After stopping with the 5K program I found it to be easier to just not post anything about it here. My feet were hurting more and more and so I decided to stop. Again. Which totally blows, but I don't know what else to do. However, I stopped for a few weeks and Monday I started again. At least you can give me credit for being persistent, if I don't get credit for following through. I'm going to try it YET AGAIN in hopes that something gives and I see some tangible results this time and no pain.

Also, we've taken our house off the market. For a lot of reasons that I won't get into here – but the whole experience has been disappointing. Completely disappointing. The market decided to take a dump right when we were looking to sell. And as a perspective NEW home owner you tend to be able to really single out all the annoying things about your current house – which I now have to stay in. So, instead of crying about that I'm actually trying to fix some of the issues. Painting rooms and doing other "quality of life" kinds of improvements. So far they are turning out well.

Work is going pretty good. Might have some interesting opportunities coming down the pike, but, I'm not going to get my hopes up. Instead I'll just take things as they come. I've got a lot of things on my plate right now so staying busy is keeping me happier. I tend to focus less on the negatives and it really does make me feel good to have less negatives and more positives.

And lastly (not least-ly), the adoption. We're still waiting for any kind of word from China about our adoption. The latest info that the wife was able to find says that any NEW adoptions from there could now take on the order of 2-3 years! We hope to hear something soon – but I'm trying to stay grounded for my wife who is completely the opposite of grounded.