Why restart your blog? Nobody reads blogs anymore, right?
Last year, after my wife’s Facebook account was hacked (and recovered – read about that here) we had two scary realizations:
- Facebook support is absolutely awful (unless you’re famous or an “influencer”).
- Her Facebook account is probably the best log of our family’s major life moments since our kids were born.
So this year, I wanted to publish some posts from my perspective and be able to easily download backups of everything just in case, God forbid, the site is hacked. (For nerds: this site is hosted by WPEngine which has been phenomenal so far.)
And yeah, maybe nobody will read this except me. That’s ok, I just enjoy writing!
New year’s resolutions and sicknesses
My wife and I ended 2023 on an extreme high and low. We took a long weekend trip to Arizona sans kids so we could have some date nights – and also so I could do some indoor skydiving (all my posts on this topic are tagged with iFly) coached by Nik at AXIS Flight School. It was amazing! Check this out:
On the way home, we talked about how 2023 was kind of a rough year, and set some goals for 2024:
- More patience with our parenting
- Get to a place of peace more quickly when things are going south
- Drop some weight and gain some muscle
Well, one day into 2024, I’m excited to say that #1 is going perfect (the kids are still at my parents’ place :-), but #2 is already ruined. After both of us had a bout with coughing, runny noses and fevers, we took a COVID test and (drumroll please)…
Yeah, so that was a fun thing to celebrate! However, the silver lining here is that COVID has thrown off both of our appetites, which means that the ‘rona has helped us start tackling goal #3! It’s amazing how healthy eating comes easy when you have no appetite whatsoever. Can’t taste or smell much.
Movie marathon
I’ll try to get some “formal” movie reviews posted, but here’s what I’ve watched in the last 24 hours of being couch-ridden
Food log
File this under “nobody cares!” but towards the end of the day I got some taste back. Here’s what my weird COVID appetite was able to handle:
- Mint hot cocoa from Caribou
- Bag of trail mix
- Bag of uncle Ben’s lime rice
- A Mountain Dew
- A mountain of water
- Chicken noodle soup
- 2 Ritz crackers
Not the way I want to start losing weight in the new year but…umm…I’ll take it!