Saturday, January 2, 2010

Most Wonderful Time of the Year

It's been about 2 weeks since my last post. The holidays were fantastic in so may ways. The kids had an unbelievable time and Santa was way too generous as usual. Katie and I are still assembling, constructing and organizing all of the kid's presents (e.g. I'm about 8 hours into putting together the Lego Death Star and I'm still only 75% done). As a parent, watching Christmas through the eyes of a 5 and 1 year old is a level of fun that really can't be described. New Years was quiet, but fun as well.

Personally, it was a "running" Christmas for me related to my gifts, which included the following:

Obviously, people were listening to my subtle gift hints (thank you, dear). I also took it upon myself to buy one more item for the house which Katie and I can both take advantage of. I used it for the first time today and ended up going roughly 4.5 miles. I forgot how different it is running on a treadmill vs. outside, but it will sure come in handy when we're getting dumped on (like we are now) or when I'm home alone with the kids. Johnny saw me on it for the first time today, and he didn't quite know what to make of it, except to say, "Whoa". Audrey just thinks it's one more thing she can climb on that she knows she's not supposed to touch.

Due to the fact that I've been on vacation since Christmas Eve, I have been able to get myself into a decent routine over the last week or so. Hopefully, things at work will be more manageable come Monday and I won't have too many issues sticking with the training plan. I've been trying to live somewhere between the "beginner" and "intermediate" plans Jack provided and, so far so good. I was planning to do 10-11 today, but with the snow and wind, that didn't really work out. I plan to hit the treadmill again tomorrow so that I can at least end up with 9-10 for the weekend in total. Not ideal, but given the weather, it's the best I can do. The only bad part is that it's going to make the 12 or so that I want to do next Saturday a little tougher.

On the fundraising front, people continue to be extremely generous and donations are still coming in almost daily, as I'm closing in on $3,000. To those that have already contributed, I can't thank you enough. It really means a lot to me.

It was a crazy 2009 in so many ways and I can already tell that 2010 is going to be a terrific year for all of us.

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