Carly Sharec

I’m going to try to get into the habit of writing “wrap-up” posts at the end of each month. Honestly, I have the worst memory in the world, so these should be fun for me to look back over and reflect.

• January 1 – New Year’s Day! It was on a Friday and was pretty quiet, actually. Grandma had stayed with us over the Christmas holidays, so we all just hung out.
• January 4 – Back to work after two weeks of vacation. It was rough.
• January 5 – Grandma left for Florida.
• January 7 – Had to leave work early in order to get home due to icy conditions. Almost ate metal several times. Vow to spend January 2011 on the equator.
• January 8 - SNOW DAY! I had to work from home, but took some time to build Bob, the Blob.
• January 9 – I wrote a tweet about how I was inspired to run a marathon by two of my fave bloggers.
• January 12 – Absorbing the impact of the Haiti earthquake, which wreaked devastation throughout the country.
• January 15 – Began reading “The Rape of Nanking.” Absolutely powerful.
• January 18 – We took in two kittens that ended up on our porch. (They eventually ended up being stolen by our lovely neighbors, so full of class and elegance that I wish I could be them. Not. Still livid over the whole experience. You would think that killing a string of animals over the years through sheer neglect and passivity would be enough for them, yet here we are.)
• January 19 – My mom’s 49th birthday!
• January 22 -  Tweet: “I think pizza makes an awesome breafkast! It’s not weird at all.” Also on January 22: I reached my one-thousandth tweet!
• January 23 – I registered for my FIRST RACE EVER, a 5k on February 13.
• January 27 – Followed the live blog obsessively with one of my fellow coworkers as Steve Jobs introduced the iPad. (Oh, and President Obama gave his very first State of the Union address tonight. I fell asleep at 9:43.)
• January 30 – Today.

The first month of 2010 has been kind of fun! I feel like I’m sticking to my goals for the year, and I’m really excited about February. It should be a big month, and I can’t wait to blog about it.