this is me

Here's how my Thursday started: About 5 minutes before I was ready to walk out the door, one of my contacts decided to lodge itself in the far reaches of my eye. After much coaxing and some cursing, and the addition of some eye drops, it returned to its proper place. My eye was bright red at that point so I opted to wear my glasses today. As I walked out the door, one of the buttons on my new winter coat popped off. The one that goes across my chest. So I was left with a button around my neck, and two around the middle, creating a nice gap in an obvious spot. The train ahead of mine malfunctioned, offloaded, and caused a 15 minutes standstill, followed by single-tracking. It took twice as long to get to work as it should have. The bright spot in my morning? The barista at Firehook put a coffee clutch with a smiley face on it on my latte. The kindness of a stranger brought some redemption to an otherwise hideous start to my day.

i'm not feeling terribly creative at the moment. I started a post about my tendency to be a bit of a sap and tear up at things like commercials for Extreme Home Makeover, but couldn't flesh it out. But i'm thinking about writing, which is a step. The words will come.

I didn't make any New Year's resolutions this year, at least not at the traditional time. Sometime in the past week, however, I decided that I needed to sign up for my 2nd 5k, and found one for March 13th . Then I decided my goal for 2010 will be to run three 5k's. And I will do whatever I have to in order to stick to that goal. Have I made it to the gym since? No. But at least the determination is there, and that's a start. This blog (and that post specifically) made me decide that I want to blog regularly again. I tend to only blog when I travel, but the only writing I do these days is in email form, which is less than satisfying. The world certainly doesn't need another blogger, but I need an outlet, and so I will attempt to write a weekly post, no topic off-limits. I have been happier these last few months than at any point in my adult memory, and I hope these two resolutions will deepen that happiness. Here's to a new year.