Guess I'm on a once a week posting schedule... Hey! I have hardly any news for y'all. I'm still waiting to find out if the kiddos' caseworker will consider a single mom for them. When the presumed caseworker returned from vacation and caught up on his email and voicemail, found out he's no longer the caseworker. My adoption specialist is now trying to contact the new caseworker, whose voicemail has been full and whose email she doesn't have. My a.s. is also in the midst of an office move and so didn't respond to my emails today. But as far as I know, my paperwork has been submitted to the courts and I should be certified to adopt within a month.
It's currently thundering here and my big, bad Kobi is laying as close to underneath me as he can get. He hates the booms and roars. Poor sweetums.
I jogged 8 miles Sunday morning as part of my marathon training. It was grueling, I was slowwwww and really stiff, and I'm sore today. It's the furthest I've ever run (or "walked with a bounce"). Felt good to do it, but I was prompted to buy new shoes afterwards. I've been leaning in that direction, but my feet and legs were SO tired...
This weekend I also did a clean-up at a really great riparian area northeast of town that is being restored after 100 years of dam operation that left the stream corridor nearly dry most of the year. Conservation groups got the dam "removed" and now the place is just thriving. But it's also being loved to death by thousands more recreationists. We picked up a ton of crap: litter, car parts, and quite literally CRAP! It was really hard work, but very productive. Now if we could just figure out how to get the idiots to cart their shit out of the forest... "LEAVE NO TRACE" Live by it (when it comes to public lands--not your life).
The diet is going well enough. I do feel hungry a lot of times, but it's more because I'm not eating as much as I should. I've lost 5-6 lbs. so far. Also, because I'm feeling more fit, I get really surprised when I take my shirt off and see my belly rolls... I "feel" like I should be thinner than that! I know it takes time, but I wish it would hurry the hell up. And I'm looking forward to training in new shoes in the morning. Hope I'm faster than I was this weekend!!!
5 comments:
Glad the weight loss and marathon training are going well. You are a strong person. I could never do the marathon stuff. That does suck to have to clean up after other people. We had this place in Spokane where I went hiking once and people had been using it for a dump. It was horrilbe how much garbage and crap was lying around. I can't believe that people think this is ok.
Tell those case workers and stuff to get with it!!! I know it will all happen in due time.. but lord the waiting for all of us!!!!
Congrats on the running.. that is so awesome! You do DESERVE a new pair of tennies!
Sounds like a productive weekend. Good for you on the marathon training.
Wow 6 already thats great!! Go you!
I hope the case worker stuff works out asap.
Congrats on the weight loss and the running. I hear you about not loosing it fast enough, I only want to see one roll not four.
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