Heather just sent me a link to a very amusing countdown ticker site. I wish I’d had this all along. Anyway, you’ll find my ticker at the bottom of the page.

You lay down to read around noon, and wake up at 4 p.m. Refreshing.

You start to let go of the little things without shame. Shaving your legs falls lower on your priority list, somewhere after training for a marathon.

So, Maggie, what have you been doing? Well, friends, I have been asleep. In addition, I have been preparing snacks. And then there’s all the eating and resting I’ve been up to.

Also, I’ve been sharing embarrassing photos of myself in high school on heavily trafficked Web sites. Head over to check out my high-waist Daisy Dukes and my worried-looking glamour shot.

However, I must say, after spending months waddling around with a carton of ice cream in my hand, it’s hard to feel embarrassed about any photo in which I weighed roughly 63 pounds. Not impossible, but hard.