RE: Ten Other Ways to Spend My Time

First order of business - sorry to the 2 people who read this for being MIA. Blogger and Facebook were one of like a trillion websites that were blocked at my office a couple of weeks ago. So, now I'm relegated to blogging and facebooking via iPhone during work hours (I am that addicted) or during my free time.

Speaking of free time...Time to write down some things I want to do. Maybe putting this out there will motivate me to start carving some of my free time spent socializing and watching wayyyy too much tv and dedicate just a smidgen of time to loftier pursuits.

These are in no particular order:

1. Learn Spanish

2. Take a writing class

3. Go to Europe (british isles first, then france, then italy)

4. Feel like I look sexy in a bikini

5. Make exercise a part of my weekly routine (and like it)

6. Dress better for work (and life)

7. Explore my neighborhood and find a couple of favorite spots for drinking a coffee and reading a book...maybe even make a new friend or two along the way that I didn't go to college with or work with

8. Make a better effort to visit friends and family outside of NYC

9. Start spending money more wisely so I can do 2, 3, 6, and 8

10. Start volunteering again

RE: Reflection and Renewal

So, some of my dear friends may remember two former blogs of mine which have recently completely disappeared from the blogosphere. It was an impulsive thing to do, but I'm glad I did it.

Between being newly married to a wonderful man; feeling the urge to become a better me, in ways superficial, spiritual, physical and professional; and being faced with opportunities and challenges to let go of past hurt and weakness and embrace the goodness of the present, I felt my former musings did not present the truth of my current self. I also felt they held the past in too public of a light, and while there is a time and a place for a fuller disclosure, perhaps those people I care most about do not appreciate not having a say in what is disclosed in my relations with them.

All that being said, I thought I could live without blogging. And then I turned to INCESSANTLY facebooking, which really provides more of an opportunity to tell the world about "me, me, me" in short, meaningless bursts, and less of an opportunity to learn about my experience and share those learnings with others. I partly hope this helps me wean myself from facebooking at least a little bit, and I partly hope that this serves to help me know myself in a more honest way and to document a young grown-up's life at the end of the beginning.

I'm not sure where this blog is going to go. I'm not sure if it will be regularly updated or meaningful in any way. I'm just giving it a shot.