January 4, 2009
One of my New Year’s Resolutions is to write each and every day in 2009.
Another one of my New Year’s Resolutions is to get back on track with my eating and begin running again.
I’m doing better on the first than the second, despite what it may look like around these parts. I’ve been updating a little bit on Facebook and then I’ve also been updating the blog we started because….
We are buying a house.
If you read my last entry, that may come as a shock (unless you have me added on Facebook, and then you’re well aware). At the time I last wrote here, we were planning to wait until the end of the school year.
Well, once we let go of some reins that we were trying to control a little too much, The Universe stepped in and started driving the wagon and well, we will find out about the appraisal tomorrow and if it is fine, then we will be on track to closing on the 16th of January and will move two weeks later. Pretty exciting stuff.
Yes, we are moving out of Folsom, but just barely. It’s a cute little three bedroom five minutes across the river from Folsom and even though it’s the “crappy house among all the nice houses”, we are so freakin’ excited we can’t even stand it. We will be able to keep The Girlie in her activities in Folsom and will still be close to friends, one of whom works for the school district we’re moving into and assures us that whichever of the two schools that are closest to us we end up being zoned for are both EXCELLENT. One of them is even a “Rapid Learning” school, which I think The Girlie would absolutely thrive in.
So, yeah. Pretty damn exciting!
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As for the second resolution: It took until day four of the new year, but I’m having a stellar day. Ate well and even got out to exercise.
The Girlie wants to walk to school tomorrow and I have a goal of walking every day this week, so despite the frigid temps, I will bundle up The Jelly and we will be hoofing it tomorrow. I need to go by Target and the bank, too, so maybe I’ll get a good two-mile walk in tomorrow.
My goal this week is to walk every day this week. Next week, I plan to restart either C25K or the Spark program. That will put me into March and apparently, there is no 5K portion of the Shamrock’n Half Marathon this year, so I will have to find another race to register for to keep myself motivated.
Which… no one seems to have updated yet. Okay, well, I’ll be doing SOMETHING. Then, of course, training for Run With Nature for a third time in May and this year, I swear, I need to the Four Bridges and am hoping to run relay on the California International Marathon.
I can’t hedge my bets on this stuff anymore. It’s just stuff I want to do so very badly and I miss running and there are plenty of people I can train with (even though I know I won’t, since I just want to do it on my own), so really, there is just no excuse, at all.
Time to get back out there.