Spring Cleaning

Spring! What a wonderful season. A time of rebirth and cleaning and retraining. (At least...I think it's spring. All the shops are having sales and there are pictures of people laying out in the sun. It's still occasionally snowing up here - but I'll take everyone's words for it. )

Can you believe it? 1/4 of the way complete with 2015. It's these times that honestly, I find stressful. As much fun as it might be to scroll back through your Facebook feed or reminiscence using Timehop, there's also that moment where you see things that you were not so successful at. You are reminded of those days that it was good just to get through.

These aren't bad things - they are just a reminder (at least to me) that I can always do better. I believe that I have an addiction to excuses. An addiction that needs to be quickly flushed down the toilet. So, basically, I am reviewing my resolutions and my schoolwork to see how I can a) make my life a bit less stressful and b) do everything to my best ability; not just get by.

Now, I'm not going to go through each of them with you, because there's three or four that I'm actually knocking out slowly. However, my first instinct is to blame all of the unfortunate things that are lagging behind on the weather. It would be a perfect excuse if other people didn't succeed in completing it.

Take exercise for example. I am a runner. Now, with my knee, I can't run outside in the cold. It could result in me either injuring myself again or hurting my good knee. So I told myself I would swim instead. Let's just leave it at that hasn't happened as often as it should.

But, once more, spring is a time of rebirth - which is exactly what I am planning on doing with my resolutions. I hate not finishing things.

A few fun facts about other things happening in my life:

1) I have joined the Fitbit cult. I am not ashamed - more quite curious why it's so popular. Unfortunately, I looked in the mail room after my run this morning to find it - but nevertheless I have it on. If you happen to also be a member, shoot me a message so that we can compete! (Fun story - no where near 10,000 steps today. It's called homework.)

2) I have recently learned that there is a chance that I will be able to get a couple classes waved in grad school. This would be wonderful because I won't have to be bombarded with the same information again AND that's quite a bit of money saved. However, it requires me to find my old syllabuses from a couple years ago. When I wasn't thinking about graduate school. And threw out everything at the end of the semesters.

So prayers of reconnecting with teachers and finding these would be greatly appreciated. There's a lot of benefits to this plan and I really need it to work out.

Happy Palm Sunday!

Until next time,

Kaity Sheppard

(Photos taken on the same run 3/29/15 with iPhone 6. Do you see what I mean by it's not really spring??)