Summertime…

I’ve been a bit scarce of late, and for that, I apol­o­gize. Things have been rather busy around here — in the past few weeks, I actu­ally got a call­back from one of the many resumes I send out every week, and had not one, but two inter­views, both with pos­i­tive out­looks for the same job. I’ve been a ner­vous wreck, both really want­ing to get this job (it’s for a legal sec­re­tary — some­thing that I really enjoy doing), and wor­ry­ing about actu­ally get­ting it (I’d be run­ning an entire law office, and get­ting the job might mean that I wouldn’t get to go on an already planned fam­ily vaca­tion. I’ve been unem­ployed since last Octo­ber, and get­ting a job would mean a world of pos­si­bil­ity for both D and I, like finally being able to replace poor D’s 13 year old car.

I’m still try­ing to live healthy and con­tinue to lose weight, but things have not gone as well for me this past month. I’ve hit a plateau and instead of 2lbs a week, for the entire month of June, I’ve only lost 3 or 4 lbs. It’s been very frus­trat­ing, because I’m still fol­low­ing the same calo­rie restric­tion diet, record­ing ever calo­rie I con­sume, and exer­cis­ing as much as I can. I fin­ished the 30 Day Chal­lenge on the Wii Active, and am look­ing for­ward to set­ting up a new work­out sched­ule that’s more chal­leng­ing. I’ve also been bik­ing as much as I can, doing 7–10 miles a day and work­ing up to 20 mile roundtrip bike trip with my sister-in-law. I’m not sure what’s caus­ing my plateau, and I’m try­ing to stay moti­vated and not get dis­cour­aged by my lack of progress. I also bought a new dig­i­tal scale to replace my old ana­log one, and that put me back a lit­tle bit because I weighed about 3 lbs more on the new scale — right now I’m at 198.4 lbs. Over­all, I’m still doing very well — since I started, I’ve lost a total of 7 inches of my hips, 6 inches of my waist and 3 inches off my bust. I’m down to a size 16, and I got to thin out my closet and get rid of all of my “fat clothes”. But it’s been harder, not see­ing the num­bers on the scale change like I’d like them to.

I’m hop­ing to get back on track and regain my blog­ging mojo — I’ve got some great reviews com­ing up includ­ing some Can­dida Royale porn, sev­eral books, and another fab­u­lous Lib­er­a­tor shape! I’ve also got a whole slew of new shoes to show off — another pair arrived in the mail today! I’m also hop­ing to write some more erot­ica (and maybe sub­mit some of it) and take more pic­tures — tak­ing self-portraits last week made me real­ize how much I miss being behind the cam­era. So look for more inter­est­ing self-portraits and a new series fea­tur­ing my won­der­ful hus­band, D. Well, that’s all for now — here’s to more Sex and Shoes in the com­ing weeks!