What I'm doing now
February/March 2025
I ended January flying pretty high, then got sick three times. Something flu-like, something flu-like, then I think food poisoning? Then a cold?
While I was battling that stuff, I also was trying to train for the marathon. That was a battle for awhile but I kept at it and I’m starting to feel like a real runner again. Pace is getting quicker and apart from a bit of nagging pain around my left foot I’ve been feeling really good.
I launched a site with the day job, just as a crisis in my personal life popped up. So most of my extra hours in March went to that, and a lot of the things I said I wanted to do in January fell by the wayside. So it goes. I’ve slowly been getting back to normal as that passed.
Winter 2025
I have returned from the holiday break and now, with a couple of weeks of relative peace, quiet, and stability, I’m able to get back into a bit of a routine. This is being meshed with a little bit of distance from social media, a desire to read more books than tweets and articles, a desire to actually start writing again, and wanting to be more of a planner, at least with money and homestead-y things.
That sounds more like a New Years resolution than I’d prefer, but there you go.
I’m looking to drop the holiday weight and then push forward on the next phase of weight loss. I signed up for the Pittsburgh Marathon and am happily on a training plan.
It’s been cold outside, which makes it a good time to do inside things (unless some snow gets on the driveway, or the chickens need fed). I’m pretty messy around the house, in large part because a bunch of stuff I want to do piles up and I don’t deal with any of it, so I’m actually trying to get on top of things before the weather gets nice and I’ll want to be outside all the time.