Monday, February 16, 2009
Hello, 2009!
It sure has been a long time since I last updated my blog, hasn't it? To be accurate, it has been 225 days and some change since I last updated my blog. I guess it is a good thing that I am unlike most other bloggers who tried to bank on blogosphere, eh?
Admittedly, my last entry was somewhat boring in nature. I was taking a little break to go to the west coast to see my new niece and family, and since my dad had passed my blog address out, I thought it would be fitting to update family members new to my blog with a diary journal of sorts to highlight my father-and-son trip up and down the western seaboard.
So why did I stop writing in the midst of the trip? Well, you should know that the whole journaling during the trip was all done retroactively. So by the time I wasn't on the train anymore, I stopped writing. I mean, if you're in Seattle, would you rather go out and have fun, or stay in and write? =) As you can tell, being cooped up in a train car for days on end without much mobility really made a dent on my humorous writing. Okay, maybe I wasn't humorous, but it sure got less humorous right after I started the train ride.
By the time I got back to Chicago, I had to catch up with so many things. The most important of all, which is in the order of livelihood, not personal passion ruler, was work. August 17, 2008 was the date for which all the hard work I had been putting in ever since starting at the hospital hinged on: Go-live date. And of course, once we successfully went live on IBM servers, it was a bit of hell to take on full responsibilities for the daily operations, when pressure type changed from ensuring project progress toward maintenance so that the systems don't go down.
Next up: The 2008 Chicago Marathon training. Seeing how I had missed the first, fourth and fifth week of the marathon training for being out of town, I thought it would be best that I finally get into the thick of things. I mean, that was my first ever to volunteer as a group leader for CARA, and I had close to 30 runners I'm responsible for. And naturally, as the weeks go by, the higher the mileage of the runs. So more running meant less personal time. This in turn meant no time to blog for me.
Of course, you can ask me why I didn't get back into it once I have completed the Chicago Marathon. Well... I went and ran the Seattle Marathon afterwards, followed by falling almost deadly ill for three weeks straight. Since then, I have yet to stop my lazy ass from becoming a total couch potato.
But no more of that! It took seven weeks of 2009 for me to finally realize that I got to get my lardy ass and second-trimester belly with A-cup manboops in some sort of a shape and get back into my normal routines.
Ta-dah! Here I am! (Only because blogging is hell of a lot easier than running...)
Disclaimer: Despite declaring my return to normal routines in such a transparent media, I sure as hell am not guaranteeing that I'll eat my own boxers if I fail to update this blog as often as when I was traveling for work. =)
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