40 - So what now?

I don't, as a rule, make new years resolutions. This year is a year nor some significance, (given that I have just hit the big Four-Oh) and I may make some exceptions.

This was supposed to be the year that I ran a marathon.

HA!

The combination of working for Starshmucks and now going to school has killed any time I've had for running and I have paid dearly for that in the form of an ever expanding ass. The added weight has gotten to the point that I think my knees would give way if I tried to run right now.

I have to lose weight.

And thats not in the New Years-resolution-that-I'm-going-to-ignore-any-way kind of way....

I am heavier than I have ever been and I an concerned for my health. After all it is not unheard of for people my age to keel over and die of a heart-attack.

So I don't have a plan of attack for this weight-loss thing other than I really need to do some exercise and avoid the snack machine at school and the skanky coffee time across the street.

I need to do well in school. I have been doing that so I am not to worried about that goal.

And aside from that my goals are all kind of spiritual/metaphysical

When I was a good little Pagan I had a teacher who was not exceptionally talented . The one useful thing she said to me was "Do not attribute to malice what can much more readily be explained by ignorance." (sorry Pete I gave you that one - not the other way around)

-I need to take that bit of advice more often. I will be much happier with the world for doing that.

I need to forgive more readily and let go of anger. Because really, the people who piss me off are really not worth the effort.

And (particularly for the next two years) I need to bone up on my Spanish.

Thats plenty.
Wish me luck.