The World According to Angela

There are a ton of things I'd love to see changed, but for this particular post, it will be strictly limited to those things that only I can change.  Since the emotional high of the holiday season is now past, it's time to make some changes for me.  I have two incurable but non life-threatening diseases, and they are really giving me a hard time right now - actually they have been increasingly so since I stopped pumping for Haley.  In the past, I have been able to keep the symptoms tolerable with a combination of a lower-carb diet (nothing extreme, just cutting out most, if not all, white sugars and flours) and regular exercise.  The latter used to be easy because I had a gym on-site at work, and could exercise during my lunch hour.  I knew I would miss that part about going in to the office!  But something has to give now.  My problems are not lessening, and in fact probably increasing in intensity (no need to thank me for sparing you the details) with each month.  Not only physically, but now it's screwing with my head.  I'm getting moody, short tempered, down in the dumps, and probably worst of all for me, fatigued.  When you have as much to do in a day as I do, fatigue is a HUGE issue.  So, time for a change.

As scared as I am for our finances, I am going to somehow find a way to join a health club.  This one to be exact, in case anyone else is a member.  It's by far the priciest I've seen, and that's the only bad part.  However, the good parts are plentiful.  The place is incredible.  So clean, so big, and so so family oriented.  That last one is the biggie for me.  Aaron is gone too much and too sporatically for me to rely on him to watch the kids and allow me to exercise.  This place has an incredible child care center which is included in the membership.  They even have computers!  They have an enormous pool complete with waterslides (both indoor AND outdoor), a huge rock climbing wall (and by huge, believe me, I mean gigantic), as well as supplemental activies for the kids on-site (including ballet!).  I've researched all of my options, and given Aaron's schedule, this is really the only thing that will work for me.  And the neat thing is the kids will get a benefit from this as well.

So that's it.  I have to feel better, and this is the only way I know how.  And I'm sure when my jeans get a little looser, I'll be even more happy.  But the real thing is I just need to feel human again.  I know I sounded so happy-go-lucky all holiday season, but this has been brewing in the background and it's just time to do something about it.

Aside from that, things are ok.  The kids were so excited to resume school this past Monday.  I have to enjoy that while it lasts, because I'm sure the day will arrive when I hear groans instead of laughter.  I signed them up for tee-ball again this year, so that will begin in April.  Connor has officially become a football nut and he pretends to play all the time.  I sure hope the Bears win!

I hope your 2007 has been off to a good start!