I think, *I think,* I might be back in the zone.

So yesterday was far from productive at work. However! I ran 38 minutes last night after a park board meeting that was successful. I ran outside, in the 98 degree heat, after the sun went down, while listening to Weezer Radio on Pandora. After my run, I felt awesome! Better than I have after a run in a while. Tuesday night I ran 45 minutes at the gym and Monday night I ran 30 minutes at the gym. I dropped the two pounds I gained on my trip already. So I am .8 of a pound away from my maximum weight allowance which is pretty good considering I have been so lazy about working out all summer. Once I am back under my maximum allowance I will be happier and then I can focus on getting back to my goal, which is 10.8 pounds less than I am now. It used to be 16.8 pounds less than I am now, but I got there last year for a few months and everyone kept asking me if I was ok and constantly telling me to eat. Looking back at pix, I think they may have been right. So the 10.8 pounds less was a very good weight to be. Super thin, but not scarily so. That's the goal. But first, to get under the maximum. I think I need two, maybe three more days to do it safely. I'm back, Baby!

This pic is me at the goal weight 16 months ago. I was lifting, too, so the arms were fairly shapely. Glad I have this pic for reference. :)
Also! Aaron's pumpkins are looking so great! Marnie got a new car yesterday and it's really nice. The Sceamers are working on their house again, re-doing something on the living room. I am anxious to start doing little clean up/fix up projects around our house. The Halloween party is always a goal to get those types of things done. We are 79 days away from that so I need to get busy!

I can't believe how much I suck.

I recently remembered the two other blogs I started before and never kept up with. The first one was in 2006, before the blog sites were very good. Since I am technoligically challenged anyway, that didn't work out too well.

The next time was the end of 2007. I logged on the site so infrequently and actually forgot about it for so long that, by the time I remembered I had it, I could not remember my user name or password or even which email I had it associated with. After messing around with it for days and even Googling things I remembered about it so I could find it (but never did,) I gave up and started this one. So far, not much better.

There are lots of reasons I would like to maintain it better outside of the obvious reasons. I really enjoy looking back and knowing what the weather was like for some reason. Also, later when people tell me that they did something substantial at a certain time in their lives, I am anxious to remember what I was doing then as well. Several other small reasons keep me attempting to stay active with this. My journal is so hit or miss. I just need one constant.

Last week, I visited Island Park, Idaho with my oldest brother, Rick's family. Rick and Jill; Richie, Amanda, Wyatt & Eric; Jason, Katie, John & Tyler (John Tyler-our 10th president-hee hee); and Matt & Aimee Bell. I love being around those people. Really love it. It was my first time to meet Katie and her boys and Aimee Bell. I think, for a first meeting, thrown together in the woods for days, we all did very well and had a delightful time together.

Two reasons brought us together at this place at this time. 1. Jill's parents passed away, both within the past two years and this was a memorial for them in which Jill and her husband and sons spread the ashes of her beloved parents on an island in the Snake River at the place where she and her parents had been camping for decades. Very beautiful! Matt brought an ipod player and played The Beatles "Here Comes the Sun" and it was just beautiful. 2. Richie is about to deploy for his third tour; this time to Afghanastan. He'll be gone almost a year, leaving behind his wife and two sons. It isn't something any of us are looking forward to. I am so grateful for the time I got to spend with those wonderful, warm, beautiful, loving people.

I could write for days about that trip but I am playing catch up with the rest of my life.

Ciao for now.