I bet you thought I forgot about this blog. Well, I didn't!
Life has been busy. In the past couple months I've told myself, "I'm just going to sit down and write a blog entry."
It never happened. I always ended up getting busy or just not wanting to do it because in my training I wasn't making that much progress.
With that said, I've come to realize I want to broaden the horizons of my blog. I'll still post about fitness on it every now and again. But, I don't want it to be the full purpose of my blog. I want to show the struggles of life, the epiphanies I seem to have about some things, and share advice and adventures I'm going to be going on.
My adventures won't be that much different from any average American, I'm sure. There are probably people out there who live much more exciting and luxurious lives than I do. But, we all take in our own experiences differently. We all want different things out of life.
So, I'll just simply use this blog for my own musings.
Anyway, getting away from all of that...I would like to reflect on the last couple months.
I can actually sum it up in one word. SNOW. Nothing but endless cold and snow.
I've never liked snow, and I especially hate the cold. This winter, however, has seemed more brutal than past ones. So, I've been stuck in a very tedious cycle that includes going to work, coming home, and doing any exercise and/or project inside.
I like to stay busy, but if I can't find anything stimulating to do, I'll usually exercise and then go straight to playing video games. I love video games. A lot of people say it's bad for you, just sitting there killing things. I find that whole "playing video games makes people more violent" theory silly. I don't want to kill people afterward any more than I did when I sat down. Of course, we all react to things differently, so I suppose someone may be effected by the violence of them...but I'm not one.
I've also been busy with getting everything around for my passport. In July I plan to travel to Switzerland for a week and stay with a foreign exchange student my sister had last year. I'm very excited for this opportunity. I've traveled a lot within the US, but I've never traveled outside the country. I'm extremely excited about seeing her and seeing Switzerland, but there's also a small part of me excited to be the foreigner for once in my life.
I've thought about getting a Rosetta Stone set and learning some German before I go, but I'm not sure I could learn enough between now and then to really help me out much. Especially since in Switzerland they speak a different form of German. But, who knows, I'm still on the fence about that investment.
In the meantime, I'll just focus on getting my passport and scheduling the flight while I impatiently wait for Spring to make it's appearance. At this point, it doesn't seem like it's ever going to be warm here again. Especially with the weather man predicting another snow storm this weekend. I really do think mother nature hates the Northern status.
And the snow storm has such bad timing, as I'm suppose to be in a fake beard competition this weekend. I'll post pictures of it later, but my theme is jungle princess. I'm not going to give away my designs, but I think the whole costume looks pretty cool. Here's hoping I at least place in the competition. Fingers crossed.
Just a little thought for the day. Have an awesome weekend!
