I can't believe how laziness has set in.  It's rather like a pause, I keep telling myself, before the new year begins, with all its work and trying to get things done.  I do feel that there is a change coming; perhaps in our country, or the world, or myself.  Or the climate. 

I can't figure out, even with instructions, how this pedometer thingie works.  One of the problems is that everything is entered in cm.'s, or kg.'s, etc. You have to enter your weight, height, and length of stride, all in numbers I don't understand.  Perhaps counting steps is best.  Also, when driving, I can drive to the point that I walk to and get the distance in 1/10's of a mile.  Oh, well.

I spent all afternoon yesterday trying to figure out how to play a DVD movie on my computer.  All my research indicated I needed a decoder to do so, after downloading Windows Media Player 10, and I came within a click of paying $39.95 to get a decoder.  Then I said to myself, didn't I already get all that when I bought this Dell computer?  So I looked through all my disks that came with it and found one that looked promising, and it was the decoder!  This should have put me in paradise, right?  Except their software appears to be crap, because halfway through the movie and every 10 minutes thereafter, everything freezes up and starts and stutters along.  I couldn't even watch one movie.  I am pretty disgusted with so-called technology right now.

What else?  Oh yeah, I'm still fat.  I have lost weight in the past, and I was trying to remember just how I did it before.  I think I simply starved myself for about 2 weeks, and then, the weight started to come off in a reasonable manner, with regular dieting.  Apparently, there has to be some sort of jump-start-me fasting. 

It has taken me three days to itemize everything I got for Christmas, because I keep forgetting little things, like my SpongeBob SquarePants folder.  I shouldn't discount it because it probably only cost 10 cents.  Yesterday, I got busy and actually organized all my recipes, and I used the folder to put in all the leftover recipes that I couldn't deal with then.