Spring Fever

So I am starting to get spring fever, and unfortunately it is a few weeks too early.

I really want to get back outside on a regular basis and go biking and playing basketball.

I am gonna try out rollerblading but it has been a while since I have skated on anything.

Luckily I have good balance thanks to a few years of tae-kwon-do and I am not too worried about it.

AZ has concerns about me trying it out but oh well. :) We discussed it last night but he doesn't know me well enough when it comes to athletics as I know about myself.

Basically it comes down to perception.

I have spent years trying to portray an image of an overweight hick, even down to the flannel. I think the main reason I did that was because I had a lot of self-doubt and if I gave people the impression that I was a good-for-nothing dumb person, when they got to know me, they would be surprised and I would get a boost out of fooling them.

Don't ask me why I did it, mainly I was being pathetic and too self-conscious to show my real self and was worried about how I was perceived.

In reality, I am athletic and am a physicist. :)

Thankfully, I am not like that any more. I still have some extra weight that I am trying to get rid of and have already shed 60 lbs over the last year. Still a little ways to go but once spring hits, it should peel off nicely. Not literally hopefully. :)

Anyway, my whole self-image thing has vastly improved now that I am being more selfish and I really want to look as good as I feel. So I definitely can't wait for spring to arrive so I can do go some sports and stuff.

I am also hoping to try out snowboarding and see how I like it. If I like it, I will have some sporty thing to do over the winter next time around, and whatever is left for this winter (which may be a while yet).

Perhaps next fall I will be excited about the snow falling...we'll see.

Just waiting for MGB to get back to me...next weekend maybe? I think we need to give a 3-day heads-up to Sugarloaf for that package, but not sure. Lemme know! :)