Today Is the First Day of the Rest of My Life

Well, wouldn't that be depressing? To consider that today is the first day I started living? What would become of the previous 43 years and 3 months? Would all those experiences be flushed? I certainly wouldn't be the person I am today without those experiences, good, bad and ugly so I chose to keep them. I'm not sentenced to succumb to the negativity rather to learn and make my tomorrow more positive.


Sometimes that's hard...especially when the alarm clock goes off and I find myself wanting to throw it across the room so I can get back into bed. I try so hard not to think about the gym as I pull on my gym clothes and hope those thoughts of getting back into bed don't get the best of me. Lucky for me (sometime maybe not so lucky), I have a husband who is a gung-ho fitness enthusiast who won't let me get back into bed...he guilts me into those gym clothes. Once at the gym, I'm fine...already there, might as well do something productive.

I feel like I really accomplished something when its all said and done - back to the house to shower, fix my hair and make-up, get dressed and off to work I go. When I get to work, I look at the clock and it seems as though I've been up for hours, and the day has just begun. Its at this time when I decide that taking one moment at a time (or one task at a time) is the only way to get through the day. And, I remind myself that I get to pick my attitude, nobody picks it for me.


Did I mention I missed the gym this morning? I flew out of bed when the alarm went off, put on my gym clothes, looked at my husband who didn't get out of bed and promptly crawled right back into bed (yes donned in gym clothes-minus the shoes) and fell back asleep. Now, you ask, "Where was the guilt?" See, I'm much too considerate to "guilt" somebody sleeping peacefully...and I have no idea what happnened to him but I didn't want to wake him to ask either! My self-pep talks didn't work. I believe tomorrow they will (either that or my husband's guilt tactics). :)


After accomplishing that (making it to the gym), I suppose I'll be ready for about anything!