Wow. This is still here. Felt compelled to write today. Actually, finally have a tiny bit of free time and found that I wanted to talk about what I am doing now.

Still working. Kids are growing and great. Still married. :) Things are fairly good, overall, I must say!

The new thing for me is that I am becoming a Zumba convert...quickly. I have attended classes, but only once a week at most for weeks--maybe two months now. But the past two weeks I have attended twice a week and this week, three or four times. I am finding that I enjoy this more than I have enjoyed anything in a VERY long time!

I am not coordinated. I do not dance. Once upon a time, I enjoyed dance, but I was never good at it. At all. :) I find that sometimes I am downright rigid and uncoordinated, but somehow I still find pleasure in bumbling around in Zumba classes. I really like the two instructors I have enjoyed taking classes with thus far and really hope that this is "it" for me.

You see I have NEVER enjoyed exercise. At. All. I loathe it really. I make myself do it and I try to get 3 or 4x a week in lately since I started working on my efforts to lose weight, wholeheartedly. It took months to work up the confidence to approach the instructor to see if I might possibly be "okay" trying out a class. He said yes. So I did, the very next day.

To my pleasant surprise there were OLD people there. There were FAT people there. There were people WAY less coordinated. :) Of course there were some thin and athletic people. There were some downright awesome and fluid hip-shakers as well. It was a great mix of people! So I went back.

With school and field trips and nap times, it has been hard to make it more than once, but things have opened up with Elena finishing Kindergarten. I am excited to have more flexibility in my schedule with my own course load, too, so I am taking advantage of it. Come fall things will rev up again, so until then, I am going to make Zumba as often as possible and ride this wave.

I have NEVER enjoyed sweating --ever. Honestly, I still don't like the 'sweating' part but I *do* like feeling like I am accomplishing something and that I am sticking to it.

I hope I can continue. I have every intention to.