Happy 2026 Bee!!

Typed Jan 14th, hit Publish later on March 30th. 

It's a late post, but who cares? Not me. 

Happy New Year Bee! I heard a joke last week, "thank you for me 7 day trial of 2026, I'd like to cancel my subscription this isn't what I expected". 

So true. In just the last 13 days, 2 two kid exchanges/visits (Xmas and rescheled post MLK), LA started a 2 month rotation of hell at the VA, dad had flu and 3 seizures, and now I'm waiting to see if mom's hip is damaged after yesterday's fall. This is why I haven't typed much here - there' so much going on but no training. And this was a training blog. 

Slava and LA did a half marathon on turkey weekend, but that's not my training. 

As for me, I have a new "coach": ChatGPT. Once I started doing that on the daily, I quit journaling and blogging. I'm short on time, short on thinking, and short on more to say. 

More on me, I have my 2nd PT visit for my hip today. Right hip mostly, but will help the left. The eval revealed very tight right hip for external rotation, weak left leg, and weak core. Added together - flexor and lateral pain. I'm 99% on finishing daily PT. My long term goal is to get back to running. Some days I dream of long runs and races. Some days I don't even want to walk (the cold and dark has a lot to do with that too though). 

In addition to the hip, right wrist and left elbow to wrist need PT. Why do I keep putting it off? It hurts and burns. 

Further, the November botox wore off by xmas, and I'm reminded just how bad and noisy the twitch is. I have another dose in February. So that's OK. 

In December Coach and I laid out a "zero zero" plan of zero rice cakes, zero salt dumps, zero unmeasured cheese - those are successful for like a month now. Also zero standing while eating - and that's not zero as of yet. I'm supposed to have a quiet time the last 2-3 mins of the commute, immediately walk the dog, return to my closet to change and clean up, then find 10 minutes of transition time, and use that time to dump the hurry and stress and not go into Moria hunched and hurried. GFP says I live on "being busy" and being unable to have quiet idle time. So correct. Yes, I still have these goals, years later. 

I'm 50 years old, and I'm still fighting these goals. What prompted me to come back today, besides just being overdue for my posts? As I'm waiting for mom to get her hip imaged, I'm realizing that LA is right and I certainly need to travel and experience NOW before we lose the chance to do so. Not only experience NOW, but CHANGE NOW. Do I want to wait until retirement? Do I want to lose the chance? Do I want to die with these issues?  

No. But I've said all this before. Here I am, again. 
I made my usual list of goals for the year, some already accomplished.

Next day. Mom's hip is OK? Did I improve on my goals last night? eh....why am I here typing this?