So the new year is here.

Looks pretty much like 2006 from here. I guess you’re supposed to make a new year’s resolution to improve your life or be a better person. On New Year’s Eve I made the kids drink a toast with me. They had sparkling cider and I made the toast. Not real toast. I just told them that the new year is an opportunity to look back 12 months and look forward 12 months – in that order. That we all need to look back at where we’ve been and make sure we’re going in the right direction for the next 12 months.

They laughed and couldn’t keep from drinking the juice throughout the toast and are, over all, rotten little toasters. They need some practice.

In any case, I see the new year stretching out in front of me and mostly liking the opportunities. I need to lose some weight this year. I did this a couple of years ago and this blog turned in to almost a diet journal. I don’t plan on boring you to tears with the details of my regimen but I do intend to find some time when I can work out.

I can cut the calories just fine. I don’t really mind eating less – but it’s the exercise that is so hard to find the time for. The benefits of combining exercise and diet are too many to be ignored. To get the same benefit from JUST dieting I think I would have to drop down to subsistence eating. And that would be pretty painful. Plus, it would help other aspects of my health.

But where do I get the time? Not first thing in the morning. I get up at 6am already and I can’t imagine getting up any earlier than that. Not right now. I used to go at around 10am. There’s a gym not far from here; a couple of blocks. Maybe I can start doing that again. It would be like cutting out of here for 90 minutes or so. That’s kind of a long time.

Maybe I start staying until 5pm with the exercising in the middle of the morning.

See? This is just what I wanted to avoid. I don’t want to bore you with the indecision over details that plagues my life.

On Monday we took the family to lasertag. It was fun! When we go, even Gracie gets in to it. She’s too small to wear the vest with all the sensors so me or Liz wear that while she gets to carry the gun. Benjamin won a game, too! There were so many teenagers there that I thought that was a pretty good accomplishment! The best I did was sixth place. When it was me AND Grace I got 25th place (out of 35 or so).

Other than that we did some chores and loafed. Liz worked pretty hard on some stuff, but it was mostly cleaning grout and whatnot.

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