My First Spin Class

Which happens to also be my first true experience with fixed gear (oops!).  Oops because I OWN a a fixed gear but haven't really yet ridden it.  Anyone want to buy it off me?  It's nice.  Anyhow, it was a little boring and a little intense, but I also sweated a hell of a lot and walking upstairs to my apartment was a little more noticeable than usual, so I guess it was also good.  

On an entirely different note:

Businesses I'm interested in, in the future:

Green Energy Sources.  My role?  Learning to be a business person and get into that business.  OBVIOUSLY, other smart people would do actual engineering of goods to be provided.  

Honey.  Bee keeping.  This may be a personal thing, if not a full fledged business.  I may see about investing in a box if not this year than the next.  I recall reading that one should order bees in February?  Cause they sell out.  So maybe 2009 is about learning how to do this, and 2010 is actually DOING it.

Life coaching.  Something between 'advice giver' and psychotherapist.'  Someone to help people (YOU! perhaps) recognize and move forward to the life you want to be living.  This is one of those things that, when I first heard about it, I thought, YES!, that sounds like something I'd like to do.  Assisting people with figuring out who they want to be, and inspiring them to do the work to get there.  

Concrete.  Eric suggested it.  Businesses owned by women would get get lots of contracts, so I'll keep it on the list.

Yea, so I'm loving my business classes.  YES, the texts are slightly boring to read but they're SO APPLICABLE that it's exciting.  It's like, OH! I want to write a strategic plan for my life!

 

French Cat Wine

In keeping with my theory that all French wine is good, no matter the price, I found another good one!  French Cat Chardonnay 2005, on sale at Trader Joe's for $4.99.  Yum!  (Yes, that's right, I'm drinking white wine.) 

Change one little thing at a time...I don't buy it

It seems to be an understood rule out there that one shouldn't try to makeover their life in one fell swoop.  Change one particular habit and after that becomes normal, change another.  But I think, go for the gusto.  Mix it up.  Why not?  Come up with a workable plan and implement it.  I started 2 of 3 business classes last Wednesday, joined the YMCA on Friday (and swam Friday, swam Sunday, Ran/did weights Monday, in a bit I'll leave to swim), and started Weight Watchers on Saturday (and I'm doing a *great* job of writing down everything I'm eating and preparing nutritious meals ahead of time--go me!) and now it's the following Tuesday and I feel awesome.  And a, "yes, *finally*, I'm moving in a direction I want to go."  I suppose it could happen that I fall on my face, but I don't anticipate such a future.  Yay!  I love getting unstuck!

Unstuck, Unstuck, Unstuck at last!

Seriously though, life is good.  Let me count the ways:

1) I started two of the three business classes I'm taking this semester.  And get this--I actually LIKE them and am excited about them.  If it had been a first date, I would definitely expect a second date in the near future (like, say, Monday) and I'd be thinking that there's real potential here for a long and prosperous relationship.  It's rather refreshing to be excited about something that seems practical and potentially useful.   

2)  Yesterday I joined the YMCA and went swimming.  Yes, swimming!  For the first time since Lake Michigan got too cold to swim in.  Today I will go and investigate the weight room and if lap swim is open, swim again.  It's also warm and sunny out though so...I may head out for a run instead.  Batavia triathlon is 142 days away!

3)  I bought a new faux leather purple bag that is AWESOME.  You know, I always think blue is my favorite color, but there's something about purple.  Purple can convey so much more *attitude* than blue ever seems to be able to pull off.

4)  I learned how to strum on the guitar!  Yes, I pushed past that plateau and, though I am far from where I desire to be with this most infuriating but lovely of instruments, I see a new light in this tunnel.  Thank you to all who have assisted me in this journey off this plateau.  Guitar is the first instrument I've played since clarinet that I have arrived at and departed from a plateau.  I'm growing!  Also, exciting news about guitar:  my guitar class has been asked to accompany the fiddle class at graduation!  For whatever reason, I find this awesome, like I'm/we're good enough to be useful. 

5)  I've decided that tomorrow I'm going to join Weight Watchers.  Seriously.  I mean, I'm serious about my New Years Resolutions.  (Be it resolved that I get HOT in 2009 is basically it.)  There's a meeting at 8:15 AM 3/4 of a mile from my house on Saturday mornings.  This seems like an appointment I can keep.

Now, I just need to straighten up my apartment, set up my bike trainer, and hit the books!  :)