Happy New Year. This is weird. No resolution. No plan. I can't say that I'm not depriving myself: I'm deprived of spare time now that I spend so much time at the gym. With all that I'm busy with, it's hard to find the time to get in enough exercise time, so I have to give up things like TV, reading, learning new things for work, time spent with friends at Karaoke or various other diversions.

I keep going back to my Thanksgiving experience at the Shriver household. Everyone made time in their day for something active. The moms jogged in the morning, the families went to walk on the beach, they gave up football in front of the tube to go play capture the flag with the neighbors. It was such a natural thing for them. Built into their day. Automatic. I can barely express how foreign that was to me. It got me thinking, though.

I have this mantra now: do something every day. I got these Sketchers ShapeUps. They make me want to walk everywhere. I was waiting until after xmas to go to the mall and wander around for like half a day. Walk walk walk. That counts, right? It must.