New Year, New Room!

Hello 2013.  How are you doing? Guess what? I have a clean room and a workstation and it is amazing. I have made some projects on my new project table and I LOVE it.  This week I get to use it to do real work.

As many of you know I have a problem keeping my room clean.  This past month has led to the cleanest my room has been in let's say quite a few years. It's taken two friends who volunteered their time (THANK YOU SO MUCH!) and many months on my part of thinking, planning and actually doing things to get to this point. I'm not totally done but done enough to post a couple of photos so that you all can see (and prove to myself that it does look good and I can keep it this way.)

desks and wall decorations!

 A clean floor. nay MY clean floor.

These past two weeks have been busy. Before Christmas,  I got my family to go to a meeting in Hayward on our way to the mountains which was led by the leader that I went to when I lost 30 lbs in 2008-2009, which was nice and her meeting was fun. I managed to...drum roll please!  loose 0.2 lbs!! Whoo hooo! Then we went to the mountains and it was not very snowy till we arrived then it was very snowy.

Max, Sam and Jake on a walk.

But instead of getting stuck in the house we went for walks with the dogs . And thanks to the big empty lot next to my brother and sister in law's house, we made a luge run for the sleds and a path to walk up back up the hill.  My brother in law and I went up and down the hill maybe 20 times in a row.  It was so much fun.  I also volunteered to shovel snow. (Which is something I have never done before, growing up in a place with a lack of snow.) I also did a bunch of laps around the house upstairs and down and down the hallway to the way downstairs.  (My sister tried to do them with a cocktail and did the cocktail did not make it.)

Lots of Snow. It was very pretty.

When we got back to my parent's house I went straight to the airport to pick up my old roommate who was in town for work.  We got a day to hang out and it was so much fun! We walked all around the hood and saw the Hobbit. The next day, I took her to the airport and went to my old WW meeting on Sunday am. Then I drove to my friends house where we proceeded to play Star Trek settlers, regular settlers, and cards against humanity for 10 hours. SO FUN!

At my meeting I realized that what made the new meeting so fun was really the people (who were very vocal and had good things to share with everyone) and the leader.  I still like my Sunday leader, I think I just need to go to one of the earlier meetings where the people are more talkative.  I am very happy to report that after no computer and no phone (which led to not very much tracking) and quite a bit of drinking more than usual, I only gained 0.2 lbs. So between the last two weeks I am at even. That is amazing!!! I am so excited about that. I went out for dinner and to a bar last night and I maybe ate and drank too much (all my extra points in one day). But I tracked and continue to track and will exercise.  Hopefully, I will stay the same or maybe even loose a little.  That would be great.

2013 is going to have clean rooms, more games with friends, lots of laughs, walks, and not being afraid to do things that are scary. Wish me luck.

Happy New Years!