Thursday: News Year's Resolutions

Since the New Year is starting tomorrow (with a 6 mile run and champagne with my running group), I feel that I should address my New Year's resolutions. Since I am both making and writing about my New Year's resolutions, I feel like Bridget Jones. This, in turn, makes me feel that by listing my resolutions some great caper is about to ensue, wherein I will find a great love and lose him and then be forced to take a terrible job where I will have to slide down a fire pole and all of London will see my underwear. It is a great effort to remember that my life is not a novel by Helen Fielding, Jane Austen, or even a screenplay by Nora Ephron. Anyway,

Resolutions are as follows:

• Wake up at 6:00 AM every morning without fail even on Sundays.
• Go to bed at 9:30 or 10:00 PM every night to facilitate above.
• Make it through my one year Bible. I have tried before, and it is rather hard.

These might, in fact, be my first set of resolutions that I have ever formally set down in writing, so maybe that means I will be more likely to make in through them. We shall see.

In other news, I ran 4 miles today, and that is about it on the workout front. I received my heart rate monitor last night, and I paired it with my Gamin today. Disappointing, it seems that the reality of my calorie burning is more like 75 calories per mile as opposed to my estimated 95 calories a mile. My husband thinks that maybe I should do a VO2Max assessment, to make sure that the settings on my Garmin are specific to me, as opposed to the settings that are based on a person of my age, which is apparently how the Garmin gauges me.

Here is what I say to that: This watch was a Christmas gift, not a graduate level research project. I swear, there is only so much time in the day to devote to maximizing my workouts.

Also, I still have not signed up for Todd's January cycling class. Good grief. It is all too much.

I am, however, enjoying American Lion, and today I acquired a lovely new dress at Levy's. A great store in Nashville, that carries some quite fabulous clothes.