February snow and a few possible resolutions that may or may not occur

I promise nothing; I'm merely trying a new tact at making life a little less monotonous. But I promise nothing.

It's February and this is the first time I've found myself in a blog post since the new year started. Sadly, 2011 doesn't seem to promise anymore excitement than people would expect, but of course, 99% of my monotony is my own doing. And so with a long blog post title, I've come to try reasoning with myself that I need to switch up the monotony with a little more motivation.

The past few weeks have become rather exciting in regards to my plans for the next couple weeks. I've been spending time playing computer games with my brothers and I've been watching movies and television (the foreign kind) nonstop. I've been stealing glances at my brother's keyboard with temptations to play but with no motivation, however, I will work on that. I've been told that I will be heading out of state for some work-related training which will take place both next week and later on in March.

And then there's that trip to Georgia I'm taking to visit one of my closest friends. My best friend has been hired for a position out of town and so now I have reasons to visit Kansas City every few weekends.

Finally, I've chosen to join the YMCA in order to get my butt in shape and to at least tell myself that I've been able to do something about my obesity. Of course, not even one day after I joined a freakin' gym, Kansas froze over and I regretfully stayed away from the outdoors for the entire snow storm unless I needed to be at work. And, of course, the snow storm continues on and I have chosen to stay home. I think there's some higher force out there testing my patience and my motivation.

My motivation, unfortunately, does not out-weigh the need to stay in a nice warm house and watch television.

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The weather has honestly not been too bad. I really like the winter season. Images of sitting around a fireplace drinking hot chocolate, eating random snacks and chit-chatting with friends comes into mind. But, of course, the reality is that we have traffic accidents, harsh, bitter winds, and school closings. I'm glad I have a nice vehicle that can handle the winter roads, otherwise, I would be adamant about going anywhere at all.

But hopefully this weather lets up soon. My goal had been to at least lose five to ten pounds by the time my trip to Georgia came around. One months should be enough, I've been telling myself, but my motivation for exercise really gets trumped too easily. Regulating my diet doesn't seem to be an answer as I have no way of making myself stop eating junk food or fast food or stop eating excessively, period. My only hope is that exercising will at least regulate my weight so that it doesn't keep getting higher, even if it doesn't go lower.

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My manager is sending me to Illinois this coming Sunday for a four day training course. This will be a new change of pace in my monotony, and maybe after that, I can try to bring up the desire to do other things instead of just sitting at home all day long. I've never been on a "business" trip before and this will be interesting as I have always gone out of town with friends or family for leisure only and without set itineraries.

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So with that, I'm hoping that my blogging life will also begin to see new sights. I do miss being able to just randomly spout things and then come back and read them at a later date. As much as I hate to boast, I really, really love to write and I really, really love to reread things that I've written in the past.