hiatus

I took nearly two months off from being good. It is really hard to be good from my birthday (mid October) to the end of the year. Why you may ask? Here is why:

Mid Oct. - my birthday
Oct. 31st - Halloween
Nov. 2? - Thanksgiving
Dec. 25 - Christmas

Now you may think that there is a lot of time in bewteen those days, but tradition fills those days with extra Halloween candy (I was actually better this year), pumpkin bread, pumpkin bread and more pumpkin bread, and all the yummy cookies that Christmas requires me to spend hours making in the kitchen (this year was 15 dozen).

Now do you see what my problem is?

Oh, and to top things all off, right after my birthday, we all got swine flu. It was pathtic.

Now that 2009 is closing, I am happy to say that I met my first goal! I actually weighed 193 on my 30th birthday. I was so excited!

Unfortunately, because I stopped exercising regularly, I gained back 2 pounds by the time we left for our Christmas vacation. I have a new goal in mind and tomorrow is a new day. We shall see how I do in 2010!