New House

For those of you who have been wondering why I haven't posted any work yet, the reason is simple: I do not yet have a place to forge at. That will be changing now that Kathy and I have finally gotten an accepted offer on a house with a HUGE garage. The house has 1900 sq. ft. and Kathy has a series of ideas for the indoor spaces, but my focus will be getting a workspace set up for the forge and anvil. This is all contingent on the inspection of the house. Stay tuned dear reader, there will be metalwork aplenty to come. Of course this blog is meant to chronicle the progress of setting up the forge and all that comes after, so the joy will be in the journey, not the destination.

If at first you don't succeed...

Today I went about 500 calories above my allotted 1700 plus or minus. That is the bad news. The good news is that Kathy and I put an offer in on a house in Bardstown. To my friends in Alaska, you may have a place to hang out if you come down to visit. It also means that we have committed to about 10 more years in Kentucky. The big part for me is the GIGANTIC garage and the point 41 acres surrounding the place which will allow me to build the shop that I want. In the back yard. If the offer is even accepted. Which it may or may not be. Because the offer is about 30 grand less than the asking price. That may or may not matter because the house has been on the market for the better part of the last year. We celebrated the offer-making with ginger beer floats with rum. That put me a few hundred calories over the 1700. Okay. Back to the diet and weight loss thing tomorrow. Oh yeah, forgot. I'm going to try a juice fast next week. We'll see how that goes.

New Year 2012 Let's see how this goes...

It is soon to be 2012 and I am working out my new year's resolutions. There are a lot of people to give credit to while I explain where these resolutions come from.

1) Lose 40 pounds.
         The primary reason for this one is my wife over at Brave Food World who has already lost 60 pounds. Go Kathy.

2) Run a 5K race by my birthday.
          This one goes to my brother, who may or may not have a blog. He has been running for a while now and finally ran a half marathon. I hope that am in that kind of shape next year, because I want to make a really cool resolution next year.

3) Update this blog at least once a week. There, I've said it, now let's see if I can do it.
           I have been inspired by Krista over at cucina 49. Whose blog is really an impressive feat considering how crazybusy she always is.

4) Finish my MCSA. What you say? You do IT stuff? Yup, that's my day job. I am only one exam away from completing my Microsoft Server 2003 MCSA, but that last exam is a doozy.

5) Get the shop up and running again. Last year I took apart the forge space I had to save myself money and time, as I was no longer working nearby. this year, I am hoping to start forging again.

I can only assume that this is enough goalsetting to get me through the next 12 months. Should be interesting.