Hello from MSP! We are currently en route back "home" to the Middle East and enjoying some spotty airport wifi so please excuse the lack of pictures...what better time to start blogging again? Here goes nothing...
It’s that time of year again Nuggets, when the excitement
and possibility that comes with a new year manifests into a 200% increase in
membership at the gym. I’m sure you’ve noticed your Facebook newsfeeds becoming
filled with public declarations to “cook more and eat out less,” “lose 20lbs by
summer,” “run a half marathon,” “focus more on family” and all that jazz. Now I
am not in any way saying that there is anything wrong with all of this (except
the additional 20minute wait for an open treadmill for a few weeks, but seeing
as I have not once encountered another soul at the gym in Saudi during the day
this doesn’t really apply to me this year.) I actually love the promise that
comes with a new year – it’s like when you get that brand new spiral notebook
at the beginning of the semester full of crisp white pages just waiting for
your neatly organized notes to be written with your color coordinated pens. But
at the end of the semester you start to resent that notebook as you stare at
the ratty torn pages at all hours of the night and you scribble in the margins
and over your neatly written notes.
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For me, the neatly written notes and carefully organized
notebook never lasted long into the semester. No matter how grand my ambitions
of a Martha approved study system or calendar, life inevitably got in the way.
But isn’t life getting in the way sometimes a good thing? I suppose you’re
wondering why on earth I am babbling on about notebooks at this point, my grand
analogy may have gotten the better of me…eh. Point being that I have never once
kept a New Years resolution, the closest I’ve ever come is giving up coffee for
Lent in 2008 and not cheating once. I’ve made workout resolutions, studying
resolutions, work related resolutions, and every single one hasn’t lasted
longer than maybe March on a good year. I’ve promised to keep this blog up more
times than I’ve actually written a post! This past year brought MANY ups and
downs that I never would have imagined and definitely couldn’t have planned for
and while I can’t say I loved every minute of it, I wouldn’t change any of it.
So this year, I am only resolving to stop planning so much and enjoy the ride a
little more. Who knows, maybe I’ll actually get my act together and get some of
2013’s adventures up here for all three of you readers. So cheers from 30.000ft (no idea if that is anywhere near correct) to you big
goal setters, I wish you all the best with your running, weight loss, cooking
classes, new jobs, and anything else your hearts desire!
Happy New Year!
-L
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