Change in the wind

Lots to report. My weight has stabilized at 147, 2 pounds from my goal. Am I asking too much to lose those last two pounds? Weighing 145 instead of 147 wouldn't really change how I look or how I feel. But it's a number I want to get to. People have continued to say how great I look and I know that's what counts, not a number. But it would be nice...!

I ran the longest I've ever run on the treadmill tonight. 5 minutes run, 1 minute walk, lather, rinse, repeat. I did a little over two miles. I ran slow--5.0 miles/hr. I wanted to run faster but I wasn't able to keep the cycle up at a faster speed. Stephanie had told me to slow down. I don't think I'll do really well this first race. Well, it's the effort that counts, right?

I'm in a show--Guys and Dolls at Holt and Dimondale Community Players. I'm one of the mission "dolls". I've only been to two rehearsals so far and I have this week off except Friday. The music director used to be the choir director at my old church. She left under kind of a dark cloud, and I decided to move on partly because of that.

I've been spending time with Lance, a guy I met on plenty of fish. He lives in Grosse Pointe. He's a financial advisor and has two little girls. We've been having a good time. He wrote me that I seemed nervous around him, which was interesting considering I thought he felt nervous around me. He has a writing persona that doesn't match with his face-to-face persona. Maybe we all present a different face online. I guess the best thing to do is to keep seeing each other and working it out.

The vet checked Spot's urine and found a great deal of bacteria. So back on antibiotics she goes. We've completed 4 days of a 14-day cycle. We're retesting at 7-10 days. I hope she's okay. She is such an important part of my life.

I'm not working with the kids right now. We lost our grant, so the program can't go on. It was heartbreaking telling the kids. They said things like "Why don't we have a fundraiser?" and "I'm going down there and telling them...". I tried to explain that we needed a lot of money and that the decision was final. At least we got to finish our videos and we had a "film festival" on the last day. That was at Leslie. Gardner was weird because there were a few boys that just came in out of nowhere on the last day, and they made the session difficult. They didn't seem to understand that it was over. Jen took some pictures and we saw their video as well.

The February ice storm made it impossible for Stephanie and me to go to Adrian but we're hoping to go in March. March 20th is the spring solstice so that will be a very special day. My "Lent wreath" didn't go up this year; instead, I will put up the spring wreath March 20th.

Change in the wind...

Hanging up now...