We Still Have Time.....

So, I was sitting here at the computer this afternoon listening to my iTunes on shuffle, Barry Manilow came on singing We Still Have Time. Now, Barry Manilow himself brings back many a memory - concerts in college with my most favorite roommate, Cindy; driving right past him in his limo while he was waving right to us driving in my cousins mustang, but that is a whole other story, for a whole other time.

Anyway, I was half-listening while messing around online and started thinking how we always think we still have time, but really, we don't know how much time we have. This has been brought to my attention a couple times in the last couple years most recently in December when I thought I was having a heart attack and was going to die (yes, I'm being a little melodramatic, but seriously, I definitely was scared to death!)

That experience has made me take evaluation of my life and really get serious about changes that I need to make. I have been working on losing weight for some time, but now, I am really serious - I even exercise! (I HATE to exercise) but I am attempting to play tennis and am doing boxing on my Wii Cardio game.

I want that time  (I want to be around for my kids, husband and grandkids, all 7 of them so far...)- I am not ready to face the alternative. I mean, I know it is going to happen eventually, and I AM going to be 50 this year (as my son so nicely put it earlier, "Mom, you are going to be half a century this year!) OUCH! But the truth is - I am. And in order to continue adding years to that calendar, I need to make some serious changes and so, this is the year I am doing it. I am down 26 pounds, which isn't a whole lot BUT it is a start and I am quite happy with it! I want to continue to go down the scale and am looking forward to watching that number continue to decline.

So until next time, I'm
~just being me