Well sadly I gained a small amount of weight this week.  I know it is totally related to my stress.  I am stressed and haven’t been eating the best and I only made it to the gym twice.  I hate making excuses, but life just got in my way this week and I didn’t try all that hard to combat it.  These weeks will happen and I am okay with that, as this is a long term goal and I have a long road ahead of me.  I also know that I will most likely not lose any weight next week while in Addis.  I will certainly try to eat reasonably and healthy but it will be a little difficult to do. 

So, I am no where near closer to my mini-September goal, but when I get back I will have plenty of time to be focussed and using WW to the best of my ability and I know it will work for me, as long as I work for it. 

For the first time I am at peace and not totally feeling like a failure.  Yay!

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Well, my carry-on crisis has been adverted and only cost me more money.  I think I actually have nearly a pound to spare in my carry-on.  I have my bags packed and both of them are under 50lbs which is nice and something I don’t have to worry about now too.  I am so ready to go and cannot wait to hold my baby girl.  I have crossed nearly everything off of my list except for cleaning up the house and going the grocery store. 

I am going to try and blog while in Ethiopia.  I imagine I should be able to because my site is not hosted with blogger or wordpress.  I use wordpress on my site, but I don’t have a wordpress address.  So we will see.  It would be funny if my site was blocked in Addis, but I seriously doubt it.  I didn’t blog on my trip to get Minnow and I am sad that I couldn’t because I would have like to have had a written record of my feelings.  I tried to keep a handwritten journal, but I sadly have become unable to write significant ideas and thoughts with pen and paper.  I really need a keyboard to do real writing.  Hard to belief I use to do all my writing longhand–I wrote a novel longhand and now I cannot even write a journal entry. 

Did I mention that I am leaving for Addis tomorrow?