Happy New Year! (part 2)

Remember January? It seems like such a long time ago. Anyway, since it’s been over a month since I last posted anything here, I thought I would take this time to update all three of my readers on what’s going on in my life.

First of all, happy birthday to me. 36 feels just like 35. I got an IPod Shuffle, which has been great at work, since I spend a lot of time alone here. There was something else I was going to add to this paragraph, but every time I remember it, I’m somewhere else with nothing to write on.

Remember those resolutions at the beginning of the year? So far I am down 12 ½ pounds. We got a very nice tax return, part of which was used for a Nautilus-style weight machine, so I have been lifting consistently for the last two weeks and, since the weather remains unseasonably mild here, I’ve started jogging again too. Add that to a renewed commitment to a proper diet (no Atkins this time, just avoiding bad fats and bad carbs) and the weight just starts sliding off. There are, of course, hiccups along the way; it seemed like there was free food everywhere in February, so I could probably have lost more if I had tried to. But my motto is, “Never turn away free food. Unless it’s yucky.”

The other resolutions are pretty much unchanged. But ya gotta start somewhere, right?