January 1st, Time To Start Over

This title has so many meaning it isn't funny. I am and have started over in a lot of things since my last post.

I Lost my Job last year as many of you know and then started a new one(Starting Over). I went from being a COBOL Programmer to being a tech support person. I really like the people at my new job and the job it's self is ok. It can get a little annoying at times dealing with people but over all I have a good time at work.

I also started taking classes again at night to learn some more updated programming languages(Starting Over). I am hoping to parlay these classes into a new job programming again in 2012(Starting Over). I have found that I really miss programming since I lost my Job in February of 2011. I didn't realize how much until I started taking the programming classes again. I found that I was enjoying my homework I was doing at lunch more then I was my job I was doing the rest of the day. Also the extra money programmers make over tech Support people would be nice as well.

My wife and I also decided in July to sell our house and move in to something smaller(Starting Over). This was because of two thing When we bought the house we have now we thought we would be having kids. As tings turned out the kids thing did not work out for reasons out side of our control. The other reason was that I am making less money at my new job and things are tight so a smaller mortgage payment would really be nice. We spent almost 4 months cleaning the basement out, having garage sales and redecorating the house before we put it on the market. We got it on the market in mid-November. We have not had any offers but we have had a good number of people come look at the house. We have also spent a lot of time looking at houses to buy so if someone does make an offer we are ready to move on a new house as soon as it happens.

Lastly I am Starting Over on my weight lose goals. Before I lost my job I had been doing a great job of eating good and exercising to lose weight. I am going to do that again this year. Unfortunately I d not have a nice exercise facility at this new job so I am still working out how I am going to get in good exercise but I will let you know what I do to help with that. My wife and I are also going to focus very heavily on staying at home to eat as much as we can.

So you can expect to see a lot of stuff on here. I will be posting my daily exercise and food diary for you. Also I will have my weekly weigh ins on Sunday. I will also sprinkle in some stuff about selling our house, and going back to school and maybe even looking for and starting a new job if I am lucky.