And what have you done?

I really hate that John Lennon Christmas song. "And so this is Christmas and what have you done? Another year over and a new one just begun." Makes me feel like I've accomplished nothing! As usual. But as Ben Davis reminds us, it's striving for perfection that makes us great.

I've been beating myself up a bit for still being a disorganized mess and for letting my running slip, but you know what? A year ago, I didn't even run. At all. A year ago, I didn't roller skate. A year ago, I was getting over a long illness. A year ago, I only had one niece. In the past year, I've found a love for roller derby, reconnected with some great friends and made new ones.

2011 has been a pretty good year.

For 2012, I recommit to this blog. I will try to get a handle on this organization business. I'll add more workouts to my week, starting with the roller derby workout challenge. I'll try not to neglect my husband and dogs (too much). And I'll try to clean up my eating. Oh yeah, and maybe find some time for writing.

Ready to lace up your skates?

Progress report: XBX

Day 3 of XBX. I'm on Chart One, Level 2. There's 4 charts and 48 levels. For my age group, the goal is Chart 3, Level 26.  Will I push past my goal? I don't know. But it would take me until mid-September to do it if I kept up with daily exercise.

Today, I had help from both dogs. It adds extra work. Chloe, the crazy lab mix, was sleeping peacefully. So I took my chance to work out undisturbed. Buster, the old guy, came wiggling over, gave me a couple of pokes while I was lying on the floor. That didn't get the expected response, so he poked the sleeping dog. She can go from dead sleep to full riot in a micro-second. So a dog rumble interrupted the sit-ups portion of the workout. Instead, I got to wave my arms and yell. Does that count?

I also got up at a decent time and made hot cereal for breakfast. Early rising and cooking don't mix. I put pepper in the cereal. Spicy. It took a bit for me to figure out why my hot cereal smelled like pepper, but I was able to put it together enough to scoop the pepper out and put lots of pumpkin pie spice in to mask it. I tried Sunny Boy cereal. It's like a kinder, gentler Red River cereal. And full of fibre.

My other challenge is to get to work earlier so I can leave earlier. Today, I managed to make breakfast, workout, walk the dogs, select a reasonably good-looking outfit and get to work early! Victory in our time.

However, I didn't pack lunch and ended up with repulsive egg salad sandwich from the caf at work. The bagel was stale and the toppings kept sliding off. I broke the pop ban too. Ah well. Can't win them all.