A New Year

We are officially one entire week into the new year and this usually signifies new beginnings of some sort.  I have a couple such new beginnings.

Starting on the first weekday of the new year (Monday, January 3rd), I started my new workout regimen with Jillian Michaels' 30 Day Shred.  This routine consists of 18 minutes of straight workout with probably another approximate 4 minutes each of warm up and cool down.  The workout is Jillian's 3-2-1 program consisting of 3 minutes of strength training, 2 minutes of cardio and 1 minute of abdominal crunches.  Now, I am pretty sure that Jillian Michaels is the antichrist but I can tell you that after 5 days of this workout in a row, I can already tell a difference.  I am much stronger and Mike seems to think that I am skinnier (not so weight wise but I suppose I could have toned up a bit already).  It is the most intense workout I have ever endured but I am done in less than 30 minutes and I already feel the benefits.  I gave myself the weekend as I headed down to Dodgeville on Saturday to see the folks and hang out with high school friends.

This leads me to my other new beginning of this new year...I have a new show and I am obsessed!  I am in love with The Vampire Diaries on the CW.  Ok, so this started before the new year cause I needed to catch up with the first season via Netflix but I am now waiting for the new episodes to air starting January 27.  It is a teeny bopper show but the writing is actually pretty good and so is the acting.  Not to mention that they have employed some of the most beautiful people I have ever seen for these characters.  I was pleasantly surprised which turned into intrigue which turned into a mild compulsion to know what would happen next which turned into full blown obsession and I am sure I need an intervention now.  Carla, Liz and I sat for hours and watched Season 2 and now I am all caught up.  I usually get annoyed and bored when a subject seems to get overplayed but not when it involves vampires, witches and werewolves.  I cannot wait to see what happens next!