(Yes, I know I haven’t blogged about Thanksgiving in Utah, Christmas, Grandma’s passing and funeral, my birthday, etc. But here’s a post, so that’s something, right?)

A blogging friend says she’ll make resolutions after she’s already accomplished them, and I really like that idea. At any rate, here I am a month into the year and ready to admit to what I’m working on. I haven’t quit yet!

On the first of the year, I could barely do a push up. Now my goal is to keep it up: 30 each of push ups, sit ups, jumping jacks, and one leg hops (30 for each leg) both morning and evening. Yesterday morning, I spent about 30 minutes doing exercises and these exercises and I was sweating! My muscles, from the muscles in my shoulders to my glutes to my calves were burning and it felt so good.

My motivation comes from an outside source. I signed up for an exercise class through the park district. It’s a karate class. See, I figured yoga or kickboxing is just a once a week thing: but karate is something I have to be in shape in order to excel at. And to excel, there are stages to proceed through. My class is the 8 years old through adults class. There is a middle aged man and his 20-something son, and the other five boys are between eight and 12.  It’s embarrassing to be the weakest person there.

So anyway, my muscles are burning these days and it feels great!

I’ll let you know what my other goals are once I’ve accomplished something…