New Year, New Me!

Well, not exactly- not yet, at least.  I’m still getting all my Christmas stuff put away- it’s hard to move on to the New Year when your whole house screams Christmas.  And I decorate a LOT, so un-decorating is a big job.  Exhibit A:

Yep, that’s my bathroom!  Or at least it was until today- I’m sure Santa was happy to get his head off my toilet.  If this is my bathroom, just imagine what the rest of my house looked like.  But it’s all- almost- put away now.  Here’s a question!  I packed away my Christmas face masks…

…and next year when I open this bin will I say “Ugh! Remember last year when we had to wear these ALL THE TIME???”  Or will I be pulling them out to wear again?  Only time will tell.

I’ve decided it’s too hard to set running goals for the year, not knowing what races will look like and also not knowing what my foot will feel like.  So I’ve decided to go month-by-month.  Here are my January goals, running and otherwise:

1. Continue to run slow, easy miles while actively rehabbing my foot, i.e. building back some strength with single leg exercises, and increasing mobility in my calf muscles.  Currently I’m running three days a week- I’d like to increase it to four.
2. Read four books.  In 2019 I set myself an ambitious goal to read 50 books.  I ended up falling short at 48, but it was still more than I would normally have read.  Last year I didn’t set any reading-related goals and only ended up reading 28 books- bleh!!!  I really enjoyed my year of reading in 2019, so I’m going to try and replicate that by reading four books a month (if I can sneak a couple more in there and get up to 50 for the year it would be extra-great!)
3. Get seven hours of sleep a night.  I know- that doesn’t sound like a very lofty goal, but I’ve been TERRIBLE about sleeping enough lately.  I love staying up late, although what I’ve been doing I couldn’t even say (obviously not reading). It got especially bad over the holiday break but now that the kids are starting school again, I have to go to bed earlier.
4. Work on this blog!  Obviously.  The combination of not running much, plus the distraction of the holidays meant that I really didn’t focus on this blog.  I mean, it’s supposed to be a running blog and I’m writing about Santa toilet seats and kittens.  Not that those things aren’t fun, but moving forward I’m going to put time and energy into creating more running-related posts.

On that subject…

Apparently I was running so fast I was just a blur!  Ha ha… definitely kidding on that one- I just took a blurry picture.  But I ran three miles and it felt great!  Onward to great things in January!

What do you guys think… will we still be wearing masks this time next year?  I hope not!!!