Who the heck is Punxsutawney Phil??

It’s Groundhog Day. And today I feel like I saw MY shadow! I’ve learned that these silly little groundhogs are actually afraid of their shadows, and they then run back into their home or the cage they are kept in until next year. Or at least that’s the joke. But for me, I’m at a big girl job doing time wasting things, and all of a sudden, on such a big day, I’ve been given real live tasks! The other day I was assigned to read this book, come up with some questions for the author, e-mail them, and then turn the answers into a Q & A type thing. And I was super excited about that, but he called it a “long term” project because it won’t be going out into a magazine until May or June. So then I was back to doing my “I don’t know what to do” tasks until he called me and the other assistant editor into his office to talk about future magazines! He wanted me to add a few things to my existing article (The one I wrote starting my 2^nd day and turned in last week… and had Justin edit about 3 times) and then assigned me two OTHER articles for our two magazines for next month! I feel like I got a raise or a promotion or something! This is what I feel school trained me for yah know? They assign you work, and you keep it in the back of your mind and eventually things start to be due. And it’s a high paced environment full of slacking off/panicking/doing your work. It’s what I FEED off of. And I wasn’t sure that was how it was going to be because I rarely had things to do for these first few weeks, and the things I was assigned were accomplished within 20 minutes. But if this is what it is… I went into the right career.

I worked out yesterday and felt AMAZING. I mean it was up there with seeing my boyfriend, or playing with Evelyn. It seriously just boosts my mood and can make me do a complete 180. I love knowing that I’m improving (When I started in August I was running at like 5.9/6.0 an hour, and now I’m at 6.2/6.3 an hour) and that I can run a 5K without feeling like I’m dying, and I love to see the muscles appear and just feel good overall. And the weight training has really toned my arms and my calves. Now it’s all about the stomach, quads, and hammies! I’m still really pumped to see where I will be in August because than it’ll be a full year! I’m hoping to lose another 15 by then. We’ll see though. I’ll keep you posted! I think I took a slight hit when I started working this new job because I sit ALL day now instead of running around. So I have to lower my calorie intake and just make sure to really be getting stuff out of my workouts.

That’s it for now. I have a lot of grown up adult work to do, and no time to be writing, but I thought I’d fill in my followers about the work and all the progress! And remember, whether a mole/squirrel/gopher type thing sees it’s shadow or not, remember that this was the best winter ever (unless you LOVE negative weather, gloom, and blizzardy snow storms) and nobody cares if it lasts another six weeks. Just saying…

Always,