hotshot

so it seems like it would probably be a good idea to check in on how the old new year's resolutions are coming along. probably the reason i want to do this is because there is one i know i'm doing a good job on and i want recognition. check out my previous blog, "so this is the new year", for all the facts on my hopes and dreams for 2007.

run 1000 miles
i think i am doing great so far. i've been tracking my mileage like nobody's business, and things are going along quite nicely. running. who knew i would like it? but i do. how i remember those days at canyon park junior high and then bothell high school, when running two miles made me want to throw up, i spent approximately 75% of the time walking, and i never once got a PR. i was not in good shape. but very oblivious to that fact - i thought running was just not for me. well, think again hotshot. i've run 443.2 miles so far this year.

start wearing face lotion that contains sunscreen
i am AWESOME! 100% resolutions achieved. not only have i been wearing face lotion with sunscreen, i've also decided to take things to the next level and use body lotion with sunscreen. praise me. this is basically the reason why i wanted to check in on my resolutions. sunscreen is something i've always been an idiot about. but i realized - the sun hurts me. i am pale. i am never going to be tan. so why try? i should take care of myself.

pray more
and now the failures begin....i never did specify how i was going to do this, or how i would know if i had achieved this goal. but i think i've been trying to think about and connect with God more during the day, and i've been reflecting on things quite a bit. but am i praying enough for myself, brad, my friends, my family, the world, my future, that i will know God better? definitely not. i need to give more time to this because it really matters to me. i believe in it. i should act like it.

worry less
hmmm...again, kind of unquantifiable and therefore, who knows how i'm doing? i feel less stressed out sometimes. but i think that i'm still too uptight about things, too much in need of control over situations where i cannot or should not be in control, and too concerned with what people think and what i should be doing, rather than just being and living and going for things. sooooooo.

keep in better touch with friends
i've been much better at keeping in touch with my best friends. we are emailing a lot. we just had a friendship reuinion weekend. i fail at phone calls. i fail at keeping in touch with lots of my other good friends, my brother, my former d group girls. i'm glad i'm reevaluating these. i miss those people.

if you're reading this - what were your new year's resolutions? how are they going?

emmy is crying and has been for several minutes now. i better go see why.

zaftig

i am so tired. i wish i were a better napper. i am not good at taking naps on purpose, and when i just fall asleep on the couch or quelquechose comma ca, it never seems very satisfying because it was oh so unofficial. i had some of my favorite friends here visiting this weekend and it was really fun. last night we went to dinner at the safari grill in the davenport tower and told each other what we thought the best career for each one of us would be. i thought it was really fun, and i think it was also practical for me. BUT now i really do have to become a writer and/or open a center for overall nutrition and exercise help (is that the gist of it autumn? am i leaving something out?). it's nice when people you love and respect and who truly know you say what they think you would be good at because you know that a) they want you to be happy and fulfilled and b) they probably know what would make you feel that way. so i'm closing up the cookie shop. slash just baking cookies at home more often for my own enjoyment.

i'm about to go lie very still on the couch and finish digesting my cereal before i do my last pre-bloomsday long run. i do not feel up for it. but hopefully my good friend michael aussiello (sp?) will make me laugh and fill my mind with tidbits on gilmore girls and veronica mars via the weekly tv guide podcast. oh how i love podcasts. i will be so happy when project runway comes back and i can hear tim gunn tell me what things are inconceivable, zaftig, and worthy of being probed.

gotta get inside that poof!

i am the worst blogger in the world. i really like writing my thoughts, and i think about stuff i want to write about all the time, but i never feel like i have the chance to sit down and do it. i just feel like there's no TIME for things when you have a full time job. i'm always choosing between the things i like and only getting to do a few of them, while i spend hours and hours at work every week. aggravation. that's why i'm going to quit everything and open a business where i bake and sell cookies. all cookies, all the time.

i saw the movie hot fuzz today and it was so hilarious. i really, really liked it. the violence was sometimes extreme, but really, really funny. really, really. i'm not all that into violence as amusement generally speaking, but the most violent image in the movie made me laugh out loud. but violence aside, it was so great in other ways. sometimes when i go to see movies that i know have a lot of buzz with certain types of people, or when they're by writers/directors/actors i like, i feel some sort of responsibility to like the movie i'm watching. this could have been like that, since i love shaun of the dead and i wanted to like this movie. but absolutely no effort on my part was required for me to love it. and that's i think the best compliment i can give. that's my highest endorsement.

i gave emmy a bath today. i was hoping that a bath might alleviate some of the fur weirdness she has going on right now. she grew this long second coat of fur in the winter, which was very useful for her since it was freezing cold and she likes to be out in the snow a lot. but NOW she is going back to an overall shorter haired look...on her back and head only. TOP of her head. her neck, spine, chest, and back legs have this ridiculous long hair all over them, which we fondly refer to as her "poof". (gotta get inside that poof!) and the rest of her is shorthaired. she looks ridiculous and kind of wolf-like. i was hoping that in the bath any remaining long fur would magically fall out and she would be beautifully shorthaired and not shed another strand until next year. but she looks just as ridiculous as ever. the other day someone asked brad if he could "pet your wolf dog." it's the neck poof that prompts that sort of talk. but i still love her in all her weirdness.

soooooo i guess i have to be lame again and quit writing to go do some laundry. boo hiss.