stuff, or maybe stiff would be more appropriate...

It has been absolutely beautiful this weekend.  I went snow shoeing yesterday.  And the day before.  Days and activities like these make the winter worth it.  Yesterday we took a friend that had never been before and she took it like a champ.  She didn't even trip!  Can't say as much about the rest of us.  Apparently the trail we went on was an ideal location for snow men?  We passed 8-10 of them in 3 miles; tall ones, short ones, skinny ones, incomplete ones, dying ones...they were all there.  Kind of felt like I was walking through a Calvin and Hobbes comic book. As we were talking the newbie through the beginning of snow shoeing, we told her that in deeper snow we find muscles that we forgot we had.  Pretty sure that happens with many activities that we do, but I am most recently fascinated by the effects of snow shoeing on my calves. Oh boy. There was not an overwhelming amount of snow yesterday.  We saw people on the trail just hiking. I don't understand why the calves gave me so much grief.  I'll get over it, I always do.

Things that make me happy...

1) Thai food
2) blue sky and sunshine
3) warm fuzzy electric throw blankets
4) Excel spread sheets
5) new calendars

Happy New Year

It's January 3rd.  There are 362 days left in 2014.  I have a lot of time left to do a lot of things.  In 2013 my New Years Resolutions were all based on the word "choose".  Choose to act rather than be acted upon.  Choose to be important.  Choose to be in control of your own life.  All in all, I consider 2013 to have been a successful year.  I lost 40 pounds.  I got a promotion and a raise.  I learned a lot about myself and feel like I gained a lot of tools to implement in the future. 2014 will be a good year for implementation.  This year's word is "progress".  Take it and run with it.  I know what works and I know what I have to do to make it work.  It's all up to me.  This year is my year. Happy 2014 friends.  Make it your year too. 

I'm going to preface this with, "I'm a nice person, I promise." Having said that, I'm not the easiest person in the world to get a hold of.  I usually forget my phone exists once I get home from work.  I spend most of my days on the phone or on hold and I just don't feel an overwhelming desire to continue the cycle in the comfort of my own home.  

Wanna guess what I'm doing?  

Right now?  

I'm on hold.  

Yup. Just ate dinner and have now moved on to blogging as I sit next to my phone and listen to the "your hold time is x minutes" announcements. I'm down to 7 minutes.  Yay me.  Why would I be doing this?  Good question.  I'm going home for Thanksgiving.  It's been seven years since I was home for turkey, Aunt Dorice's pies, and the Nebraska bowl game.  It's about time, right?  That's what I thought.

Good news!!! They picked up! and I'm going home!!!

Can I tell you how happy I am that it's 79 degrees at 8:40pm?
My heart is happy.
I feel so blessed this evening.
I have a body,
It heals on its own.
I have a family that loves me.
Especially a mom.
I have a house with air conditioning.
I can sit on the porch.
I planted 40 petunias.
Then the cottonwood tree snowed.
I took zyrtec
And can still enjoy the back yard.
I have a warm fuzzy bed.
I'm curious to see what this week will bring.
I know the blessings will continue.

Springtime insights

*I remembered to take out my contacts tonight. Definite progress.
*I proved Brady's 9:00 rule last week.  Anything you try to do after 9:00 pm you can do better in half of the time tomorrow. I also learned how to make yellow cake from scratch.
*I've been running more.
*Spring still makes me sneeze.
*While watching TOP GEAR I realized that I am a girlie girl.  Not because I know very little about cars, but because while they were talking about some car going 0 to 120 in x minutes, I was thinking about my new flat iron that will go from 0 to 450 in 30 seconds.
*Going to an art museum tomorrow. Try to be cultured.

spontaneity or stupidity?

I just registered for a 5k in April and a 10k in May.  

They're both supposed to be pretty.

That should help, right?