Resolutions – Killing Me Softly

Three things summarize this week/weekend for Zachary and I:  work, food, Breaking Bad.

I wish I could say that the first week of January was barrels o’ fun…but unfortunately Zach and I have both been consumed with work.  We have a lot of big projects going on at my place of employment [Browning and Winchester’s two-story booths among many others] and they are coming along nicely [just in time for them to ship out to SHOT Show in Las Vegas].

Custom acrylic light fixture for Browning’s booth

Custom Winchester desk

The Winchester booth almost completed…

These babies are all I think/dream/talk about these days.  I can’t wait until next week when we say goodbye, can return to my regular schedule, and can move on to some new projects.

However, we did manage to fit in a few exciting things into our free time:

Date night to see Jack Reacher and dinner at Market Street [the food I was referring to…]

A crazy late night run to Costa Vida/Nielson’s Frozen Custard [more food…] where I wore my hammer pants [I had the name Hammer Time in High School for a while], no make-up, and a gorgeous free Classic Helicopters hoodie.  In public.  That’s how many hours I worked and how much I cared.

I was being a fuddy duddy and didn’t want to go out Saturday night after all that had been going on – hence the Costa Vida encounter.  So instead, we stayed in and watched the first episodes of Breaking Bad.  How?  How in the world have we never watched this show until now?!  We are both hooked.  I blame it on our Apple TV, one of my Christmas gifts from Zach.  It makes watching stuff almost too easy.

 Lastly, another bomb.com meal up at Zach’s parents’ house for Sunday dinner.  [The the last straw: way too much food.]  
All this show-watching, junk-eating, computer-sitting-whilst-working has made my body and brain at little too soft.  The holiday season has totally killed me  >>>  flash forward to this morning at 4:45 am when I hit the gym hard core [one of my New Years resolutions] after taking a holiday sabbatical.  My lungs still ache from my puny run.  It made me think of an article I read recently about New Years Resolutions.  This article stated that they are always impractical and often get abandoned after the first two-six weeks of the year.  It suggested to make a list of things that you plan to do in the new year that are “uplifting, exciting, and good for the soul” rather than goals that feel impossible.  So I did this!  I am not giving up on my resolutions, just jotting some things down that are a little more feasible.  Besides, I feel like I can accomplish anything if I have a list.  It has 42 items on it, because I am a psycopath like that, but here is the first handful…
1.  Spend more time outside
2.  Eat breakfast for dinner
3.  Plan a vacation together [this is going to go hand-in-hand with travel somewhere new, hopefully]
4.  Write more letters – send less emails
5.  Organize
6.  Take a weekend trip
7.  Try a new restaurant
8.  Go horseback riding
9.  Get a couple’s massage
10.  Have a movie marathon
I have to do better than hammer pants.  That might be item #43 – no more pajamas in public…

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