After a month long visit home to South Africa, Taryn is back.  A month is a long long time, and I am very happy to have her back.  It seems like she had a good time, and for that I’m glad.  It had been too long since she last got to see her family, so this trip was long overdue.  But now she’s back, and that is a good thing as far as I’m concerned.  I haven’t seen her pictures yet, but I’m sure she’ll share them, and the videos, on flickr sometime soon.

As for me, I’m keeping plenty busy.  There is quite a lot of consulting work to do, and I’m also quite far behind in my paperwork for the photography business.  There are invoices to be shipped, account packages to be installed, branding work (logos, fonts, etc) to be done, website updated to implement, and lots of prints and albums to complete.  There is no shortage of work to do, and time is always the limiting factor.

Healthwise, we’re both doing okay.  I’m still scrambling to line up insurance for us, but I’m more focused on losing all the weight that I’ve built up these past two years.  A couple of month ago, Taryn bought a pair of jeans for me in the size I was wearing when we met.  They don’t fit, and she offered to return them.  I said no, since that would be giving up, which I’m not prepared to do.  Now that spring is definately here, walks/runs and other outdoor activities will be the order of the day.  If I get into the NYC Marathon in November (which I’ll find out in June), I’ll have a great goal to focus on for my running.  In the meantime, it’s morning workouts, and trotting around the neighborhood with the dogs.