It's time for my Monday check-in:

Weight Loss this week: 2 pounds
Total Weight Lost: 27.5 pounds
Miles walked: 16 miles
Miles run: 2 (slowly, but it's a start)
Average Temperature this week: 25 million degrees below zero
Scarves finished: 5
Total scarves since moving to Iowa: 12


It's been a much better day today. I slept late, which I desperately needed, and then actually got busy doing all of the things I had put off from the weekend. I returned email, while drinking a lot of coffee, returned a number of phone calls, and got started planning my classes for the week. The afternoon was gone in a flash and it was time to walk to school for a production meeting. The meeting went well, and most of my concerns were things that have been changed in my favor so I no longer have to deal with them. After the meeting, I attended rehearsal, and then walked home. That's the short and sweet of it, concerning my day, and as I said, the feelings from the weekend were gone.

I've dealt with depression my whole life, and in the past 7 or 8 years it's been kept in check by a number of different methods: Exercise, medication, therapy, healthy eating, etc. The one thing I have come to terms with over the past few years is that no matter how depressed I am, I know it's not going to last. Sometimes, I have to stop my pity party and remind myself that's true but I just tell myself that if I get some sleep, hold on and in a couple of days it will be gone. For the most part, for the last few years this has worked. That was very much how I dealt with this past weekend.

Thanks to everyone who offered their words of support this past weekend. It always makes me feel better to know that I am not alone. So if you stopped by and left a comment thank you. If you didn't leave a comment thank you too. It's kind of funny but according to the counter on my sight more people are stopping by my blog than ever before and yet the comments have been slipping. I don't understand why, but I'm just glad that people are stopping by to see what I have to say.