An update

What I've been up to:

Cycling 55 miles on the Katy Trail over the holiday weekend. More on that later, but here is a photo of me with an apt sign above my helmeted head:

If I can't be a belle femme, then I'll be a bonne femme. And this bonne femme is now ten pounds heavier. Ten pounds in one month. Three pounds gained in the last week. For some reason my body is in pregnancy-weight-gaining mode. But I'm not pregnant. Maybe it is sympathetic weight gain; maybe it is thyroid related. My hairdresser thinks that I'm gaining weight because I'm really happy. As long as it stops soon, I'm fine with it. Actually, I'm embracing it.

Somebody is at Geek Camp this week; others are volunteering at a church; I'm spending a lot of time carrying whiney preschoolers around. They are cute and sweet though, so I'm not complaining too much. Everyone gets whiney every now and then, especially ladies who can't find any clothes that fit.