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When the new year started, I made a promise to myself that I'd get my butt moving again. 

I had, toward the end of 2009, not been to the gym nearly as often as I'd wanted to and I wasn't eating as well as I should have been.  

So much had changed in my life between summer and the holidays.  I ended a long-term relationship, started seeing someone new, moved into a new house, and thew myself into the job I'd started last January.  It was overwhelming and the routine I'd been in of gym visits four times a week and watchful, healthy eating took a backseat to all of the changes.  

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With a new year come new ideas, new resolutions, new solutions to old problems, and of course new problems needing solutions.

Among the last is, once again, need for a full-time job. Cell phone sales were not high enough to keep me on until Christmas, so I am once again navigating the waters of unemployment and job-search.

For now, enough of that. The meme going around the Diabetes Online Community has been that of "spreading the word" -- both telling people with diabetes of the online resources available to us, and bringing our online activism out to the world in which we live, visit our doctors, purchase our food and medications, and educate our children. While most of us talk about outreach in terms of getting our real-life neighbors to hook up with our online resources, I see a different reality.

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Happy New Year Everyone!

Today is the first day of 2011, and as such, it is a day when many people are thinking about their New Year’s Resolutions. I’m one of those people.

There are many things on my list for 2011, from better diabetes management and losing weight to getting more involved in diabetes advocacy. As far as Blogabetes is concerned, I have but one goal, and it is to get my act together and try to write more often.

A lot of things have been going on in my life the last several months that have prevented me from being able to devote much time or energy to writing. Simply put, I couldn’t give what I didn’t have.

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Right now, there are a thousand things on my "to do" list. Everything from making Christmas returns to getting my life back on a routine. Just making the list settled some of my frustration with how my life is going at this stage. It's a new year and I'm ready to get back on track and get this life under control. I don't make resolutions so much as set goals because I tend to constantly be doing small pieces of whatever my resolution might be. My problem is relaxing my control or my routine and ending up with a bigger mess.

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So, it's been about five months since I last posted here on Blogabetes, and I'd like to start off by saying that I'm sorry for going MIA for so long.  At the beginning of the year, I wrote of my grand new year's resolution to send more time writing for this blog and, clearly, that just hasn't happened.

Now, I've never been the best at sticking to new year's resolutions, so the fact that this one has been a spectacular flop isn't really a shock to me.  Admittedly thought, it does annoy the fire out of me.  

Life has a tendency of getting in the way of our best laid plans and intentions sometimes and, unfortunately, that's what's happened in my case over the last several months.

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Tonight, I will be ringing in the New Year with Marvin. We still have no definite plans...maybe going to dinner...maybe going out to a pub with some of his college friends...maybe both. We're just spending it together, which honestly is more important than whatever plans we come up with at this point.

Last year, I made one of his favorite meals and we stayed in on New Year's Eve. The next day, I went to my dad's house for cabbage, ham, and black eyed peas with my family like I've done for the past several years. This year, I won't be making the four hour drive home for that. I wish that I was, but my family is in very different places this year.

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For the first time ever I've created a list of things I want to accomplish in a year. Not New Year's resolutions, though the list was created with the New Year in mind, and not lifestyle changes, though there are some behaviors I'd like to change that are on the list.

No, these are really a bona fide list of things I want to do in 2010 -- with a sprinkling of lifestyle adjustments.

I felt good about making the list. I felt good about writing down the things I want to do this year. I felt good about creating a plan for the things I want to do. For example, instead of just writing "Clean Garage" and then waiting until the 11th hour to do it so I can say I marked it off the list, I wrote "Clean Garage -- January." (And Go Me! for getting that done this weekend!)

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2010 is going to be a crazy year. It's my last semester here at college, which means that come May I will be a university graduate with a bachelor's degree in Sociology and a minor in Women's & Gender Studies and an emphasis in Health. After that, my life will be completely changed.

I'll be moving from the town I'm currently in...unsure where I'm going at the moment. I'll be settling into a career, most likely. I'll be taking on new responsibilities like car insurance and all my expenses. Everything is going to change.

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Not only am I in a strange bed in a place that has not been "home" for over eight years, I'm trying to deal with the financial, emotional, and logistical elements of our current situation. Rather than resting and staying asleep, my mind is trying to figure out how to move our office into our already-packed living room, plus adding additional book cases and filing cabinets, without sacrificing my ability to put up my sewing machine, keep my only means of transportation (bicycle) in the apartment, and find space for sentimental treasures, plus finding a way to monetize that which we cannot keep or store, so that we can finance the process.

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