simply put - too long since I was last here

it's hard to believe i haven't posted since May 2013.  wow.....

i hope that this is going to change with my new goal to focus on me and make me the best me possible so i can be the best me for everyone else 

i put together what you could call a vision board.  a fun cut and paste activity where i chose images to represent what i want to achieve this year.  a different take on resolutions.  i made a collage of these goals and it now hangs on the wall beside my bed.  i look at it every morning and it reminds me daily to put those things first in life.

of course it includes the typical

eating right

exercising 

budgeting

but more important than those there are certain aspects of those that i have captured in my goals...


!!! like using my fitbit and my fitness pal all the time now

!!! like getting my ankle back into running form

!!! like saving money for goals like attending a family wedding in july or going away for christmas

and lastly my one and only specific goal ....

!!! signing up for a duathlon in september which includes a 5k run followed by a 20k ride followed by a 2.5k run

the last one really depends on my ankle but september is a long ways off

 

so what else is on this list?  funny enough it relates back to one of my first blogs where i said how much i enjoy reading, writing, sewing and photography.  so i am filling my time with reading a lot lately and actually something i never thought i would enjoy is crocheting.  took a lot of youtube videos over christmas but i taught myself how to crochet.  so now as i sit at night and unwind from the day i have my book or my crochet hook and yarn in my hand.  i am crocheting baby beanies for the hospital.  as for the reading i have read 3 books in a great series so far and just started book 4 ... oh jeffrey archer how i love thee

my writing has a couple goals are more and i haven't tackled many yet but here i am on here so that's a start and it's only february

am joining a writers group this month and while i am completely nervous i am really excited as well. the writing has been slow to start as i am tackling 2 of my last 3 municipal courses as well right now so while i may not be writing what i want to write i am writing papers every 2 weeks until april. municipal contract law and municipal public sector accounting regulations are not my choice to write but i still am.

to kick off my "real writing" i am attending a writer's conference in april with my mom and aunt. i am so proud of my aunt who is following her dream and writing books.  she now has 2 published and is active in a writing community.  i am very excited for her and to go to this event in ottawa


family and friends are important to me and over the years i have truly learned the meaning of the quote here.............

friends come and go from your life and some are part of your life only for certain periods of time or i think for certain reasons but there are some friends you make over time that you just realize are simply real friends.  it doesn't matter if you are having a bad day or if you have a problem with something, they are there.  doesn't matter if you have a problem with them and you tell them what you are thinking or how you are feeling, they are still there.  doesn't matter if you are years apart or if you don't talk every day, they are still there.  and you are there for them regardless.  i think my circle of real friends in my life know who they are and i hope i am as good a friend to them as they are to me

and as for family.... in march i am off to see my brother who i haven't seen since my grandpa's celebration of life.  how does two years go by and you not see your brother?  it has been so hard with him out there.  i hate talking on the phone - never been a phone type of person, much rather see someone in person but it is not always easy with a few provinces between us.  i am so excited to see him and my sister in law, and my two nieces and nephew. 

while i didn't list it there i also have travel in my mind....  going west will be part of that and i plan to get away to tofino for a couple days while i am out there. then as i mentioned, a family wedding in new hampshire in july and then who knows...  maybe some tropical beach in the winter with the boys.

i will say that i won't let time slip away from me and this blog like i just did....  

~ simply me, on a new path