Sorry my posts haven't been "real" (Leah), but things have been a little frantic lately, but here's a post for you all. Eat it up and give lots of comments.

I got an exercise bike on Tuesday. It took four hours to put that thing together, then I rode it for about ten minutes and didn't touch it again until tonight (Friday). We've been extremely busy. It was a good work out. I really am trying to lose weight and reduce my cholesterol. Pray for me and my discipline. This whole diet and exercise thing was spurred by my doctor telling me that I had high cholesterol. I really don't want to be unhealthy and I'm beginning to become self-conscious and less confident with each pound I gain. Great news however, I've come down from 241 lbs all the way to 230.5. I just completely cut out fast food, except for some occasions, like youth group night, and then I only get what seems to be the healthiest thing on the menu. Dieting is taking its toll on me. I felt very discouraged at the thought of having to give up so many of my favorite foods, but giving them up or facing the risk of heart attack made an easy choice for me. So, I've been doing well these last few weeks.

As I've said, things have been busy lately. With Pastor Al stepping down, a huge amount of responsibility has been spread over the members of church council, Mike Fell in particular. Our meetings are pretty much every week right now in order to stay on top of all our duties. Right now, most of the planning is involving Al's last day. I'm having the youth set up for a potluck and then clean up. What a crazy change this is, saying goodbye to our pastor. He did say that he's not leaving the church however. He made it clear that he felt this church was his home and planned on attending every Sunday.

Today we went to my parent's house and had Tacos. They really hit the spot. I kept my limit down to three. I can usually go for five and sometimes six, but I'm practicing discipline. While I was there I sat down with my mom, figured out their computer's problem (not enough hard drive space--6GB is too too small) and then I ordered them a new 100GB hard drive for $58 plus another $12 for a cooling fan. It's a 7200 RPM, so it was an excellent deal. I found it through www.pricewatch.com which is where I always go. If you ever need bargain prices on computer stuff, that's the place to go. So Mom, you system will finally have some guts.