it’s a new year!

Big changes are coming. Last night Firefly worked her last night on third shift, and right now she’s packing her lunch and getting ready to go to bed so she can be up early for her first day on first. This is going to be a huge shift in our household, too. Other than a few months when we first started dating and a few weeks here and there she’s always been on third shift. There are some things I’m really looking forward to (hello, going to bed with my wife every night and not just on the weekends), and some things I’m not looking forward to as much (yeah, I’ll admit it, goodbye me time on weeknights) but overall I think it’ll be a really good thing for our family.

I’ve also got a lot of appointments scheduled this month. I went last Friday for the 11 vials worth of bloodwork in advance of our RE appointment to discuss my losses (I’d rather be discussing test results than what he’s going to test for and he agreed); I’m going tomorrow morning for an appointment with a podiatrist to have a bump looked at so that I can hopefully get it taken care of and walk without pain again (and maybe even start running eventually); and an appointment at the end of the month with a potential new family doctor. Don’t get me wrong, I love my current doc and have been going to her since I was a teen at least, and she’s family if ya know what I’m sayin’, but she’s also more than 15 minutes from my work and almost half an hour drive from our house, and in a completely different direction. Not fun when you’re sick. This new doc is near our house, could be on the way home from work for me depending on which way I go, and she’s also family.

I’m not much for resolutions, but I do have some goals for this year:

Take more photos. With my dSLR, with my old point and shoot, with my really old SLR, with my phone, it doesn’t matter. Just shoot more.

Get IN more photos. My son won’t care what I looked like or what I weighed, but he will care that he has photos of us when he’s older.

DO SOMETHING about how I feel about my body. I’m not happy in it. I haven’t been for a long time. I want (and need) to lose some weight and get back into some sort of shape. I started tracking my food intake again and got the myfitnesspal app for my iPhone. I’ve used Spark.People in the past, but decided to give this a go because I’ve heard some really positive things about it. So far so good. If you’re on there feel free to friend me–I’ll give you one guess for my username. I’m going to set my goal in steps. I want to lose 40-50 lbs eventually, but I’m starting off with a goal of 20. I like to be able to HIT my goals, it makes me feel better to have accomplished something and makes me feel more confident that I can hit the next one.

I also want to post here more. I like it, I miss it, and I want to do it. I got into a bad place but it felt really good in November to be posting every day, and while I don’t think that will happen (nor do I necessarily want it to) I’d like to make sure I’m here more often than I have been.

So, hello again. I hope you had a wonderful holiday season, and that your year has started off well. I hope to see much more of you this year.

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