Welcome March! Welcome Spring! And welcome back sanity!

My guess is that I am not the only one who goes a little bit insane in the winter. (Unless you live somewhere where it doesn’t get cold, and to you… bah.) The first signs of winter come each year and I get so excited, like this year will be different and I will be able to last without losing my mind. I am always proved wrong — b/c by January, when I realize I have not left my house in months, I am at the point where no one is safe from my wrath. (This year being worse w/the pregnancy hormones taking control).

March is here now, and I see the first day of spring in my sights. *sigh* It’s like my little piece of heaven.

So what does a winter-blues girl do when she sees spring coming?? Clean house!! And not just house-literally… but everything. I’m changing my business name, changing my services, starting new activites like yoga and tai chi, eating healthier, and also literally cleaning house.

I’m pretty excited by this year, since come fall I will have a new human depending on me. My little nugget baby should be here by August of this year (we find out gender in 3 weeks and will then retire the nugget name for an actual name).

I’ve decided that new years resolutions are for the birds, because anyone hit with the winter blues cannot handle making promises and changes and adding stress when they are still so bummed from the season… so I have decided (as of March 1st) that my new thing will be SPRING RESOLUTIONS. Much easier to deal with, b/c my attitude is better and the likelihood that I will actually follow through is much higher. (And I think the gym will not be so packed with those New Years Resolution people since they have all given up by now).

My 2010 Spring Resolutions:

• Get in shape. Starting pregnancy yoga (tonight for the first time) and resuming Tai Chi. Wearing pedometer to track steps daily. Actually playing the Wii Fit every week.
• Hydrate. Doesn’t sound hard, but I know I don’t consume nearly enough water, so that is my new thing. At least 48 oz per day.
• Create Me time. I don’t spend nearly enough time with me. Goals include reading books again, shooting photos again, and finally getting my own ipod with my own music on it.
• Teach my kids to cook. We eat out TOO much. My kids don’t appreciate food enough, and we don’t spend enough time together. So each week I am going to cook a meal with each one of my kids and actually let them do stuff instead of watch.

4 is a good number, so I am going to limit myself to those for now.

I’ll keep you posted on how it’s going… and hopefully I will report awesome things…

~V

However (!!) for the past two weeks I have been the only adult in my house… and my kids have been with their father 1/2 the time, leaving me to wander aimless around the house. There were times, admittedly, that I talked to inanimate objects. And now that my isolation is coming to a close, I’ve realized one major thing – if I don’t get stuff out of my head, it stays there, taking up space.

It’s during those two weeks that I spent a lot of time online reading other peoples blogs. Most of them were clients or prospects. Some of the blogs were business-y, some were more personal – but all had that common feature of allowing the writer to brain dump. Which lead me to the realization – I need to blog for sanity.

So here I am again, on my blog that has not been touched since March (!!!) and I am going to make my attempt at brain dumping here rather then keeping it in my head to stir around and keep me awake.

I don’t have a subject in particular.

I doubt I have an audience (although if you are reading this – hi!)

I’m not looking to profit.

I’m not trying to change the world.

I can’t promise you will have a revelation after reading one of my posts.

What I can promise is that I am going to be writing about stuff. Sometimes frequently.  Sometimes not.

So…. that’s that.

-Until Next Time….