How's it going?

I can’t believe it’s the end of January already. No major life changing events have occurred this month, unless you want to count the fact that so far my resolutions are holding course. It’s been really snowy, which some folks hate, but I am loving this year. We’ve been skiing every weekend this January (yes I am counting it as exercise and work towards resolution No. 2) and the new snow every week has been great. Le Husband, who is in his first full season of skiing, is doing amazing and will be surpassing his experienced skier wife in no time! The little guy in our ski group, the soon to be seven year old, is tearing it up on his snowboard this year. He and his dad started out together and he is surpassing his dad already . . . who will probably not be shocked to hear me report that fact. I see big air half pipes in this kid’s life!!

Resolution No. 1 is also underway with the joining of Weight Watchers with a friend. Yep I’ve had something green every day! My friend is very driven and keeps me on track . . . just the thought of having to explain a week of no weight loss to someone who sends me motivational email and texts every day, is enough to make me think before shoving a cookie in my face. However I am not above eating a few hot chocolate chip cookies after a day of skiing; hey it was exercise people!!

Resolution No. 3 is kind of stagnant at the moment. However, February is going to be official ‘Purge Month’ in our house. Time to start getting rid of some of the piles of stuff. So that’s an update from me . . . how are your resolutions going?

xoxo

Resolutions

OK kids, it’s the first week of a new year, time to talk resolutions. By now, most folks are making their resolutions, have made them, or have already broken them. I’ve been giving them some semi-serious thought and find myself with the old clichés; lose weight, get in shape, and simplify my life (for me this means getting rid of stuff). I freely admit to being one of those people who make and break resolutions every year. While I don’t usually proclaim these ‘out loud’ . . . I figure if I don’t say them out loud, then I don’t have to publicly announce that I’ve broken them yet again . . . this year I’m putting them in this blog so they will be public knowledge!

So, before I make my big proclamation I figured I had better make these resolutions somewhat achievable; hey contrary to popular belief I’m not a total idiot! So here goes.

1. I will lose weight this year. That means I have to weigh less at the end of the year than I do now. In my attempt to achieve this goal I will try and eat something green every day . . .and I won’t count green M&M’s!
2. I will get in better shape. Since I’m in couch potato shape now, anything will be an improvement.
3. I will simplify my life by getting rid of stuff. The plan is to get rid of something for every new piece of something that comes into the house; so at a minimum I won’t be adding anything. Phase two is to get Le Husband to get rid of his pile of stuff stored in the basement, so I finish 2011 ahead of the game!

So there you have it, 2011 resolutions are official! Good luck to the rest of you out there on sticking to the resolutions.

xoxo