Stop, Drop and Blog

I’ve received a few e-mails and comments asking where my Goals Update for April went. Well, it didn’t go anywhere. I just never wrote it. April wasn’t the best month goal-wise, I’m ashamed to say. I’ve been busy with a lot of extra things and certain things fell by the wayside. And so, here’s my belated goal update for the month of April 2008.

1. Project365. I did take a picture every day, all month. The last week is filled with a bunch of boring, “Crud, I Need to Take a Picture Now” kind of shots. There were some great shots, sure, but it wasn’t my most inspired photographic month. I suppose all artists, no matter the genre, have such months. Or years. And so, here’s my monthly mosaic. Our pictures are (almost) all public on our flickr set.

2. Reading. Oh, books. Let me tell you, it wasn’t my best reading month ever. Why? Well, let’s take a look at the title of the one book I read all month: The No-Cry Sleep Solution by Elizabeth Pantley. That’s right. LittleBrother had a rough sleep month and I was desperately trying to figure out how to handle it in a gentle but results-driven method. Since I was sleep deprived, reading for fun wasn’t at the top of my list. And so, I’m greatly behind on my reading for the year now. I’m hoping to pick it up a little in the next few months. Sigh.

3. Weight loss. Ugh. Do we have to go there? I haven’t seen movement on the scale for a month and a half now. I am upset. I am discouraged. I am trying to remind myself that my main goal, of course, is to continue to nurse LittleBrother and that involves consuming calories but, ugh, I am pretty upset with myself right now. We have finally made the decision to join a gym. We are going with the YMCA for various reasons. Some of these include, morning daycare for the kiddos while I workout in any number of the free fitness classes (everything from yoga to hip-hop aerobics), a new set of equipment, great stuff in general and, if I’m feeling like pushing myself, it is in walking distance from our home. I’m hoping that by the end of June I’ll see some movement on the scale. Oh, please, please, please.

And so, April wasn’t so great. May isn’t shaping up to be all that awesome on the goal-front either. But I forge ahead.