It's been a year and I decided I won't have the excuse of completely falling in love with Cody to distract me this summer. Distracted from what? From the story I started 11 years ago. ELEVEN YEARS!! What is wrong with me?
And want to know the best part? I still laugh at my lame jokes in the story. I was able to breeze through the first part of my story today--only took me an hour and fifteen minutes. That's probably because I'd started to go through it last May/June. It'll get harder as I keep going. Parts 3-5 I haven't looked at since August 2008. TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT, people! That's four years! That's a really long time to get distracted with school and dating and working and graduating and finding a job and dating the best man ever and then getting engaged to him (and then marrying him).
Four years. Eleven years. Who knows, maybe I'll actually finish going through it for real this summer and if I have any guts left in me after that endeavor, could I really go after my goal of trying to get it published? We'll see. Kinda scares me and makes me want to write with a penname so that no one can trace my silliness to me but then another part of me thinks that I should be proud of it and not be scared. Plus, one of the reasons I used to play around with pen names was so that if I got it published when I was still unmarried, it could still be traced to me (dumb, I know). But I'll be Beth Knudsen forever and I don't need to worry about that.
Oh yeah, another thing I started again: running. I mean I have been running (or doing yogalates--yoga and pilates) since the new year started, but I ran three times this week! The first two days kicked my butt, but the last day, that was great.
I've also started planning again for school next year (I'm such a nerd) because I want to do so much better at teaching math next year, especially with the new math standards for fifth grade. I did an alright job and my students learned this past year but I know I can do so much better and I'm really looking forward to it.
