New Year, New Me! Kinda.

Earlier this evening, my beloved spouse hollered at us that it was time to go to dinner.  As I mumbled a half-hearted "all right" and urged my little one -- no longer a tiny baby, but a four-year-old, a full-fledged PRESCHOOLER for heaven's sake! -- into the dining room, I found myself struck with inspiration.

The blog!  I'll go back to the blog!  Even though blogs are so 2006, I'll go back to it, and I'll resurrect it with riveting tales of my adventures!

Oh, the enthusiasm that poured forth onto paper, all of my ideas and thoughts and scribbles and head shakings rendered into ink on the back of a watercolor pad!  It was joyous!

Then fear reared its lovely, lovely head again.  

That's all right, though.  My most popular post has 25 viewers.  That's almost a classroom full of students, and a classroom of students is a totally manageable audience!  Here's some of what I'm looking forward to sharing with all of you in my posts this year:

• My mother-in-law got me the most amazing socks for Christmas, but the tags on them were written in a language I do not recognize, possibly of East Asian origin, and I threw away the tags.  How can I tell everyone where to get these socks if I don't know anything else about them?  Well, as you all know from my overuse of Dr. Google, Secret Agent Google, Inspector Google, Google, LICSW, and His Holiness the Dalai Google, I have mad research skills and I WILL get to the bottom of this!
• I just got a box of art stuff from Sketchbox due to an amusing set of circumstances involving the holiday season, shipping, and my forgetfulness.  Is it awesome, or just meh?  I'll tell you all about it!
• Come and laugh along as I tell you my tales of physical prowess!  I promise, it will be fun.  Ever watched a middle-aged woman learn Parkour from the beginning?  Well, at the very least, you will get to read about it.  And by "beginning," I mean, I currently bench about 20 pounds.  As a special bonus, hear about how packing a set of double-D cups and a post-preggo belly impacts the journey (literally and figuratively).
• There will be more Feats of Strength, including my journey toward running a 5K in under 30 minutes, and moving on from there to my first 10K.  Will I be able to complete it without overtraining (from the first time I trained), or without acquiring shin splints that may turn to stress fractures (from the second time I trained)?  It's anyone's guess.
• Speaking of Feats of Strength, my sister has mentioned that she will host our first annual Festivus this year.  THAT will be a story for the books.
• Find out whether or not my experiments in winter sowing will be successful, and if I will uncover the Holy Grail of perpetual produce production.
• How NOT to clean the ashes out of your pellet stove.

Stay tuned!