May 7 – Wednesday – ?

The ex called last night and said “please don’t tell me you’re sitting on the couch with a gallon of ice cream.” He had just checked in on my blog sensing we were coming to an end. In fact, I had just put Bruce’s The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle on the turntable and was about to start my workout, and the ice cream bar left over from the last gathering I had here nearly two weeks ago is still in the freezer. I do think about it a lot though. It won’t be there much longer, but so far so good.

The ex didn’t know what I was going to do now, and neither do I, but as I have my 20 workout albums, I promise I will continue to exercise to them. It is hard, picking the record that I want to exercise to when for the past nine months I had no say in the matter, taking whatever came next, though sometimes I did put my foot down.

There is still so much work to do. I’ve not lost nearly as much weight as I’d hoped and the belly still protrudes flabbily. At least I’ve muddled through the entire record collection and found those records that will best help me on my quest to one rockin’ body. And though that part of my fitness report does not provide such good news, I am impressed with the fact that I have stepped up certain aspects of the workout like the elbow to knee crunches that I started at two repetitions of 12 in between leg lifts, upped to 24 each, and now can do at least 30 each time, sometimes 60. And try not losing 20 pounds listening to “Rosalita.” But what to do about the blog. The project is over. Is the blog?