Ok. There you have it. We are a week into the year 2012 and what do we have? Nothing much. It sure feels just like it did a mere two weeks ago when were we still writing "2011" on our checks. What's changed?
Nothing but the progression of time has changed, my dear friends. I hate to break it to you, but there is no magic bullet or switch that you can flip that will change things. It is much like a long drive across this great country of ours. Simply moving from Washington State to Oregon changes nothing. Oh yes, there is a sign that says, "Welcome to Oregon," but the terrain is EXACTLY the same. You can expect some great difference, but there isn't one. Trust me.
This is the same thing that happens after one day of eating well and exercising. I assure you, I have studied this to a great extent. In my feeble, simple mind at the day's end I consider all that calorie counting and all that work, and figure I should have lost AT LEAST 15 pounds. But again, the terrain is the same and not much has changed. I have not become that 25 year old-never-had-a-child, hard body.... I am not shaped into a body building figure. I am simply the same person I was a the onset of the day. Except I worked out and ate well. Dag-Nab-it, if this thing is gonna take some REAL effort and some REAL change, it is gonna take some REAL time!!!
So, when can we expect 2012 to look differently than 2011? I figure the real change will present itself somewhere between September 2012 and January 2013. OMG!!! Did I just bring 2013 into play....??? Well, yes, I did. And by 2013, 2011 will seem vastly changed.
And maybe I will appear to have lost about 30 pounds and look more fit. Good Lord, I can't wait for 2013 to get here!!
xoxo
Kies
haha! no don't start talking about 2013 already!! I cannot think that far ahead yet... but then again, i must... plan for the future that is. that is part of our calling, correct? and yet here i am, with our lease nearly void, looking at boxes that still haven't been unpacked, and strangely disheartened and happy about those boxes... and rambling here i know but i think it somehow connects with your idea that time just keeps moving along and a new year isn't really that different... i haven't changed drastically either, but lordy, my life has changed... and stayed the same.... husband, no school, sorta job, love, you, family, food, health.... it just keeps truggin along.
ReplyDeleteyou are so funny, bri.... yep! it just keeps movin' forward! and SOOO excited for your next adventure! and i agree with you about how much has changed---but then again it hasn't. you are right!
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