I'm a little giddy because I am having dinner tonight with one of my favorite people (an ex-colleague) and she just wrote that she "can't have sushi right now. :)"

See, I just watched my pregnant friend gorge on sushi a few days ago, so that wouldn't ping me.

See, I just watched my pregnant friend gorge on sushi a few days ago, so that wouldn't ping me.

I don't know what the undercooked/raw seafood link to pregnancy is, but with a couple of miscarriages, she might be being extra careful.

I swam!

I really don't have a good idea of what I look like now. I'm mostly going by how I feel, which is much stronger. And I can see my collarbones. And actually feel veins under my skin, which is just weird (last time I was this weight, I still had teenage babyfat padding, so this is definitely new.)

You don't eat the raw stuff for mercury and other possible crap. But other types of sushi are just fine.

I bought fancy salt at TJs today -- Himalayan salt crystals that came in a grinder jar. And they're PINK!!!

I have those too! So pretty. But I still don't know how you find sea salt in the Himalayas.

Heh. That was my reaction, too! But the label very carefully does not say "sea."

sarameg, I am sure you're looking awesome and toned from all of that swimming. I envy you with the pool so accessible.

Mine does. Though it also says it's "primordial" so maybe things were a lot different then. (I picked it up at TJ Maxx as a stocking stuffer.)

There are salt flats that aren't from current seas- salt mines and flats. My parents trekked through a bunch of salt harvesting...things in Peru going to Machu Picchu. Google tells me Himalayan salt is from Pakistan.

it also says it's "primordial"

You know, that *might* be past its expiration date....

javachick, I hope so! I can't really tell (by sight.)