Hey! April Hasn't Been A Total Wash!

It’s already April 26th! Where has the month gone? Well, the ongoing saga of our broken laptop computer continues. It came back earlier in the week only to freak out again and so back to the shop it went. Supposedly, it’s coming home on Saturday for good. I’ll believe it when it happens. So where do I begin to catch you up on how April has gone? Well, I’ve been frantically working on a paper over the past month and that’s been chewing up most of my free time. This is the first draft of what will eventually be my thesis so I’ve put every spare moment into it. Luckily all the previous work that I had been doing on it was recovered off the laptop so thankfully I was able to finish it by this week’s deadline. I couldn’t justify posting on this blog or surfing other blogs when I had a quiet moment because I knew that I had to dedicate that time to my paper. But I finished it today and so now I’m ready to get back into Fatblogland. I have missed you all! As far as exercise goes, I’ve been actually doing pretty well. I exercise in the morning a few days a week before work. I can’t believe that I’ve actually stuck to that given how I feel about early rising. Some days I’ve just been too tired and I’ll sleep in but I always set my alarm early and make the best effort I have to get up and get at it. I’ve also started jogging at a track at a park near my house on the weekends. I still want to participate in my city’s marathon in December so that’s been helping in just giving me a way to judge how many miles I can actually run instead of guesstimating like I’ve always done in the past. So big gold star for me there! As far as the eating goes, it’s going alright too. My pattern seems to be that I am fine on “normal” weeks but get screwed up every time we have a little blip in the schedule. Like I was doing well and then we went on vacation to San Diego and I had to spend a few weeks taking off those extra pounds. Then I started losing and along came Easter and another week or so of taking of that weight. And now Monday is my wedding anniversary (Yay! Two years! I can’t believe how fast it goes by!) and there will definitely be some eating complete with dessert at our favorite restaurant. Then the second week of May we’re going to spend a week at a cabin in Utah. I always have the best of intentions but I have yet to make it through a vacation without losing my mind and eating everything in sight. It’s just hard to keep losing and gaining the same three to five pounds over and over again. I just feel like all this hard work of exercising and really making sure I eat right is just damage control between holidays and vacations. Oh well, it is what it is and I just have to keep at it. Either way, it’s good to be back. I can’t wait to see what you all have been doing. Like I said before, I have really missed you guys!