singer1961’s BodyBlog

My last post mentioned that we put our house on the market.  That was in the end of October.  We got a cash offer in three weeks, dickered for another week and a half, then only had a month to move our family, the farm, my father-in-law, and sell and remove his manufactured home from the farm!  We closed on December 17th.  Oh my, that was quick!  I thought we’d have 6 months before our place would sell.  I put everything on hold - including eating right and exercise.  Then we moved during a rare period of snow for this part of Oregon.  We never did get the moving van up the hill to the new house.  We took trips with a couple of 4×4s.  

But we’re in the new house now.  It’s a great place!  Big, newer (not a fixer-upper like the farm house was), cool deck, really close to my husband’s job, about the same commute for me, has a nice barn (that doesn’t need a new roof like the old one), fewer acres (we don’t want to do as much farming as we were doing before), a great view, quieter neighborhood.  And our mortgage is only a little bit higher.  Wow, we are truly blessed!

We were able to take some money from our sale to buy exercise equipment, and have the room to have it in the house - where it’s warm!  We don’t have everything yet, but I am enjoying working out at home.  I’m just getting back into it.  We have a really nice elliptical, dumbbells and an exercise ball.  We’re going to buy the rest of the stuff used, so we’re scouring craig’s list.  

The diet part is harder.  I got back into some bad habits that are proving hard to break, but I’ll get there.  The music stuff is keeping me busy and that seems to be the biggest obstacle.  I really need to plan ahead to eat right.  

Well, that’s enough for now.  I’m eventually going to post my weight again, but ……. just fill in every excuse you can think of here!