/paper-craft competition a while back? I won! £25 bag of goodies is heading my way, and the magazine will have a picture of the pretty thing I made.

 Saturday was mainly catching up on sleep (really should remember this "bed before midnight" idea during the week), and then going out with Dave (mmm) looking at possible new 3-piece suites with armchairs the right size for me and with leg supports such as are good for lymphodaemic legs. Yes, I am trying to remember to take leg problems seriously. 

Then we had a meal out at Frankie and Bennys. We'd planned on Aroma, but it seems to have been demolished :( F&B new lighter menu is very nice indeed, but the atmosphere at 5pm on a Saturday requires ear-plugs :(

Today got off to a good start when I weighed myself and found I'd finally hit that 3-stone target I've been hovering just over for far too long.

I spent the day at the Norton dig again, this time on the Finds team. A lot of recording things, then swapped over to identifying things. OK, so how fast can I learn a totally new subject, in which I have no previous training or experience? Pretty fast, it seems. Yes, there were plenty of times when I was calling for expert advice, but so were others. I particularly liked the exchange that went
"I think it's real ceramic, not just CBM."  (new jargon for the day - Ceramic Building Material i.e. tile or brick) 
"But it's red. Did they have ceramic for eating in red?"
"Well, there was Samian ware, that was red, and shiny like this."
It was Samian.
Apparently I can prepare plastic bags with proper identification codes twice as fast as others, too.

I'll be back there in two weeks time, and that's the last day of the dig, and an open day.

Tonight, had a nice rabbit stew I'd made back in April and frozen, with added Real Organic Veg., and still have four points left even if I ignore the considerable number of exercise points, and the 45 weekly points I can still use before tomorrow morning. I can smell cheese on toast. I think I deserve a treat.