I don't know why some days the reflection is worse than the scale. There was one year we went camping in the San Bernadino Mountains in California; my daughter was still preschool age. H took a lot of pictures, and at the time, I remember I thought I was so fat. H has a screensaver on his computer that flips through a file folder with what he deems are good photos, and I will see pictures of me on that trip. I weighed more, but I looked really good, nice muscle tone all over, I think both from weight training and carrying my daughter around a lot. I noticed my arms seemed to get weaker once I was not carrying her around so much. Well, now she's to the too tall, too heavy range from me to pick her up from the ground except a couple of seconds, let alone carry.

Now, I am very skinny but have a distance runner's physique. I honestly could probably run a half marathon 3 or 4 days a weeks now, the amount of running I do...sigh.

I hope the job comes through for H. It seems promising. They also asked he have his old university (the one where he earned the Ph.D., not the B.S.) send sealed direct copies straight from the university to this other university. My old jobs, it was good enough if I had the sealed, closed official copy with me, much less mailed to them. So we will see. We think the job will either be 1 year visiting professor (which won't pay much more considering gas, but will put him on the right track, then if they like him, associate or assistant professor on the tenure track (would involve a move but much better pay). We will see. He has got to get in while this provost who likes him is still in place and hasn't worked upward to another position. Wait & see has been the motto of H's career path. It is not easy.