Starting fresh. Today.

It's not a new year's resolution. Or a Feb-reso, as I used to call them. It's a "I'm twenty weeks away from accomplishing one of the most daunting physical tasks of my life (to date) and I need to start over" thing.

I had posts. I reverted all of them to drafts. I did this because I really wasn't feeling connected to the writing contained within them. So I decided to take a hiatus to contemplate just how I want this little escape to feel.

I want this blog to be healthy.

Everyone has their own struggles on the way to healthy. Everyone has their own idea of healthy. I feel that in order to really jump into the deep end (so to speak), I need to be able to chronicle the every day challenges that I meet before I hit the water. The little ones. The big ones. The real ones. The imagined ones.

But to be able to include all of those things, there are some major players in my life that deserve a little background (names have been shortened to initials for their privacy):

JV my other half. Just shy of two years together. Currently living and working on opposite ends of the country and hating it.

SL my best friend and little sister. She's mean on the outside, but soft on the inside. We're like bacon and chocolate, great alone, quirky together.

CL SL's best friend and birthday twin. We talk more than SL/CL do, and when SL abandons us for far away lands, we get our fix in by talking even more.

JM my saviour and temporary roommate when I moved to the city. After working together for a very short week and a half, I was invited into her home and left alone with all her worldly possessions and her puppy, Z.

AB my previous partner in crime (aka, work friend) who is sweet as pie and sporadically sarcastic and cynical.

JS the danceaholic who makes everyone smile. Also a previous partner in crime.

KD my version of SL's CL. She lives "back home," is a teacher, and has amazing curly hair. I miss her all the time and despite the fact that we rarely talk, it's like no time has passed when we're together.

M&D the parents. The role models. The reason I am who I am.

MM the newest partner in crime. Introverted just like me. Has a thing for feet (aka, reflexologist).

TW the future lawyer. She'll be abandoning me soon for the bigger city. A partner in crime from a previous life and always up for splitting a jug of sangria (or going to Chapters).

KK my "I can look to you for hope for my future." One half of a long distance marriage (at times), momma to sweet E, and fur momma to N. One heck of a homemaker.

At one point or another, one or more of those individuals will come up in a post. I just thought you should meet them. To anyone I haven't included here, it's not that they don't play a part. There are just some that are more involved with (in?) my life at this junction.

At the get-go, the most involved are JV and JM. CL and SL are on the sidelines. The others, for now, are kind of watching from the stands.

Nice sports reference on a health-related blog, hey? So cliche.