Owning 2013 ... So Far

It's Day 4 of the new year and I am totally owning my New Year's Resolutions!!  Ask me again in a week, but for now my whole world is looking up!!

Even though I spent part of New Year's Eve babysitting the Munchkins (and having a blast doing it), I ended 2012 kinda bummed out.  Before Christmas I had asked God for a sign.  Well ... I got His sign, but it wasn't the answer for which I'd been hoping.  I allowed the emotions to run their course and by the time I awoke on New Year's Day, I ... had ... a ... plan.

My plan, to find new ways to do things that I used to enjoy before RSD took over my body.  Including; but not limited to, spending time in the snowy mountains and traveling.  Well guess what?!?!  Plans have already been made for both ... and that's just within the next month!!

Sometime in the next couple weeks, I will be traveling to see the Bombshell and the Munchkins in Kansas for a couple days so that I can go to my sister's school to promote Crazy Sock Day 3, which just happens to be in 20 days!!  Whether I fly or drive remains to be determined, but awareness must be raised, the Smiling Warrior must have support, and there must be a competition between the Bombshell's elementary school and Houdini's charter school (because in our family, I like to create a little healthy competition).

For the weekend after my 44th birthday, also known as Super Bowl Weekend, my ColoAngel has arranged a place for us to stay so that we can go tubing, in the snow, up by Grand Lake, CO ... and then there's the Super Bowl!!  Just the mountains, the snow, football, and me!!  (and a few carefully chosen bodyguards that I feel comfortable enough to scream out in pain around ... just in case.)  Should I end up hurting a ton, the greatest painkiller would be if the Denver Broncos make it to that Super Bowl and win one for the gimp!!!

And finally, I decided that I would play Suck It Up and Deal by coaching club volleyball for the remainder of the winter and spring.  I have been toying with this idea for about 2 months, but I just couldn't bring myself to commit.  Yesterday I signed on the dotted line and committed ... now to pass the background check!!  HA!!  (It's all good, I'm pretty sure I'll pass.)

I have faith that I will stick to my resolutions of 2013.  I have faith that, even though I feel hope slipping away, I will cling to what I do have instead of dwelling on what I don't.  Painbedamned, I'm off to a great start!!  HAPPY 2013, Y'ALL!!!!!!