*** 2008 ***

2008 has arrived! Well, it arrived a week ago but I'm still catching up. I finally took the Christmas stuff down, so it's officially over. Except for the remaining chocolates, goodies and extra couple of inches... Guess it's time to get to work on that. Let me have one more chocolate first... Okay, I'll be honest - it'll be a while before I am motivated to go through sugar withdrawal.

Now that Dan's back at work, I haven't been skiing as much. I'll have to get up more often since that seems to be the only exercise I can do these days. I'm not really running right now. Not sure if I've mentioned it before, but the doc thinks I've got exercise induced asthma. Apparently that's why I get dizzy and nauseous when I run. This started happening a couple of years ago. It didn't happen very often at first. When it did, I just thought I hadn't eaten properly or was tired or something. Now it happens almost every run if I don't stop as soon as I notice it coming on. Not a good thing when running is what keeps me sane. I get a bunch of lung tests this week to see what's going on. I sure hope they can figure it out and fix me up so I can run again. I've got a race on Sunday. Too bad I had to wait so long to get into the specialist and get appointments for the tests. I won't have any fixes for the problem in time for this run.

The race I'm doing is the Arizona Rock 'n' Roll 1/2 Marathon in Phoenix! Four of us from my run group are going down for a week of fun. We're not too sure what the plan is after the run. We're hoping to do some hiking, maybe check out some caverns, shop at REI... We'll see what happens when we get down there!