various stuff in list form

1. I weighed in today at 175 pounds - and I've stayed within 6 pounds of that weight - my 2007 weight watchers goal wieght - for a year. I'm very proud of that! Except for my Fried Food Tour of Louisiana in February - I've been very true to my diet and my new skills in the kitchen.


2. I have started character sketches and blocking for the new novel. Based on a verse of Rumi prose - the book is going to start with a sexier but earthier tone than House of Wolves.


3. I'd still like to accomplish a polish-edit of House of Wolves to get rid of the glaring time line issue that somehow made it into the final manuscript - and fix the poor typesetting of the first printing


4. I have taken control of my retirement planning and my pocketbook. I'll soon be ready to tackle paying down some debt faster (e.g. owning my car sooner).


5. I'm working on approaching getting to know David differently than I approached other relationships in the last few years. Less "what is our future" together and what is "our now" together.


6. Continuing my Real Jock workouts - and working on being patient at the gym. I don't want to push too hard and end up hurting myself. I'm very pleased with how the muscle sorta creeps up on you. but I wish my legs caught up with my upper body.


7. I've been making some real synergistic friendships lately - and I'm very excited about that.


8. Trying to explain why all my leathers have yellow piping to David - was very interesting. and we haven't had a face-to-face follow up about it yet.


9. I am finally to that place where not having contact with Rick is okay. and isn't something I think about 24/7. We've traded three or four emails in the last 6 months. Basic stuff. But other than that - totally washin' that man right out of my hair... I have stopped referring to him as an ex - but rather a man I dated briefly when moving to San Francisco.
   
   Playing the 'thoreau mental path' game on that one - "As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives."
   
   - and I'll reap a huge benefit from that in the long run.


10. Am working with Tom - my buddy who is a playwright - on a multimedia one-act for the Queer Arts Festival in June.


11. The book project with the coffee shop - fell through. The coffee shop owner wanted to make a profit - and I wanted the money to go to charity. He was inflexible - I have other projects I can work on. Sad - but not a fight I want to get into.


12. Professionally - at the radio stations - I have never felt more in my stride. David Field - the CEO of Entercom - was here in SF today making presentations. and called me out by name at a lunch of industry luminaries and advertising clients - as the kind of digital manager radio needs. It was overwhelmingly huge to get called out like that.


13. I'm happy - and that makes all of these above bullet points... all the better.