WORKOUTS & ROCKSTARS

This is my first entry of 2009, and we're already halfway through the first month.  That's relatively quiet for me, so I figured I'd write and fill you all in on what I've been up to.

And to be honest, it's been a LOT of working out.  I've been going to the gym about 4 times a week and doing lots of walking and biking.  As easy as that sounds, walking, jogging, or running 7 miles a day is harder than it sounds.  I've been trying to get myself in better shape for some of the things that I have coming up later in the year, and I figured this was the time to get started.  I have a friend who I'm dragging into all this with me, so it's been nice to have a workout buddy.  Sometimes its hard to get motivated to work out at 7 am on your own! hahaha

I've been spending a lot of time at home, which has been nice.  I've been trying to move into my room since we bought our new house in October, and I'm still only about 90% there.  I'm ready to finish going through everything, get situated, and officially move in.  The nice part is that we coverted half of our sunroom to a home gym with an elliptical, stationary bike, treadmill, weights, and an ab machine, so even when it's cold out, I can just walk to the other side of the house and work out.

We also just got Guitar Hero for the Wii, so we've been rocking out in our living room on a daily basis.  We also have this platform when you first walk into our house that we all call the "stage", so it's pretty funny to see everybody so into it!!!  My mom's been practicing and is trying to kick my butt so we'll see how she does here in a couple weeks...hahaha.  She's pretty awesome for just starting!!!

On a more serious note, I've also been doing some songwriting with an amazingly talented co-writer, which is something I never thought I'd be doing.  I had written songs growing up, but probably less than 5 people have ever heard them, and I never thought that there would come a point where I would have my lyrics become an actual song, so that has been really cool.  It's been a big learning experience for me, and maybe someday I'll actually record a studio version of one of the songs we've been working on and put it up somewhere.  I guess we'll see.

I hope y'all are taking it easy and staying warm.  Right now, it's -25 below with the wind chill here at home, and it's gettin me pumped for summer!!!  Can't wait!

Well, it's past midnight, and I have to be up again in about 6 hours to get ready to hit the gym.  I'm not a morning person, so this should be interesting!!!  hahaha

Till next time, peace and handpounds,
-KOON