First, the good. In March I was tipping the scales at an unhappy 185. After starting a sensible diet-and-workout regimen, I am now at:
164.4 and moving downward! Yes, clothes are fitting again! My goal is to hit 160...then hover between 160 and 165. Since it's a (hopefully) sensible regimen...I should be able to keep it down there.
The not-go-great news.
Mathew has returned from Tennessee, having bombed-out down there. But in the moving-back-home bargaining process, he assured us that he's learned those difficult life lessons and has reformed.
Ummm...yeah....not so much, it seems.
He's been here for less than 24 hours and...
- Started texting his friends when Russ picked him up at the bus stop. Was it to let all his friends know he was back in town? Possibly. But, more likely, setting up....
- His run to Otakon. I'm not a fan of Otakon...not at all. But I get that folks like it and want to go. Fair enough. But...he's back for less than 3 hours...and has run off to the damned place.
- He's run off to the silliness, but---
....he's not even managed to put his clothes and other junk away.
- He doesn't get back in time for dinner.
- He doesn't get back before we all go to bed and lock the doors.
- He does get back and--finding himself locked out--calls the house phone to wake us up and let him in.
- The next morning, he wakes up and is off to Otakon again!
- Oh, but he gets there and realizes he's left his phone and Otakon badge at the house, so calls and asks us to find it and then drive it to him at the subway station!
- Then he goes to the wrong subway station and I sit for 45 minutes at the right one, wondering where he is.
- I finally find out he's at the other one, so drive over there to deliver his stuff.
- He opens the car door, plops in the passenger seat, and says "Wait." (Not, "Can you wait a moment, please?" Just the one-word command.)
- He calls his buddies to find out what their plans are. Apparently my plans are nothing more important than to cater to his whims.
- He tells his friends that if they're not doing anything, he'll "unfortunately" just go back home. Unfortunately?
