The Great Disappearing Act!

I am having a seriously difficult time finding a moment to write in this blog...how was it that, before Christmas, I had the time to write every day, and now I'm lucky to write once or twice a month? Well, having no prep at the high school definitely affects that, and my level of fatigue as well and thus my ability to sit down and type without falling asleep on my keyboard...
I've been enjoying the odd patriotic moment since the Olympics began in Vancouver, and even purchased myself some official Olympic mittens. It's been nice having something to cheer about, and I can't help but wish I could be involved in something like the Olympics that brings so many people from so many different walks of life together for one cause.
That's why I've always wanted to be part of Doctors Without Borders, as a doctor obviously because that had been, for many years, my life's aspiration. I just wanted to be part of something bigger than me, than being here. Hmm...maybe I can still be part of it, just in a different way. One day.
Now I have something new to add to my ridiculously busy and complicated life...and that is exercise. I suck at it, I don't like it (although I'll read all the research and enjoy the idea of it), I don't do it. But that's why I weigh 180 lbs and have a muffin-top band of blubber protruding from over all my pants, and why few of my pants fit me anymore. And now I have to face all my friends from university, most of whom I haven't seen since 2006, since before I gained the weight. More than anything, however, I just need to get healthier and strong.
So, I've started a fitness group with my friend Lisa, and I've agreed to exercise. Every two weeks, we'll get together to motivate each other, and to "submit" our exercise successes (and/or failures) and body measurements for ALL to see. The true test will be tomorrow, when I may just have to get up at 5am to exercise, because there just doesn't seem to be any other time available what with 7:30 starts at work every day, and making dinner, and homework....and of course that means going to bed at 8/9pm every night if I'm ever to survive the day, and that takes away all my writing time.
BUT! It will all be worth it if only I can make a positive change. I have lots of time to write come summer, and maybe next year my schedule will be such that I can fit exercise in at more appropriate (!) times of the day.
Wish me luck...nose to the grindstone starts tomorrow. Oh exercise gurus of the world, give me strength to persist and succeed!