John and I barely made it to midnight on New Year’s. I’d like to blame it on the jetlag (we flew in late the day before), but more realistically, we’re just old farts. We were going to dig up our 07 resolutions (yes, he forced us to write them down) and see how we did, but someone lost them. Oh well, I think I met a lot of my goals so I’m feeling pretty good about 07. Well except for the year-end extra poundage (speaking of the fat dog). Yup, I think my body was prepping for hibernation or something. Got a little muffin top in time for the holidays. Oh well, reason enough for some new resolutions– healthier meals, more exercise, etc. I recently tried a cherry-glaze lamb chop recipe out of Cooking Light. Pretty good. I think the magazine holds promise.

From my parents’ home in Maryland, I shipped a few more of our things in storage. I brought home a dish set Johnny gave us for our wedding. I know, I’m usually not one for home decorating and such, but the plates are part of this guy’s (William Kimball?) animal collection. So they are a bunch of farm animals. Super cute. And they will work nicely when I have my game nights and parties (I’m such a wannabe socialite).

More importantly, I shipped our two road bikes. I know, seems totally ridiculous to ship bicycles across the country, but my god, bikes are pricey these days. Like $400 each! So I did all my online research and shipping was only $40/bike via FedEx Ground. Granted I spent half a day on this project, retrieving bike boxes, disassembling the bikes with great difficulty (even with the help of my gramps Yeb), boxing, packaging, transporting to FedEx, etc. Yes, it was exhausting but I’m psyched to get them. The packages are slated to arrive tomorrow. I was thinking to just take them to REI for assembly and tune-up, but knowing my cheap-ass self, I’ll probably end up doing it (in our living room)!