Girl vs. Wall: All this stress is good for something after all!

Tonight I sent seven problems eight times (total, not each), and two of them were V1s. I also started a V2, though I only got a couple of moves up. Still, this makes the fourth climbing night in a row that I have climbed a lot and well. I think that means it's a real improvement. Tomorrow I'm going kayaking, which should also be lots of fun. Then we will resume freaking out about this novel.

A girl and her kayak

At first I typed "Girl vs. Kayak", but my relationship with the kayak is nowhere as adversarial as my relationship with the wall.

Kayaking was awesome, as expected. We went the more scenic direction this time, and got to admire the cliffs over Town Lake and the impossibly expensive houses on them (and the private docks they let rot, the bastards--give me those houses and I will keep the docks pristine!), turtles on logs, ducks, herons, other birds, dogs on Red Bud Isle, and rowing teams of both genders. Rowing teams are a bloody menace, but very nice to look at. It was warmer than I feel November should be, and I forgot sunscreen, but all in all very lovely. And now my shoulders ache. I may never lose the fifteen pounds that cling to my midsection, but I will have valkyrie shoulders if I keep this up.

The fact that I left the dock and promptly ate a plate of migas bigger than my head might have something to do with those fifteen pounds...