I'm still here

After our team call last night, I realized I haven't written one of these in a while. The fact that Lauren brought it up during our team call really hit it home.

My name is Chelsie, and I need a break. Welcome to the human side of me. I'm not go go go all the time. I just graduated with my Masters degree, and other than a year in between my last Associates and my Bachelors, I have been going to school since mom enrolled me in Kindergarten back in 1990. In case you don't want to do the math, that's 24 years of school. TWENTY-FOUR YEARS. If you think it sounds like a long time, try living it. It sucked - the outcome was great, but the first 4 years of our marriage was "Do you have homework tonight? When is your paper due? Would your parents mind if I used their computer - this is due while we'll be at their house, and the professor hasn't opened it yet." Thank God I married an awesome guy, and he not only put up with it, but encouraged me to follow my dreams.

SO, in the words of Ron White, I told you that story to tell you this story. I'm taking a much needed break from everything. I'm reading things I want to read, crocheting because I finally have time, spending time with my awesomely amazing husband and trying to make up for lost time. I actually get to watch TV now, although I couldn't find anything good last night, so I wound up watching a documentary on Marie Curie. (Fun fact I learned, Marie is the one who found the element Polonium, and since it was unnamed, she named it for her mother country of Poland - she was an expat living in France.)

I do intend to continue working out - I'll be restarting Cize tonight - and posting things about that on Facebook. Since I feel like I've been constantly going since the dawn of time, however, I will be taking time for ME. We all need that, sometimes, and now is mine.

Feel free to keep following me, reading up on my exercise journey, and know that I'm still cheering you on, even if I'm currently on the couch with a book or my crochet project.

With graduation over, just waiting on my diploma to come in the mail, I'm kind of like Muffin up there - trying to find my purpose in life again, since all I've known for the past 4.5 years is being a student. Bear with me - I'm a work in progress.