Resolution..... shot to shit!

Day 10 of the new year and already I've completely f**ked my resolutions.  I'm eating like a starving sumo wrestler!  What the hell - self... If it sits still long enough I'm eating it!  I also, dropped the ball on the whole working out thing... Worked out Sun, Mon and Thurs and that's it.  I've just been so exhausted lately... excuses...excuses... excuses... so I'm re-dedicating TOMORROW!! Hitting the grocery store and stocking up on salad stuff and fruit - it's going down tomorrow!!

Hallelujah!! Hallelujah! It's finally done!

After weeks and weeks and weeks of nagging, begging and practically crying... Zack finally submitted his last 2 college applications - Va Tech and George Mason are on their way!!  I think the only reason he got them done, is because I told him he didn't have to do them.  I wanted him to go to NOVA and live in the basement forever!  #reversepsychology!

We are done and now all that is left is the horrible waiting!  UVa should let us know by the end of the month and the other 2 are April.  Fingers crossed he gets his wish!

First Mis-step on my road to resolutions...

God Damn, it was cold and dark this morning.... I tried, I really tried to get out of bed and go to the gym.  But it was so cold, and so dark and my new flannel sheets are so soft and so warm... and it was 430am and I was heading to the treadmill at Golds... enough said...

I do feel bad about it, I really do....

Even the dogs won't get up...


"Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it yet."  - L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

Second Step on my road to resolutions - 5 Year Journal

I found this cool idea on Facebook on doing a 5 year journal.  I think it's doable, because it's really only one sentence everyday.  You can write anything you want or there's a list of simple questions you can answer each day.  Then you answer the same questions each day for the next 5 years.  So, you can see the changes from year to year.   I found a really cool, old library drawer and I'm just going to use index cards.  I've decorated the divider cards with extra scrapbooking stuff and if I feel like getting my creativity on, I could decorate each question card as well.  I fill the card out right before I go to bed, and pull the next days out and put it on the counter.
If I can stay with it, I think it will really be cool to see the different responses each year.

First step on my road to resolutions....

I ran 4 miles today... 2.5 up to Gold's Gym and then 1.5 home!  I also did the Sunday Erg class - 10,295 meters....

Also, decided to hit up the juice to get me in the right frame of mind...  Today's the first day and it's hard...seems harder than usual... maybe because John and Zack are eating stuffed crust pizza RIGHT NOW!  Bastards! 

I stepped on the scale this morning and it's not where I would like it to be.  Despite making an effort to eat better and work out, that number seems to be creeping up again.  I know it's not about the number...but that's really not true... it's always about the number.  Granted I am in far better shape than I've ever been in and muscle weighs more than fat....which is what everyone says when they gain weight....but could it be true?  I'd really rather prefer to be muscley and have a really low number on the scale! :o)  In the mean time... I'm just going to keep fighting the good fight!

Goals not resolutions....

I quit making resolutions a number of years ago, then I started running and I "resolved" to continue with it and decided to make goals instead.  The first year was 1 5K a month - done, 2nd year - 1 race a month including a Half Marathon - done, last year run/row 2015 kilometers - done (barely) but done.  I went back and forth trying to figure out what goal I wanted to accomplish this year.  I've been in such a running funk that I couldn't decide if I should choose a running goal in the hopes that it would make me run more or if I should just let it go and come up with something else...  I decided that since I had a pretty successful rowing season and I want to get better and stronger so that I can continue with the racing women and more importantly my bow buddy, I'd make a rowing goal.  So....
2016 Goal...

1,000,000 meters!!  

Water and erg meters.  I'm going to continue to run, because it helps my rowing, but I'm going to let the focus be more on the rowing and less on the running.  I think it might help me with the running.  If I'm just running to help stay fit for rowing and not racing then time is really not as big a factor so I can just run to run and not worry about pace or time!  Win, Win!

Part 2 - I'm going to work on cultivating a more "go with the flow" attitude.  I'm going to try and relax a little bit more, let things happen.  I spend so much time worrying about the future and trying to envision every scenario that could possibly happen, that I make myself miserable.  Try and let other people do more, let somethings fall by the wayside... this may be the hardest resolution/goal I've ever embarked on...

Happy New Year 2016

Is it lame or smart?  We did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to bring in the New Year. I've always thought New Years Eve was an overrated holiday.  Big expectations, RARELY does it ever live up to them. I've always preferred to stay home or at most go to a friends house.  John and Zack drove home from Buffalo today, so they'd had enough together time.  I erged in the morning... so was tired anyway.  Brenna, of course, is off galavanting around Costa Rica!

Moscato with strawberries, so yummy

I asked Brenna to send me a pic of what she was doing at midnight, and this is what I got.  Not sure who the goober in the front is, but you can see B in the back and it looks like she's having fun.

About 9:30pm before we all decided that the new year would arrive without us paying attention, took the requisite selfie and we all went to bed!  Sure enough 2016 arrived with no help from us!