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I just finished listening to one of my favorite books ever.  “My Life in France” by Julia Child.  I bought the abridged version from Audible because I thought the narrator’s voice was charming, plus I read the whole book a few years ago and just wanted to relive it a bit.  I am showing the pre-”Julie and Julia” cover because I thought the movie was pretty awful.  Don’t get me wrong, Meryl Streep was absolutely brilliant!  She did such a fantastic job, I forgot I was watching an actor and not the real Julia Child.  I mean, she got Julia’s high, warble-ly, slightly ridiculous voice down pat.  Which made me all the more sad that the movie wasn’t a bio pic.  I know, I know, I am such a sucker.  But I love me a good bio pic.  I am so glad Joaquin Phoenix made “Walk the Line” before he went round the twist.

In other news…recent sweater progress has been fantastic.  I am finishing up the body on this sweater today.  I think my gauge is tighter than my swatch.  The sweater is only 14″ across right now.  But I haven’t cut the steek, blocked it or put in the button band yet, so I’m not too worried.  I’ll just plan on wearing it with some negative ease.  This will be the second or third “post fatness” sweater I have made.  I think I mentioned before that I joined Weight Watchers at the end of last November.  Since then all my knitting time has been devoted to making my “Goodbye to Fatness Trousseau.”  Some of the ladies at my LYS have balked and made it pretty clear that they think it’s crazy to knit sweaters 4 sizes smaller than I am right now.  But I think it’s the best thing I can do right now to keep myself motivated.  Apart from spending hundreds of dollars and hundreds of hours too, the visualization is really useful.  I know it’s a cliche from therapy, but imaging myself thin and all dressed up in my new clothes is fun and really keeps me going.  A month or so ago I said that I wanted to be 30 lbs down by my 30th on May 6th.  I’m not quite going to make it, but I’ll be close enough to keep myself encouraged.  I’ll definitely hit the 25 lb mark.  Which considering I’ve been on the program for 5 months, I call that a pretty good pace.