I'm compelled to blog on a fairly frequent basis and it doesn't happen for a variety of reasons. Most of them are not very good ones and involve time wasting (e.g. Facebook, playing Kingdom Rush (LOVE this game!), & almost any show that Netflix carries from TLC) but things still continue to be hectic with school, kids' activities, and finding time with friends. I started training to participate in a 5k at the end of August and, since I quickly experienced positive changes from regular activity, I've kept it up. Recently (as in this last Sunday), I joined our local LA Fitness and met with a personal trainer to discuss my health and fitness goals. I spent about half of my hour with him talking and then he took me through a workout focusing on arms and core. (Normally it would have included legs too but we both agreed it would be best not to do that since I run the 5k this Saturday.) As I write, the muscles in my arms still burn and are sore and twisting certain directions ignites my mid-section. This is not an unpleasant thing, however, and I committed to working with a trainer twice a week and am really looking forward to well and truly making this year my best to date on ALL levels.
I've been keeping up with my "Go somewhere/Do something new each month" resolution so far (July, August, and September will be updated soon) and will meet that goal for the year. I hope to kick it up a notch in the next year but I'm not sure how I'll manage that. There's a world of new out there so I'm not too concerned. Let's see if my other resolutions are being met... Let's start with the Energy category.
Boosting Energy: I'm certainly not meeting my sleeping goal, nor have I been absent from the house for 24 hours each month. (As I successfully meet some of the other goals, being away for an entire day is proving to be less important to me than when I made these goals at the end of 2011.) I've maintained meal planning and don't have problems with not repeating meals.
Boosting Spirituality: Uh, no. I haven't done with one of those things on anything resembling a regular basis. I am managing to get to and be more involved with MSUS again though so that's something.
Boosting Parenting: I haven't met these goals entirely but they weren't as full of fail as the previous category. I still have time to finish photo books so there's a chance...
Boosting Finance: This category has been a much more successful one. We paid off both the window loan and the credit card so I'm feeling very good about that. I haven't tried cash only for a month yet but I was recently encouraged by a friend that does this and am considering it for November. It just seems like such a foreign idea to actually use paper money after having a debit card for so long that it seems fiddly and irritating. We'll see I suppose.
Boosting Relationships: This has been the most productive and successful of all of the categories in my opinion and I feel like I'm ending the year with a wonderful, supportive group of friends. I need to make a better, and sustained, effort with my long distance friends and I could facilitate that in large part with regularly updating this blog so they have some idea of what I'm up to. Facebook is all well and good for little daily things, but it doesn't lend itself well to something as long as this post is becoming.
Boosting Play: Also another really successful category that I've already spent some time discussing. To my dismay, a monthly drag night has not come to fruition and I blame that on myself as I've had opportunity but was usually lax in making it happen. I have enjoyed reruns of RuPaul's Drag Race though so I haven't been in complete drag withdrawal.
So, good! That's a pretty decent update of where I'm at on my resolutions. This isn't at all what I intended to write when I sat down with the laptop but here it is in its entirety.
