Life + Weight Loss + Media Report = House Hunting

Hello everyone.  Here we are once again updating the old blog.  I realized that I have a few things to report on so I will start there:

1.  My weight loss extravaganza was going great.  I lost 9 pounds in thirty days and was feeling great.  Then, I got sick, had two sisters get married, started looking for a house, and the baby got sick...kind of all at the same time.  So pretty much the extravaganza has become more of a play date.  The frustration, I assure you, is maddening.  Losing weight or staying in shape seems easy for some people.  I think my problem is that I'm a pretty serious food addict.  I love food.  We're good friends.  I tell it my problems and it comforts me with its caloric goodness.  We party together, we attend movies together, it helps me watch the baby, it reads books with me.  But the more I think about it the more I realize that I'm in an abusive relationship.  Exercising is a whole 'nother story!!  I loathe exercise as much as I love food.  The irony is that if I were to simply swap the emotions I wouldn't be having so many problems.  Well...technically loathing food could also be harmful, but you get the idea.  I'm not giving up though (here is the positive turn you've been waiting for in this Debbie Downer paragraph).  Tomorrow begins another week of workouts and another trip to the grocery store.  I am going to clean out the fridge tomorrow, clean the house, do my exercises and stock up on the healthy stuff.  A purging and cleansing.  The extravaganza REBORN!!!  

2.  Our "Media Free Week" was amazing.  We weren't super strict about it, but we were pretty darn good.  All the results you expect were there: more time to actually be together, less time wasted and a quieter atmosphere all included.  However, there was one thing I wasn't expecting.  I actually felt physically energized, and mentally more organized.  It was so odd.  Like somehow too much computer and TV time was sucking my brain cells, and inner radiance!!  Aside from a government conspiracy, my next theory is that sometimes we become so immersed in all the technological things available to us that we lose touch with ourselves...think Pixar's Wall*E.  We become tired, moody, forgetful, and sloppy.  But I found the opposites true last week.  When I am disciplined with the amount of media I let absorb my time I feel energized, calm and collected, alert and organized.  I may institute a week like this quarterly in our home :)

Austin and I are taking the plunge into home ownership this year.  We have been house hunting lately, and while others describe the process as stressful or overwhelming I would describe it as a trip to the carnival where the show elephant sits on your head...and that's all I have to say about that for now  :)

**Stayed tuned for upcoming blog events:  Austin's trip to Comic Con in San Diego (the largest comic convention in the world), as well as more updates concerning our "trip to the carnival."