New Years Goals

How are y'all's new year's resolutions going?  Jeez that sentence was a mess of awkward contractions and possessives...  Don't judge me...

Mine are going great.  Wait, what did I resolve again?  (wait while I pull up the old blog post)  Oh yeah...

Running is going ok...  I certainly haven't given up, but things keep getting in the way.  I know, I know, "you have to MAKE time for it", but I don't think that really applies to foot injuries, food poisoning, and exploding deadlines at work.  I have a conference next week, and when I get home from that, life will settle down.  I did go running over the weekend while I was in Vegas, and ran a mile nonstop (which I used to not be able to do at all... Anyone remember me in high school?  I pretended to have a untied shoe every half lap so I could stop and catch my breath) in 12.5 minutes.

Hopefully all the January gym bandwagoners give up soon so it's not so crowded.  It helps that I've quit using the elliptical machine (I realized I was using it as a crutch because I didn't think I could run) which are usually the most crowded, but it's pretty hard to find a treadmill some days.  Usually I can find a bike without too much trouble :)

I've been cooking a LOT lately, and buying less crap.  I did my first big grocery store run at our local/natural grocery store, and I'm starting to learn where everything is.  It's surprisingly hard to find everything (especially in the canned goods aisle) when you don't recognize the normal brands, and when there aren't 50 bajilion brands of everything, i.e. canned tuna).  And I'm starting to get in the habit of making a big batch of brown rice at the beginning of the week to have with meals.  Curse it taking about two hours up here at altitude.  Grr.  Oh, and I've lost about six pounds, but food poisoning is responsible for about two of them.  I think Stefano's losing weight too since he's training for the half marathon too, and he's stuck eating what I cook for him.  ::evil laugh::

Wow I'm really babbly today.

Haven't gotten my bike yet, but I'll start saving up for it.  This spring is going to be expensive between getting Molly spayed and getting Stefano's deviated septum fixed.  Plus I started having more withheld from my paycheck to go into my 401k, so my paycheck is smaller even though I got a little raise.  I opened a new savings account with a better interest rate (and less accessible so I don't pull money from it for random stuff) and set up a fixed monthly transfer into there.

And yes, I cleaned out my pantry and tossed old stuff, and bought new baking soda and baking powder.


Addendum:  I also have been much better about tv, mostly because I haven't had time for it.  One could argue that I've replaced it with playing video games with my husband, but I don't mind that vice for now.  The exception being that I watched a few episodes of crappy tv this weekend while I was sick, and after Spike decided to break my heart and replaced CSI with UFC.  Really??? Blech.