It's been a while since I've posted. When I'm not being fitness oriented apparently I dare not show my virtual face here. Things have really been stressful and busy over the last month. We've been eating out a lot and I've not been exercising as regularly. I thought if I came clean I might be able to get back on track. So here it goes.

After three years here in the middle of nowhere I have finally established a friendship with someone. But she has a 4 month old baby which is kind of hard on me because we've been trying so long to have a child of our own. The good news is that I am just awesome with babies. Sometimes that just makes it worse. I think that my downward spiral started in March when I began to realize that we may have to spend a lot of money to achieve parenthood. Having a nice dinner out makes me feel special (since we hardly ever did it). So I've filled my emptiness with fats and sweets.

Things got a little better in April when my husband had a nibble from a company that offers adoption assistance. He flew down for an interview at the end of April but we've not heard anything since. I don't know what that means. In light of the way that my job is going leaving town felt like a really good idea. Considering the expense of traveling to and from my job and ridiculous income and property tax rates here, I could be a woman of leisure in TX without taking much more than a $10k income cut.

We've been working on the house pretty hard lately since I'm off for the summer. We've taken down the popcorn on the first floor ceilings. It's hard and messy work. That got me to thinking about how I was able to lose so much weight last summer. I was working so hard on the house last July and August that I didn't have the time or energy to eat so much. Saturday night I made a long list of things to accomplish on the house. I've probably got two weeks of solid work which could occupy me so that I can't eat crap.

I had planned to start my list today after the new fridge was delivered. But when the fridge got here it was just a smidgen too wide. That just ruined my day. I just kept on truckin' trying to do stuff on my list and I was eating well but I was so stressed by the day that I had a headache by the time my husband got home. So my day ended with a meal from MacDonald's.

Tomorrow is another day. I'll spend the day putting the house back together. My neighbor is coming over to look at the fridge situation to give us some advice. I'm going to have a successful day tomorrow.