i gained seven pounds in two weeks

Pretty amazing, huh?

While the typical bride may lose weight for her wedding, I, who am secretly really freaked over everyone staring at me and has secret fantasies of our dog as our only guest, have been GAINING. Yep, eating, eating, eating. Overall, I'll do well, but I've had these isolated periods of time in which I plummet off of the bandwagon, flip the bandwagon the bird, order a pizza, eat a box of Zebra cakes and feel like such a loser that I do it again the next day to feel better.... I didn't even realize how generally anxious I had become until I found myself completly useless one day after a weekend of long conversations regarding weddings and parental figures and weddings and weddings and weddings. I found myself completely unable to focus on my school work...I would stare and stare and stare, but to no avail. blah. This won't do. I went to the university doctor, and he said that some brides need zanex, and don't feel bad. (mispelled b/c I don't want those kinds of hits).

One of my New Year's resolutions was to become more politically engaged and active, and I'm happy to say that I'm doing awesome here! I've gotten involved in the local campaign against the proposed amendment regarding gay marriage that they've already passed in several other states...(these are scarey times, when we are writing discrimination into our state constitutions). I've also joined Amnesty International, and have been doing some serious letter writing...I'm trying to be a better consumer activist by staying away from Proctor and Gamble, the animal testing guru's of the world, but I've been sort of lazy there. Yeah. I'm working on a goal!

My dog has taken up this habit of just staring at me while I'm on the computer and making this low growling sound. He wags his tail while he's doing it, so it's totally weird. He's a good guy, but a little high maintenance. On a celebratory note, he learned to go down the slide at the park! Really!