January 2019

January was a sort of unusual month for me. E left for Japan on Jan 2 (and came back Feb 1), which is by far the longest we’ve been apart since the very early days of our relationship when he would occasionally go to Ireland for 5 weeks for his PhD work.  I decided that instead of being lonely and gloomy, that I would put aside my annoyance with my “friends” and see them while he was gone.  So the first weekend I went to see R and the second weekend I met up with L (my gradschool friends).  The third weekend, I met up with my old friend SO in Galveston for a long weekend.  Then the final weekend in January was my work’s biannual conference in Tulsa.  So I have been both unusually social, and unusually quiet/alone. 

 

Hanging out with SO really impressed upon me how much I managed to improve my health in 2018.  The last two times I saw her, I could hardly walk for 15 minutes and my entire body was so achey and painful.  I was also depressed and unhappy and terribly lonely.  While I am hardly a paragon of physical or emotional health, I am so much happier and healthier than I was a year ago, and this give me hope that I can continue to improve. 

 

My goals for February:

 

8 workouts

Maintain weekly step goal even when it is too cold to go outside and walk

Create something already, fer crying out loud