Goals Are Busting Out All Over!

In spite of very blatantly falling short in one of life's goals, namely posting to this blog on a regular basis, I have recently set a number of goals for myself.

Not to be morbid about it, but perhaps with the big 5-0 staring me in the face in a lot less time than I care to admit, reality is setting in that I really do want to be around for a while.

Goal 1: 50 by 50. If that was a multiplication problem the answer would be a nice round 2500, but this is setting the bar for losing 50 pounds of waistline, thigh and any place else on my body fat has been victimized by a love of food and the righteously maligned middle age spread (cue scary, threatening music). Goal 2 should help achieve Goal 1.

Goal 2: Wii Are Active! A Wii Fit Plus will help with its built-in scale in the foot platform that comes with it and nominal gauges of calories burned and BMI (body mass index, for the uninitiated). But I'm not relying on that alone, last summer Kathryn was very keen on walks when I got home early enough and I'm hoping that will be the case again this year. Although I should clarify that she rode her scooter most of the time while I attempted to power walk to catch up to her. And in a stroke of welcome coincidence, last year the "wellness" packages that my firm's HR department gives out annually (to encourage us all to take care of ourselves a good deal better than most of us do), came with a small pedometer that one attaches to clothing at the waist and it counts either steps, kilometers, miles or calories expended. So at least I can get something of an accurate measure of how far Kathryn and I are going (all within the confines of the neighborhood).

Goal 3: Yard Beautification: This also aids Goal 1. This past weekend, for example, Saturday turned out to be gorgeous day and so the trees were trimmed (including a sizeable amount from one that shading one corner of the backyard enough to hinder grass growth), bushes were trimmed, a root of 1-1/2" diameter breaking the surface of the ground and hindering the opening of our backyard gate was ruthlessly hacked out with pickaxe (insert Tim Taylor grunt here) and Sunday morning I dug up more ground to expand our side yard planting bed. This all seems to expend a great deal of energy, and with this exercise you get to see the results immediately, a nice bonus.

Goal 4: Racing Around the World! Walt Disney World, that is. Once my body can stand it, with that self-inflicted, I mean self-directed goal 1 being achieved, I would like to participate in one of the marathons that they run at WDW. I'm not really picky about which one - 5K, Half Marathon, Full Marathon, participation and finishing will be what the measure of success is. I have not set a date for this goal yet, I'm going to judge by end of the summer results!

So those are the big goals. I have a few more minor ones in mind as well. Including one or two for this here humble little blog......