Monday, January 4, 2010

It's the New Year, and a new decade to boot!!!

So this is really quite late in wishing a Merry Christmas and Happy New Years, but I really hope the holidays were great for you and your family.  We were extremely busy with moving back to Canada, getting settled into our house again (still hasn't happened- I have 4 suitcases still needing to be unpacked!), dealing with a small flood in our basement again (We totally Tim the tool man Taylor'd it and dealt with the flood relatively quickly and easily), spending Christmas with my family (we did Christmas with Joon's family in DC when everyone came for a visit (Dec 5-12), getting our dog back after spending 4.5 months with family, and just adjusting to life in Calgary again.

It has been a big change moving back home, a bigger one than I ever thought would be possible.  In 4 months, we made lifelong friends, travelled, and enjoyed life as an American.  I am proud to be Canadian and glad to be back, but I certainly miss being in DC.  It is truely a beautiful city with amazing things to offer!

Now that it's the new year and a new DECADE to boot, I have a few things that I am hoping to commit to for the new year...
  • Stop trying to control EVERYTHING around me... I have realized that after travelling to a completely new environment to live that I don't do well with change and become of a bit of an anxiety case.  I want to be more relaxed and not stress when things don't go exactly as I had planned...
  • Stop getting parking tickets... ridiculous I know, but the amount spent on paying my parking tickets last year could have bought two, count em TWO, LV Speedy's... le sigh.
  • Enjoy my husband... We had a great time in the states and we spent the last few months just being the two of us... now that we are home and back to our everyday life, I don't want to lose the connection that we had established... it's easy to get lost in the everyday.
  • And of course, the gym... my never ending struggle!  I had commit to this last year and really did well until DC.  The gym's in our area was less than desireable, and combined with a crappy apartment gym, endless sicknesses and then a slew of visitors and travel I have fallen off the wagon.  I have a few sessions with a personal trainer and hope that will be enough to kickstart my drive to get back in shape.
  • Blog a bit more regularly... I was on a kick for a while, and then totally fell off the wagon.  le sigh.
I hope the New Year and New decade will be good to you - I certainly have big plans in the works!!!

xo
L&J

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