Hey strangers.

Yeah, so it has been a LONG time since I posted. Sorry, been incredibly busy.

To catch you up, I am down to 233 pounds (3 pounds away from my goal for the year). I am about halfway into my couch to 5K running plan and things are going well. Did have a setback a few weeks ago when I developed a mild case of shin splints but I backed up the training to a previous week and I am once again progressing along.

Work is crazy, been working very long weeks, even after our pay and supposedly our hours were cut by 20%. I did learn yesterday that I have been accumulating comp time so I will have several days I can take off here whenever I slow down...

Interesting times...

I had a pretty good weekend... weighed in Saturday morning and had lost 7 pounds last week to get to 234 pounds. I've been building up running through this "Couch to 5K Running Plan" (found here http://www.coolrunning.com/engine/2/2_3/181.shtml ) and I suppose that, combined with doing a ton of running at rugby practice (which I started back into last week) on Tuesday, led to the huge drop in weight. Whatever the reason, I am happy and now only 4 pounds away from the goal I set for this year. The actual original goal was to get to 250 pounds but after getting there fairly fast I re-set the goal by another 20 pounds. I am thinking I will continue to exercise at this level and maybe back off a little on the strictness of my diet (though that scares me as I lack self control if I do not go full out, have trouble finding a happy medium, but we'll see and I know how to get the weight off quickly if need be).

Sunday was a good day with teaching Sunday school and then a very relaxing afternoon spent alone with a book and a couch (maybe a little nap, too) and an evening of pops in the park with the lifegroup. Not a huge fan of orchestra music but it was fun to hang with the lifegroup.

Today is okay, I'm taking the day off work since I worked 6 days last week while we are still on the 4 day work week and, unlike other weeks, I'm not working from home this day, just relaxing. It feels good, though I am hoping we get back to full time and pay soon, there's a certain missionary couple I want to support.

And the best news so far this week... I am listening to the A/C repair guys replacing my A/C right now. I'm looking forward to some climate control in my place.