New Year's Resolution #1: Blog at least once
week
The last 3 weeks have been filled with numerous activities - a 3 day bout with the flu, holiday dinners, more snow 'fun' runs with Peter, goodbye to some dear friends and even some exciting new beginnings.
The week before Christmas I was struck with a round of the flu. I missed 3 days of work, swim practice, indoor cycling class, a holiday party and dinner with friends. Of course, I had to call my parents for sympathy and the first words out of my mom's mouth are 'Are you taking a multi-vitamin?' I wasn't and it's not because I'm lazy. Honestly, I hate having to swallow those big vitamin horse pills. Why can't they make Flinstones' vitamins for adults? Is that so hard? Turns out, Centrum makes some orange-flavored chewable multi-vitamins.
New Year's Resolution #2: Take a Multi-Vitamin on a daily basis
I was so anxious for Christmas this year. As our family has gotten older, we have started a Christmas Eve tradition that I've grown to love. Our immediate family gathers at my parent's house around 3pm on Xmas eve. My dad has a fire going in the fireplace and my mom lights a bunch of candles. We have every kind of holiday food imaginable and we just spend time together. This year was something else, let me tell you. I didn't know my parents owned as much wine as they did! I think our family of 5 plus a few others managed to polish off close to 14 bottles of wine. That's a lot of vino. Nothing like being slightly hammered with your parents, siblings, aunt and uncle. I think I passed out on the couch around midnight while the rest of the family was still celebrating the holiday.
The following morning was particularly hard on my brother. It's a good thing we do presents on Xmas Eve, because my brother couldn't manage to drag himself out of bed until 11am on Xmas Day. I won't say I wasn't feeling it and vowing that next year I would drink far less wine on Xmas Eve.
Christmas Day festivities took place at my grandparent's home. There was the usual dinner and gift opening. Typically we do family pictures prior to food and gifts, but this year my grandma waited until the bitter end. I was cranky and just wanted to go home. It wasn't pretty, but I managed to get out of there at reasonable hour and head home.
Once I got home, I had a great surprise in store for me. Let's just say the best presents are the ones that don't come in packages and cost just $34.99.
New Year's Resolution #3: Graduate from the 'Kid' picture by next Christmas.
Training has been tough. It's been crazy busy around here in December between work, holiday parties, getting sick, hanging out with friends and family, teaching indoor cycling....Somewhere in that chaos, I have to try to fit training in. I haven't gotten in as much as I wanted, but it's been enough to ward off all the holiday food I've ingested. I did decide to take this week off of swim altogether. We are between sessions and I really needed a good solid week where I didn't have to get up at 515am on a daily basis. Its been awesome and I'm even looking forward to getting back to working hard in the pool again.
Peter and I have been doing our usual runs, but I can honestly say we haven't had too many of our usual antics during the runs. The snow/ice have hung around and have made the runs somewhat treacherous, but we are getting used to it. On a somewhat related note, I have done a MUCH better job at doing my gait exercises regularly. Turns out, my inner thigh muscle and butt muscles are kinda weak, which causes me to run funny and have arch pain. I'm gonna try and fix that.
New Year's Resolution #4: Ride and Run faster with stronger butt muscles. (In other words, do my damn exercises!)
On December 13th, Jess finally came back to Madison. After being away in Santa Cruz for 4 months it was great to have her smiling face back in this part of the country. The visit would be short though. Both she and Sean were moving to Santa Cruz permanently around December 29th. It is truly the end of an era for one of my circles of friends here in Madison. I've known Sean since 1999 when we took economics classes together at UW Madison. Jess, the love of Sean's life, came into the picture in 2003. They have been amazing friends through it all. We shared some good times while they were here this last month: Celebrating Jess' Graduation, watching the Packers lose, enjoying wine and chex mix and gathering for one last meal at the Pancake Cafe. It was sad to drive away from them, but now I have one more place to visit. Santa Cruz here I come!
New Year's Resolution #5: Stay in better touch with those who are near and dear.
New Year's Resolution #6: Travel More.
I typically don't like to write in this blog regarding my 'love' life and I'm not going to announce many details...but I've been lucky enough to meet a very sweet guy that I enjoy spending time with. Currently, he's a guest star that is auditioning for a leading role. If he makes the cut and enjoys the show, I'm sure you'll see more of him on here.
New Year's Resolution #7: Don't overanalyze life so much. You may miss out on something.
I don't really believe in the idea of New Year's Resolutions. I believe you can change your life on any given day. The New Year just happened to coincide with some changes I want to make in my life. So I guess those changes become New Year's Resolutions.
Happy New Year!
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