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Down another pants size. Not that the new pants fit quite the way I'd like them too (they still bind a bit at the thigh -- though not really badly -- and sit a bit oddly over my hips). But then, I am getting wushu butt and wushu thighs as well. A lot of the time I really don't feel like I look that different (except for posture, and maybe improved muscle definition).

But last summer's favorite tank top hangs on me like a tent, and the knit pants that were rather obscene just three months ago fit gracefully. And I don't see a solution to my bra problems in sight, though it's getting to be time to see if the next chest size down fits better. I have six tank tops that fit (woo-hoo Costco!) but three are black and one is navy, and I wear them every day if I can. I think I need to find some more in lighter colors for the summer -- and they have to be long enough that they'll stay tucked in if I tuck them in, and stretchy and ribbed so they neither pull at my chest or bag too much at my waist. And finding sturdy, practical pants is still a complete pain.

Meanwhile, Craig is trying to convince me that I have anxiety problems because I tend to make occaisional gasping noises and warding off gestures when a passenger with him at the wheel. (I suspect this would be much less of an issue if he kept at least one hand on the wheel and spared more than an occaisional glace at the road.)

I need to go practice at the park, spend time in the garden, and probably make the morels stuffed with crab and goat cheese we've been talking about... Haven't decided on what to do for a sauce, though. Oh, and write.

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Just planted thirteen tomato plants. Which is to say four Legends, four Early Cherries, two Principe Borghese, and one each of Black Plum, Wild Cherry, and Grape. And three tomatillos, between the scarlet runner beans, and more scarlet runner beans where the slugs ate the heads off a couple of them. Probably the happiest starts of my own I've yet to plant.

poetry_lady I have your tomato plants, BTW -- they're pretty much ready to go in now, but you could probably wait a little bit more without worry, too. I also have two unclaimed "Legends" (legend is a very late blight resistant early slicing tomato). For that matter, I could probably do with a pepper or eggplant or two less is anyone is interested.

Now I need to harden off the eggplants, peppers, and squash, and get them planted. And do more bed clearing in the back veggie garden, and plant the new greens bed, and edge and weed the herb garden... (oh, and start the fillet beans) and then weed everything else and prune the rhodies and start more root vegetables and by then it should be time for starts for the winter garden...

[Oh, and cucumbers. I also planted a bunch of cucumber plants. Haven't had much luck with them in the past, but hopefully these ones will break the pattern...]