Wow, its been a while! Plenty has been going on, I just haven't taken the time to write about any of it!
So anyway, here is a quick little update:
1. I enrolled in Western Governors University (WGU) and will be starting the MBA - Management and Strategy program on April 1st! I am super excited. I have missed school. I always enjoyed being in college. So I am looking forward to going back. It will be very different this time around though. In the past I always held a full time job while going to school full time, but on top of that I have a 5 year old now! My husband works evenings and my current job is much higher stress and responsibility than it was back in my college days. So this time around I am going to do it all online. I love having that option now. Back when I was in school the last time, there were a few online courses offered at University of Colorado, where I went, but not enough to complete a degree. The other awesome aspect of WGU is that its a self paced program. So I could theoretically finish faster than the typical two years. Of course, its just my nature to try to speed it up...so my goal is to finish in a year. Easy for me to say considering I haven't started yet! We'll see how it goes!
2. I'm still working out daily, well for the most part. I try to go every morning before work. I try to get there at 5am. I used to be really successful at it. I started almost exactly two years ago, and for the first year I think I only missed three mornings. Seriously! I was hard core! I was seeing so much progress that I was afraid if I started allowing myself to miss days, that I would miss more and more and pretty soon abandon what I had started. Plus I had friends meeting me there. We all depending on each other. Some days just knowing one of the girls was expecting me was all that got me there! Then the start of the second year hit. I started out strong, but gradually fell back. By Labor Day of last year I was frustrated, burned out and having issues with my legs. So I pretty much stopped. It was gradual I guess. During the summer I was missing one day a week on average. But sure enough, once I started allowing myself to miss a day, I started missing a bunch of them! I had an extended break for all of September and October, and half of November. But as soon as I was able to, I jumped back in the saddle. I haven't been as strict, but I am still going. My goal for this week was to go all 5 days. But this morning I woke up with a migraine. So this won't be the week I hit my goal either.
3. My legs....oh man do I have a lot to say about that. I will save that for another post or two. Lets just say, it was a much more drawn out process than I ever imagined. I'm still not 100%, but I am getting closer. I am glad I did it, but wow its been quite an ordeal. I learn a lot about myself and my body though, which is good!
4. Morgan is still the light of my life, of course! She is 5.5 yrs old and what an amazing little girl she is turning out to be. She constantly amazes and wows me. I can't believe I created that little bundle of joy, imagine, wonder and energy!
5. I'm not all that content in my job. I don't know why, I should be. I have a ton of responsibility, and even more flexibility. Its a great fit for my life right now, its just not fullfilling for some reason. hence the reason I am going back to school I guess. I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. I just know that estimating floor covering and being a project manager for commercial construction jobsites does not seem to be it! :)
6. Having a school aged child is exhausting. For some reason I feel this guilt for not being able to help out in the classroom and at the school all the time. I want to be there, but can't. So I do as much as I possibly can. I am the Daisy Troop Leader, I am the Boxtops Committe Chair for the PTO, I am room mom for the Kindergarten class, and a member of the Photography Committe for the PTO. Yes, it wears me out just thinking about it! Its been fun though!
7. Photography is still an major interest. I just don't find myself grabbing my camera as much in the colder months. Now that its lighter so much later in the evenings, I am itching to take more pictures again! I am signed up for a really cool photography class in April that involves wine and chocolate and is for ladies only. Its nothing racy, just a moms night out type photography class. Should be fun!
8. I already talked about exercise...lets talk about "eating clean". Man, who knew that was just an effective diet and why have I not tried that before! Forget all the fad diets and counting points...eating clean is where its at! I haven't been able to exercise as much as I used to, or as hard as I would like...but thanks to eating clean, I lost 7lbs in January. It was all the weight I gained during the surgeries and the holidays! It wasn't even that hard to do. It turns out, I actually like healthy food, alot! I could eat my weight in sushi, and for the most part thats considered clean! Hooray!
9. I've been watching The Biggest Loser this season. I don't watch a whole lot of tv anymore, but thats one show that Morgan and I both love. Did you see Danni? She started at 238lbs I believe. And she is 163lbs as of this week. She did that in 11 weeks. When I started out I was 224lbs, so 14lbs lighter than her, and now I am 163lbs as well. It took me 5 years to do that! Slow and steady wins the race right! I can't believe I just mentioned my weight! But you know what, I am pretty darn proud of what I have achieved, so 163lbs is awesome to me! I'm not where I want to be yet, though I don't necessarily have an end weight goal in mind either. I wouldn't mind hiting 147lbs, just because thats the weight I was when I graduated high school. Or 155lbs, so I can finally hit the "healthy" weight on the BMI chart. You know, 138lbs wouldn't be bad either...thats the weight I was in basic training. Any of those would be nice, but ultimately I just want to maintain the weight loss I have had and be phyically healthy. I would say I am in better physical shape now than I ever was in high school or basic training.
10. Running. Lets just say, I am not where I was. Last July I ran my first 10K. And then I didn't run again till two weeks ago. I started the C25K program over again, and I am running at a faster pace than I was last summer. I guess thats good. I wanted to run the St Patricks Day 5K this weekend, but my husband says I shouldn't because of my legs. He is right, so I won't. Maybe this summer I can run one though. I sure hope so!
