Happy birthday to me.

Well it's my birthday today. yippee.

I thought I would take a second to update what's been going on. What happened this year, what I hope to happen next.

What happened last year?

We'll call this the year of wiping the slate clean. It started out aptly enough with the break up of me and my fiance. I then moved into a tiny basement apartment that has suited me just fine. A few weeks into the new year I was laid off from my job. This leaves me with a fresh pallet to paint on. I like it.

Along the way I've started writing poetry again after a 20 year hiatus, reconnected with a former passion and started coaching track again. I've found a nifty little hobby that may turn into a full time deal, more on that when the time comes. The dog has gotten older, I've gotten younger and skinnier, or to be more precise...less fat.

The single greatest thing to happen this year is the discovery of face book. This may be the single greatest invention in the history of mankind. I've been able to reconnect with many many people, stay connected much more effectively with the ones i should, and mostly it allows me to spend just as much time with other peeps as i want. It has changed my life.

The year ahead.

My goals this year are simple. To simply find a peaceful comfortable existence. I don't require much money so I don't need a great job, just one that provides enough. The answer may lie in my hobby, but we'll see. I also want to continue with somethings I have began this year. I want to coach again and I want to write more.

Details.

I've been continuing to run at least twice a week and have avoided the urge to do it a third by replacing those times with a long walk. So in essence i run twice and walk once or twice. I'm feeling in better health all the time. I've also resumed my diet, I have crashed through that pesky 200lb barrier and am now at 197. 195 is an important mark for me as it is at that point i move out of the obese category and into the pleasantly plump category. If you want to know what that actually means, it's about the point where my stomach doesn't hang anymore. So that intermediate goal isn't really a number so much as a body shape characteristic. 180 is the big goal, although when I get there I hope to go a little lower, just to do better than the last time i lost weight.