New Year's Resolutions for 2009

Before writing down my 2009 New Year's Resolutions, I reviewed my 2008 list to make sure that I stuck to the list. In 2008, I ran a marathon, finshed and had fun...check. Hiked Half Dome in Yosemite...check. Maintained overall health and wellness...check. Donated my hair to Locks of Love...check. Yes, I donated 12 inches of my hair in September 2008. I had been growing it out since I went to Officer Basic Course for the ARMY in June of 2003. The picture is me with with my youngest son, Nicholas. He is so cute!

For 2009, I am going to do a triathlon. To help accomplish that goal, I need to eat better and more often. When I'm at work, I forget to eat which I know is terrible. I need to sleep more, yeah that will be a tough one considering I not only have one full time job, but two...CRNA and Mommy of 3. Another resolution for 2009 is to have more fun with my kids. I want to make sure that I can balance my training/work schedule and still have plenty of time and energy for the kids, not to mention my husband. Not sure how I will accomplish that one...but I will figure it out. One of the biggest things I need to do...drum roll...stretch more...I have been injury free...but now I will be using different muscles with each sport, so I want to make sure I stretch not only after activity, but at the beginning. I'm faithful about stretching after I workout, but not so much after I'm warmed up.

January 1st was here and is now gone. I was one of the many people at the gym to workout as part of my "New Year's Resolutions." It felt awesome to go and swim for 24 minutes and then bike for 30 minutes. I even ran a bit on the treadmill...just to work on the transition from biking legs to running legs. Today, I just lifted some weights and did some core work. After having 3 babies in 3 years, my core needs some work! I know where my weaknesses are and I intend on working on them this year and CORE is one of them. My abs are not going to know what hit them.

Another resolution is to drink less...no I'm not an alcoholic, but I do love a nice cold beer. I want to maintain a lean body mass and drinking beer will just make me work that much harder to maintain. My plan is to have an ice cold beer at the finish line in Boise on June 13th! maybe even two or three...hee hee. Basically, if I write it down as a resolution, I have to stick to it, no matter what. It is that Type A, obsessive/compulsive person in me.

So, my parents 50th Wedding Anniversary was awesome. Imagine being married to someone for 50 years? Are people still together for that long of a time? Yes, it still does happen although it is rare. I had a blast with them. In fact the picture above was from that party. The video I put together ended up being 10 minutes long, (90+ pictures with 3 songs) and took several sleepless nights before I had a finished product. The bottom line is that my Mom & Dad loved it and so it was worth the loss of beauty sleep. This is my parents and my older brothers and sisters. Yeah, I'm the youngest of 5.

Well, that is it for now....time to go get some sleep. The problem is I'm not tired. Ugh...

I have one thing to say about my 2009 Resolutions...

FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION!