Wrap It Up

Another year just hurtled by, full of cool stuff and awful stuff and boring stuff. Personally, it was an interesting year. My daughters are growing quickly; it's amazing that I've been a parent for more than a decade now. On the career front, my job took some weird and scary turns this year, but I'm still hanging on. I managed to drop 30 pounds from Jan. 1 to Dec. 15. I gained a little of it back in the last two weeks, but I'm going back to eating well starting tomorrow. I'm doing a fair amount of writing, most of it for free but some of it for pay, and my podcast is still a going concern. Somehow I got sucked back into coaching soccer again, which has been fun and exhausting at the same time. The schedule keeps filling up, which I suppose is better than just sitting around on my butt watching TV.

As for New Year's resolutions, I'm looking to keep the weight off and keep getting faster as a runner. As I mentioned earlier this week, I'm starting guitar lessons tomorrow and hope to become a half-decent player. I want to keep writing. And I want to keep working at being a better father.

I'm in my mid-40s now, which is also weird and scary, but I take comfort in the fact that I don't feel that old. And I'm ready for whatever life throws at me (within reason). Happy New Year!