Catch Up

Pin It now! Hi there, remember me?  I'm not going to mention that I haven't written for over a month.  Ok, there I said it but let's move on.  I've been busy with work, cooking, weekends, birthdays.... here's a 10 second photo montage of what's been happening here in BK.

Our non-existent winter and the fabulous transition into an already very warm spring.

Trying to get through Hunger Games before the movie comes out.

Getting back into volleyball and anxiously awaiting the start of dodgeball.

Running outside again (signed up for this 5K).

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Celebrating Chinese New Year (four times)

Ran the 5K Today

Pin It now! I did it!  I know many people don't have to train for a 5K and can easily run 3.1 miles.  I, on the other hand, have trained for the last month and a half, and ran my first 5K today after two years of being out of shape.  It felt good!  I started barely running a mile when I first started a couple of months ago and it was so nice to finish the entire race today.  I'm motivated now (since I know I can actually run the entire race!) and am signed up for the Corporate Challenge in June.  I can't wait until it starts getting nice outside so I can run outside.  Brooklyn is building up its waterfront into more parks and it'll be gorgeous to have the Manhattan skyline as my running partner.

Running the Lincoln Tunnel Challenge was challenging but a lot of fun.  You can't usually walk through tunnels so running a race through one was extra fabulous.  And the weather cleared up - with yesterday's torrential rain, I thought we would get rained out, but it turned out to be a beautiful day. 

Quarterly Review

Pin It now! At work, I do a lot of reviews on a quarterly basis so I figure I might as well do the same for my personal life.  Keeps me in check and I make sure I'm pushing myself.  Ok, remember I made a to-do list back in January?  I think I'm doing pretty well.

Work - It's been five months in my new role and I really love it.  It's definitely challenging and things aren't second nature yet, but I feel like I'm sinking into the role.  I'm an impatient person though and when my mind runs faster than my body or faster than the skills I can acquire, I just want to get there already.  I know, patience is a virtue... The new role has allowed me to develop new and existing relationships which was the key thing I was lacking from my old position.  I really love that I have a foot in the door and not invisible to the right people. 

Fluent in Cantonese - Not yet, but I did sign up for a class that begins in mid-April  More to come.

52 Week Project - So far so good!  I absolutely love this item on my list.  Every week I look forward to figuring out where and what to photograph.  I'm trying not to be too cliche and am trying to find things that are outside the ordinary course.  I think I might start photographing things beyond places in NYC and items that are relevant to what's happening in my life for that week (like the blood oranges).

A few other things that I'm adding...
Running.  I'm up to 2 miles and getting pass the two mile mark is definitely motivating me to keep pushing to the full 3.1 miles for the Special Olympics Lincoln Tunnel Challenge in a couple of weeks.  Unlike two years ago, I think I can actually run the entire thing!

Writing.  I'm not sure how to go about this one.  I want to write more, and something along the lines of a legal article for work or relevant Brooklyn articles for the Examiner (no, this blog doesn't count).  I'm still figuring this one out so if you have any suggestions, let me know!  On top of writing more substantively, I also want to document more of my family's story.  I'm pretty sure I may have said I wanted to do this last year and I keep putting off starting the project.  So now it's on the to-do list...