last.

this is my last post of 2011 and my last post on this blog. next week, i'm going to start using this new one called somedaysarah.typepad.com. it's new and fresh and i'm really excited about it. just like 2012.

new years are great like that, aren't they? they're new. they're fresh. they're hopeful. they're almost magical. people make plans. they write down their resolutions and the things they want to change. they talk about how different things are going to be. in the new year.

i'm guilty of this too. i made my 2012 list a few days ago and, after i finished writing everything down, i looked it over and thought to myself, yeah. 2012 is going to be a good year. then i paused. because isn't that what i do and think every year? and it never quite works out as well as i think it will. why is that?

i was thinking about it the other day and you know what i realized is another word for january first, the new year?

sunday. it's just a sunday. we had one last week, and we're going to have one next week too. sure, this sunday is going to make everyone feel like they have a fresh start. a second chance. a new beginning. but the magic stops there. after that, it's up to us to decide what to do with it.

new years don't change things for you. you have to do that part on your own.

i'm going to try to keep that in mind as i start the new year.

back.

oh hi.

i've been gone for a little while. i don't really care to explain why i haven't blogged, so i'm not going to. but i will say that i am taking a break from the everyday blogging thing to sort some things out and create a new blog (that's not a blogger or a tumblr), which i will start using in january.

it's all very exciting, i know.

in the mean time, let me fill you in on some things:

1. i'm using this blog, my old blog, to post to while i'm in the process of creating the new one because i still want to post an occasional blog before january, but i don't see the point in keeping two bloggers when i don't plan to use either one of them in the near future. so i imported my posts and here i am.
2. to pick up where i left off, which seems like AGES ago, i did not run the thanksgiving day road race as i had planned to. i ended up getting sick and, while i was feeling better by thursday, getting up early to run five miles didn't seem like the best thing to do while still trying to recover.
3. the Christmas season officially began (in my book) the day after thanksgiving and i've been listening to Christmas music and watching cheesy hallmark movies like nobody's business.
4. i went to the 96.5 Christmas concert last thursday and had an absolute blast, even though it was more like a series of mini concerts and less like one big Christmas concert. (this may or may not get its own post, depending on how motivated i am to put one together.)
5. this past weekend, on saturday, we put up the Christmas tree and decorated it. such good times that night.
6. on sunday, my dad had this scary memory loss thing going on, so we spent most of the day in the emergency room. they kept him overnight and ran a ton of tests. he was released on monday night and they said it was transient global amnesia, which is what they thought it was, but they had to rule out everything else.
7. THANK YOU, JESUS.

that's pretty much all that's been going on. it's kept me quite busy, as you can imagine, so i haven't had much time to consider Christmas shopping, which is making me a little bit anxious because Christmas is LESS THAN THREE WEEKS AWAY.

why do i never start my shopping early?

–– s

yeah.

it has been brought to my attention that i am in fact running a 5 mile race, and not a 5 kilometer. i didn't really think it was a 5k, especially after i googled and found out that 5k is equal to 3 miles (that would be way too good to be true), but i didn't actually know how far it was and i was too lazy to look it up. and i feel like people are always calling it a 5k, so that's what i went with.

either way, i know i'm going to be one of those runners who has that "kill me now" looks on her face that the people sitting on the sidelines look at and think, "oh, poor girl. that's why i watch and don't run." now i'm just going to be that person for another two miles. and, really, what's another two when you're already running three, right?

you know, i used to be that person sitting on the sideline, watching the runners and compiling a mental list of all the reasons why i just watch and don't run. i even wrote a post last year about how to watch the thanksgiving day road race. i had pretty much mastered the art of watching. who knew i'd actually try running?

maybe this year's post will be called "how to run the thanksgiving day road race without looking like you're going to fall over and die in the middle of mile 3."

but, you know what? i'm just really hoping that i can look back on this experience and think, "remember my last thanksgiving in connecticut when i ran the road race?" because that would mean that i survived it and lived to tell the tale. and it would also mean that i have finally moved.

i'm also hoping that this little 5 mile run will jumpstart my motivation to have a somewhat regular workout schedule.

we'll see what happens.

–– s