Happy New Year!

One of my resolutions this year is to actually write in here. Why have a blog if I never post? I mean really. Why bother? So I decided to try something new and actually blog for a change. I don't have anything particular to write about, but I only have a half an hour until I already break my resolution, so prepare yourself for a lot of aimless rambling.

My other resolution is also 1 for 1. So far. I went down in the basement and walked on the treadmill. I know, I was going to start walking a long time ago, but never got around to it. I walked about 3 times and quit. I just don't know if I'll be able to keep doing it. We have a wood stove in the basement, and between the heat from the stove and walking long enough to work up a sweat (15 minutes, not anything to brag about) I ended up covered with my familiar little red bumps. The Man said there's a fan down there somewhere that we could set up to cool me down while I walk. Or I could just open the basement door or windows, or both, and cool down the basement that way, but that kind of defeats the purpose of having the wood stove in the first place. Maybe I should put the treadmill on the back deck.

The only thing I can think of to write about work is one night a week or so ago I kept feeling something tickle my leg. It irritated me and finally I shook my leg hard enough to make a roach-type bug come flying out my pants leg. I can't say for sure it was a roach because I didn't exactly get all up close and personal with it. I mean, I like bugs. June bugs, lady bugs, Daddy Long Legs, those little Rolly Polly bugs. I catch spiders, and even wasps inside and let them lose outside, and I love going outside after a heavy rain and picking up worms that wriggled onto the sidewalk or street and putting them back in the grass, but I draw the line when they invade my personal space. For a second I thought about squishing the bug. I mean, it was a bug, and it was trying to crawl up my leg. It's life was in my hand. But I just couldn't do it. I watched it scurry away and then went back to work.