Gawd, just call me sneezy. I have been sneezing about 20 times a day for the past 10 months or so, and it’s driving me insane. I like to think it started back when I was temping at a warehouse last june. I had to do data entry, and it was so friggin dusty that I could believe that it gave me allergies or something. This was the same temp job I quit because it was so disgusting and therefore had to pay back the Department of Labor almost $500. Blech.

Also, if I may be even more self-centered, can I say that it is a little upsetting to me that I have lost approximately 15-17 lbs and no one has mentioned that I look any smaller. Now, I’m not complaining that people don’t compliment me constantly, I’m complaining that I obviously don’t look any different and clearly losing 15-17 lbs has made no difference in my body. So where was that weight? Has all of my muscle turned back to fat, therefore causing me to lose weight but stay the same size? (And I do know that my hips have barely shrunk, maybe an inch, if that.) Maddening, I tell you. My luck would be this – I’ll lose 35 more pounds (and get to my goal weight) and look the same. Sigh. What I need to find are pictures of myself back in Feburary, before we started WW. Yes.

Oh, and did I really forget to mention that I got a raise yesterday? Yes indeedy. Although it is against company policy to tell anyone how much I got, I think I’m safe in mentioning it here. Yes indeedy, I am now making a whopping 17 cents an hour more! Yippee! That works out to nearly seven dollars a week, before taxes. Now, don’t think I’m being sarcastic – well, okay, I am, but the company isn’t doing terrifically yet (it emerged from bankruptcy two years ago) so we were told to expect bigger raises later. But still, seventeen cents? Why bother?