Yeah, I know. Only 2 blog posts all of last year. But I've been really busy. We did a lot of travelling last year. Florida, Colorado, and a half dozen trips to Disneyland chewed up a lot of the free time we had and we still didn't travel as much as we would have liked to. Also, changed my exercise routine and started running in September of 2010 and started using the Fitness Center at work to do some weight training. I'm probably in the best physical fitness I've ever been in my life. I'm now running 4 miles at a pop in about 44 minutes, give or take. I don't know if I've become addicted to running but I have become addicted to timing my runs to see if I can do the next one a little quicker. Walking out the door to do it is the hardest part.
And gaming has been good and bad. My regular 4th edition Dungeons & Dragons game has been plugging away regularly with 1-2 games a month and has been a lot of fun. I would love to try running a 4th edition game but haven't found the right group yet. On the other hand, my 2nd edition Dungeons & Dragons game only managed 1 game all of last year. We did get together for a few hours in January already this year and we have a February game scheduled so this year already has more promise. I hope the momentum continues for this game. And I have to thank my wife for putting together a board game group with her friends from work. We started playing light board games once a month last Fall and it has really been a lot of fun. I have gotten some exposure to some new games and got to introduce some of my favorites to a new crowd. We haven't yet gotten into any of my deeper games, like Arkham Horror, but I'm hopeful we'll get to try some of them this year.
I went to my surgeons office on my 2 year anniversary of my weight loss surgery and I have officially lost 286 pounds. Was feeling a little bad that I hadn't lost more weight but my health is so good and my waist line is down to between 38-40. By contrast, I found a receipt in a book last night for some pants I ordered from Sears in 1991 that were size 48 so I'm 8-10" smaller than I was 20 years ago. Nothing to be disappointed in there. Just have to keep working at it.
And Elizabeth has started Kindergarten at Khalsa Montessori School. She seems to enjoy it most days though to is still more a social butterfly and a driven student. It takes a lot of effort to get her to concentrate on her works everyday. Amy pushes her to do 2 reading and 2 math works everyday before she does any arts or crafts. We're also working with her reading sight word books a home most nights. She's getting better and is on the cusp of starting to read on her own. Amy is anxious about her not reading yet but it will come. Again, we just have to keep plugging away at it until it finally clicks for her. She seems to enjoy math and everything else so no worries there.
Well, that's about it for now. It doesn't seem like much for being 9 months since my last post. I know I've missed stuff or could go into more details about our travelling or other stuff we did but it'll have to wait until next time.
Kelly Loucks took the Hardest Gary Gygax Quiz in the World and got 50%!
