Until then we’ll just have to muddle through somehow.

So, haven’t updated this thing in about 8 months. I’ve started to write this post about 6 times since then. Here’s the deal, in Quick Hits format:

-Bought a house in Shirley, MA. Contemporary split level. We’ve done a lot of work, still going on, but it’s looking pretty nice. Certainly most responsibility I’ve ever had.

-Bought a puppy, the long-awaited miniature dachshund named Winston, who is simultaneously the most fun and frustrating little guy I’ve ever met.

-Working ten minutes away from our house, which is the shortest commute I’ve ever had, apart from working at the golf course in Plymouth (which doesn’t really count).

-Sort of missing the long drives every day where I could listen to lots of music.

-Quit the gym in Worcester about 5 months ago. Working out with body weight exercises, Super Bands, a kettle bell, pull-up bar, and a TRX in the basement.

-Currently weighing in a trim 166 pounds (lowest was 163, typically fluctuating between 164-166 on any given day).

-Listening to a lot of rap music: a lot of Wu-Tang, Kanye, Rick Ross, and Lloyd Banks. plus new guys like Kendrick Lamar. Anxiously awaiting my Dre headphones for Christmas.

-Listening to a lot of Christmas music. Love the Vince Guaraldi Trio, James Taylor, and the Christmas station on Pandora.

-Listening to Taylor’s “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” on repeat to the point of near-tears.

-Spending a lot of early hours reading and researching stuttering therapy to prepare for my entrance into small-scale private practice.

-Currently open for business after regular work hours in my home office. Hoping to have 1-2 clients soon to supplement my current job. After about a year of contemplation, finally pursuing a dream.

-Doing the bare minimum as far as workouts and nutrition, due to professional interests and new house/puppy responsibilities.

-Finding it exhausting to balance and maintain interest in all of these things at once. Maybe it isn’t possible?

-It shows the effectiveness of the diet and the short, hard Turbulence Training workouts that I can maintain my current fitness level and body composition (which I have to say is as good as it’s ever been) with little mental effort and two-to-three 30-40-minute workouts per week.

-Though, not going to make any more real gains until I increase focus, which I don’t have much of a desire to do right now.

-Learning that growing up is hard to do, even when things are seemingly going very well.

-Maybe I’m just the type to be in a permanent existential crisis.