For my birthday, I bought myself a Beginner Yoga Jumpstart package. The goal was to do 6 days of yoga a week. I ~almost made it. I ended up doing too many fun things and staying out too late on my birthday and missing a day; no regrets! I did morning and evening yoga the next day to make up for it.

I’m so behind the times, but I real like the idea of ‘practicing’ things. Yoga, writing, socializing. I tend to want to immediately excel at things, and while this can be a good thing – pushing me to push myself and work hard, it can also lend to me giving up on things I don’t seem to have a natural affinity for. So for now, I’m ‘practicing’.

It’s been a bit, I guess. I keep meaning to write but putting it off.

We’re spending our first night in our new house – pretty much the best Valentine’s Day gift ever.

It’s early, like 8pm, but we’re already in bed – going to watch some Netflix and crash. We’ll have to start getting up early so I can get to the office before traffic sucks.

I’m so grateful for this house. For my family and husband and everything.

I’m ready for spring and home improvement and lots of new adventure.

It’s the new year, and everyone is catching up on blogging, so I’ll just slip in the side-door to this party as well.

Last year, I met my goal of running 500 miles, even with 40 to go on Dec 22. Thanksgiving kind of kicked my butt, and I wasn’t sure I was going to make it, but I’m glad I did. That was really the only goal/resolution I had for the year, and I think it served me well. Something about committing to a (relative) lot of running equals a commitment to a lot of other things like sleeping enough and taking decent care of yourself.

Lately, all my energies are focused on trying to buy a house. As I type this, we’re waiting word on yet another offer (our fourth in as many weeks). Training for the upcoming Austin half-marathon I so eagerly registered for, now seems like a minor annoyance.

But life is like that. Ebbing and flowing and changing in the smallest and biggest ways. So I’ll just keep taking it as it comes and trying to stay sane. That’s a pretty good resolution, right?

It’s been a strange day. But I’m grateful for coworkers who get me, a husband that totally supports me, a nice apartment, legs and a body that let me run, and a brain that lets me workaround annoying code. And vodka, I’m totally grateful for vodka.

Yesterday was my birthday and our anniversary. I enjoy celebrating both of those events together, and to be honest, who do you know that could have resisted the ‘I want an entire day to celebrate you in my life’ line that my husband gave me 8 years ago?!

We celebrated by staying up late and sleeping in and doing our usual hanging out. I went for an 8 mile run – a mile for every year over 30, and a trail to grow on ;) We bypassed the fancy dinner at the last minute in favor of a tiny sushi and Korean dive, and I couldn’t be happier that we chose the thing that was more ‘us’

Posting about it all seems a little anemic, but I want to try to better record the passing of the time. It’s so fleeting and perfect.

I blog in my head fairly often, but it never seems to make it to the page. Twitter is the bane of blogging. At least for me. But I don’t post the same sort of things, so I need to make it more of a priority.

I’ve been working on a big project at work, which has been a little frustrating and stressful at times, but it’s rewarding and interesting and keeps me unbored.

My parents were here for a week and that was nice. I had to work more than I’d wanted, but we got some quality time together. I’m very lucky to be able to work from home when I need to.

Besides the usual Ikea, Whole Foods, and Chuy’s that we must hit up, Dad and I went around the lake with him on his bike while I ran – it was pretty awesome just sharing that with him. And we took mom up to see the pedestrian bridge and part of the trail as well. Mom and I had girl lunch time too <3 Since they left yesterday early, the mister and I cleaned up and then just enjoyed hanging out together - watching True Blood and laughing at the awfulness. Today we went to see the Avengers. We rarely make it to the movies, so it was a nice treat. Tomorrow's back to more normal schedule. I'm not ready, but it seems like I never really am and it all works out :)