Productive Day!

I was sulking about what an unproductive evening I’ve had when I realized I had a really productive day. I got caught up with all my orders and destash, and dyed a shitload of fiber, inluding all these stupid random bits of unlabeled stuff that I can use in batts. I even got culled about 50 emails from my inbox. So there! Then I ate a too-big dinner and hit a food coma-induced roadblock. For the last two hours, I’ve been dully surfing the internet. And now I’ve got to force myself to knit for at least an hour so I don’t have to spend my entire day knitting tomorrow. After all, Kristi’s coming to town, and I’ve got a shitload of other stuff to TCB.

So tomorrow, it’s knitting, stacking hay, setting one last post in concrete, emailing the next person(s) on the Yarn School waiting list, calling Autumn to see if she’ll model Caranby for me, making my mom do it otherwise, finishing the fair book and finding out if I’m really truly finished and, if so, sending it to the printer, paying any outstanding bills, and accepting that I won’t be able to squeeze in anything else from my list and that my August To-Do List was a tremendous failure… and then… THREE FUN-FILLED DAYS! I’m so excited about my little break, I could almost scream.

I was complaining to Suzanne about how I can’t do Weight Watchers without a convenient meeting (I either have to drive 40 minutes each way, or drive 20 minutes each way at 7.30 on a Saturday morning, when any civilized person with the day off should be fast asleep). When I lived in Austin with a meeting 5 minutes away, I was totally on goal. Here, I’m 25 pounds over. And that’s being generous. I was trying to explain how it wasn’t the meeting, it was the deadline and the accountability. She said, “I understand. You want to be graded.” Which is it, exactly. Then she said, why don’t you post something online? Because I don’t want to sit on my fat ass advertising my lack of self-control.

But it turns out, maybe I do, just for a minute. Just in case my imaginary ideal surrogate Weight Watchers meeting thing actually exists and someone can tell me where it is. So here’s what I want. I’m looking for something that’s essentially just like a Weight Watchers meeting, but online. I want to log it at the same time every week, in some situation with other human people doing the same thing. I want to weigh in, get some kind of salute if I’ve done well, and then either stay for 20 minutes (or some other fixed amount of time–no open-ended chatting) with a designated person keeping it on topic–no freeform discussions–and listen to everyone cheer and bitch–or not, if I don’t feel like sticking around. Just like in a regular meeting. Is there something like this online? Anyone?