Throughout my life I have tried, on and off, to keep a journal. My mom keeps a five-year diary and has for as long as I can remember. On any given date, she can look back through her diaries to see what she did on that day in years past. It's pretty cool. She doesn't write much - basically just her activities for each day.
I want to keep more of a journal than that. I want to write down my observations and feelings; I want to vent my frustrations and articulate my aspirations; I want to discover my motivations and overcome my shortcomings. Perhaps my expectations are too high? In any event, I never seem to be able to keep it up. A week or two I can do, but after that it always seems to drop off. Maybe I'm too all or nothing and can't seem to pick it back up if I miss a day. This is a problem I tend to have in general. But maybe keeping a journal could help. Although that begs the question, no?
Anyway, I've been reading some blogs of friends of mine and was thinking that perhaps I should have a theme to my blog. For instance, one friend writes mostly stuff about Austin in his blog. And a woman I know writes about her experiences running and racing. Maybe if I narrow my focus, it would be easier to know what to write about. That was my intent when I first signed up for this thing. I figured it would be more likely that I kept it up if the scope of my blog were well-defined and relatively narrow. But when it came time to name my blog, I didn't want to restrict myself to one topic. After all, the purpose of keeping a journal - at least for me - at least ideally - is to learn more about myself. So, like I've done so many times before, I guess I'll just try again to see if I can write about whatever I feel like writing about and do it regularly. So there you go. Hello, it's me. That's a great Todd Rundgren song, by the way, in case you didn't know.
Hmmm... guess I'll say a bit more about today. Today is Tuesday, but it felt like Monday. I went out last night so I was wasted tired this morning when the alarm went off at 5:45 a.m.. Usually I run w/my running buddy on Mondays and Wednesdays, but yesterday I was in San Antonio for work, so we ran today instead. Just the 4.1 mile Town Lake loop, but it was tough. I'm still sore from the weekend - metric century on Sat. and hike followed by rowing followed by paddling on Sunday. Plus I ran Monday morning before I left for San Antonio so Otis (you'll hear lots about him - he's my yellow Lab pup) wouldn't be bouncing off the walls all day while I was gone. Anyway, the run was slow going, but it's always good to go.
See? I"m getting bored already. I don't really have anything to say. That's it - this will be a workout blog unless I have something else I want to say. That will be a good compromise between focused blogging to give me direction, but open journaling for those (rare) times when I have something worth writing.
Right now I need to go to Petco to buy more canned dog food since Paddington's new thing is that he won't eat his normal dry food unless I put something special in it. (You'll hear lots about Paddi too. He's my chocolate Lab and he'll be 12 on May 21). Anyway, I need to go to Petco, but Scrubs is on in a minute. I"ll go after that. And clean the house. I swear.
