When God closes one door, he opens another

I like to think of my life in phases. I talk about this a lot. It helps me try
to embrace what I am doing at that time, and not constantly think about what
comes next. I used to have REALLY bad anxiety. It caused me a lot of mental
anguish, and I have taught myself how to give it up.

I used
to always long for what was next in life, and not be happy with the current
situation I was in. I still have that problem now, but I force myself to work
through it instead of acting on it. Remember that time I joined the army? I'm
happy I did it though. Basically, I wish I could still do such dramatic things
now in my life but it probably wouldn't be such a good idea.


This weekend was the end of a certain phase in
my life, and the start of a new one. This past thursday was Thanksgiving and my
family likes to celebrate the hell out of it. I had 3 Thanksgivings, a bowling
pizza party, 1 kids birthday party, and 2 baby showers. Plus the turkey trot,
and all the driving and eration those take. And Corbin got to see Santa, it was
so sweet. So needless to say that life has been hectic. We are finally settling
in for the weekend and ready to get back to the day to day of the work week. We
also put up Christmas tree. We bought a fake tree the day after Christmas a few
years ago, I miss the aspect and smell of a real tree.


Tomorrow I will start marathon training for marathon #2. Or what I would like to refer to as MT2. I ran my first marathon I had horrible knee pain from mile 16 day through the day of the marathon. I ended up having to walk for 2 miles of the race, limp through it actually, and it took my time to 5:31. I was extrememly dissapointed in myself and now I would like to try again. MT2 will take place on April 1 in athens ohio. There is an old rails to trails path, which I am pretty excited about cause I like to run in a straight life for a long time. Maybe why I run on the path more then on the streets.

If I could have it my way I would run 5 marathons next year. If I can make it through the first one with no serious knee pain then I know I can commit to keeping it up. But I gotta make it through number one first.

Just keep swimming