Things going on....

With the solstice right around the corner, I have been doing a lot of thinking about the next year and where I want to go with my life and lifting. I admit that while things are still a bit up in the air, I am still very focused on the Emerald Cup. I plan to attend the Cup in 2007 and compete in 2008. As much as I would like to strive for competing in it this coming year, there just is not enough time. I still have much mass to gain and I cannot see myself making it to where I would feel remotely competitive in March/April. But this is good because that gives me time to focus, grow, heal and learn.

I have seen so many bad routines on video that I do not want to place myself in the lower end of that curve much less in it. The time will allow me to have the abdominal surgery and heal with plenty of time to spare. I will also have time to deal with this shoulder and get it conditioned as well.

The time will also allow hubby to settle in to what he wants to do with his time now that he is retired. He is a little lost and floundering. There are times I look at him and see a very content man and there are others where I see the longing in his eyes to be out doing his military stuff. The transition is going well but there will be moments of longing for some time to come. I could not imagine walking away from that type of work and not missing it...it just takes a special and certain type of individual to give in the manner his job required without having equal dedication.

But time goes on as do we all...so we wait and take it one day at a time.