Case in point: I decided that I was going to blog more.  I picked this great domain name to chronicle my efforts training for the Danskin triathlon in Webster, MA.  I was also going to just write about the stuff going on in my life in general  and my efforts to improve so many things in my life that I have been lazy or slacking on.  Maybe someone would read it, maybe not.  It was really just for myself.

Over two years ago.

It wasn’t all entirely my fault that I never got it off the ground.  Not long after I got the domain and set up the site on Wordpress.com, I got sick.  In March 2007, I had a gallstone attack, and spent a couple months jaundiced and getting blood drawn and having outpatient procedures.  By the time my gall bladder finally came out, it was Memorial Day weekend and by the time I was fully recovered from that, I had maybe a month until the race.  To be honest, though, I was pretty far behind in my training to start with.  In mid-March, before I got sick, I was signed up for adult swimming lessons at the gym.  I had been trying to train for the swimming on my own, and it had just been too long since I’d done any swimming.  Then, the day before the first class, they called and said it would be cancelled because I was the only one who’d signed up.  So there I was, 4.5 months until I was supposed to be doing a sprint distance triathlon, and I couldn’t do the swim distance at all and could do only about half of the bike distance.  At least I could jog/walk the full run distance!  Secretly, I was pretty relieved that I got sick and it gave me an excuse to bail out.

Hopefully, I’ll be a bit better about keeping things updated.  I’ve procrastinated and procrastinated over starting this up because I can’t find the perfect theme.  What a stupid reason!  My whole life is like that, though.  I end up not doing tons of stuff I should be, because it’s not perfect right away.  I start dieting, but then I quit because I don’t lose weight fast.  I start working out, but I get discouraged because I can’t run like I used to, and I quit.  I start cleaning parts of the house, but I get overwhelmed by the all the mess and give up.

I can’t keep living my life like this, though.  I’m 33 now and it’s really time to get my life in order.