In January…

• I ran 41 miles (on my way towards my goal of 366 miles in 2012)
• I spent 15 hours and 58 minutes exercising
• We cooked 18 meals at home
• I lost zero pounds.
• Todd ran 32.5 miles (wow, a category I actually beat him in!)
• Todd biked 271 miles
• Todd swam 10.33 miles
• We took 506 photos
• I read two books:  “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot, and “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins.
• I started listening to a different CD each day in my car.
• Movies watched:  You Again, Easy A, My Best Friend’s Wedding.
• I journaled online daily at Oh Life 31 times.
• I journaled in my Moleskine daily planner 31 times.
• I finally finished the 2012 budget ($100 million) at work (after working on it for months) and officially submitted it.
• I stuck to my exercise plan.
• I started tracking calories at Daily Plate.
• I finished four weeks of Project Life in my album.
• I created two video tutorials.  One for printing and cutting digital elements with the Silhouette.  One for printing journaling onto 3x4 Project Life journal cards.
• We watched the Sugar Bowl at Anne and Gilbert’s house and had their awesome chili for dinner.  (But VA Tech lost.)
• We went to Phil’s BBQ with Dejah and Roby.
• We visited AJ and Meera and had cookies and tea.
• Sally came over for dinner.  I took some maternity photos of her and we showed her our Hawaii vacation photos.
• I had breakfast with my best friend Meera.
• I celebrated Chinese New Year by having lunch at Pearl with some work friends.
• We went to Smashburger with Pete and Cass and gave them their baby gifts.
• I ran over 5 miles for the first time since August 28, 2010.
• We snuggled with Noodle a lot.
• I found my new favorite sneakers for walking around, the New Balance 501.  So comfortable and love the retro look.
• We went to Wahini Kai for Hawaii shave ice THREE times.
• We went to Safari Park and saw lots of giraffes, birds, rhinos, gorillas, meerkats, and also the cheetah run.
• We went to Broadway San Diego at the Civic Theater to see “Cats”.
• We watched the Buckeyes lose in the Gator Bowl.
• I talked to my dad three times on the phone.
• I backed up my whole computer to my 2TB external HD twice.
• We survived the strong Santa Ana winds and the associated allergies.

January was a good month.  Bring on February!  :D