Day 2!

I ran a little farther and a little faster, and that's all we can hope for.

I'm considering doing a bootcamp style program sometime later to motivate me to get up at 5.30a because this is where we are at now: I think I need to get up at dark o'clock to find time to exercise during the week. Exercising in the evening is not working at all.

Main obstacles: coldness! darkness! warmness of bed and husband and cats!

Does P90X work? I'd be indoors and close to a shower.

I'd like to lose about 20 lb and be able to do a push-up is the rough goal for the year. Modest, but on the other hand, obtainable.

I'm also trying to learn self-acceptance. (This may be harder than the push-up.)

I generally wish I was a more creative person. Scratch that. I am a creative person, but the lack of actual creating is frustrating me and I'm feeling like I'm living an unfulfilled life.

Tomorrow, we go back to work. I'm consoling myself by thinking about where I want to go on vacation this year. Hawaii, yes. Chicago, maybe? New York? One of those weirdo retreat places where you eat vegetarian food and do yoga underneath an oak tree?

Dropped all the knives off to get sharpened. I really mean all of them. All we have left are steak knives. I'm not sure why I did it this way. We'll be forced to eat pre-cut vegetables and ice cream all week long till we get them back. (I'm kidding about the ice cream.) (Perhaps.)

I'm going to leave you with quotes from Wooden because I've been watching bowl games all day and Wooden kept on coming up during the Pac-12 commercials.

"Don't mistake activity with achievement."

“A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.” 


“There is nothing stronger than gentleness.”