Socks, Two Quotes, and Weigh

I totally forgot about my Merino Wool socks.  I went to 3 different Academy's looking for these socks which have apparently sold out.  I found them, ironically, because I misplaced them in a store a month ago.   Before Christmas, I was looking to get some hiking socks.  I picked up the Merino Wool socks and almost purchased them but then saw some hiking socks I wanted instead.  I put the Merino Wools socks down in the wrong location of socks thinking that a stock person would put them back in the correct place.  Turns out, a month later, no one returned them to the proper place.  Which meant that the pair of socks I wanted didn't get purchased and were left for me to buy instead.  A pretty cool story.

I didn't make 150 by the end of the year, like I had hoped, but I did weigh in at my lowest yet, this morning, at 153.8.  I'll take it!

As we ring in the new year, there are two quotes I want to live by:

"When was the last time you rose, victorious, like a phoenix from the ashes?

Anyone can be burned, crushed, consumed. But not everyone chooses to rise. Grace is the air that turns our cinders to ashes and our ashes to wings. Rise. Then rise again."

and

"Be the Change You Seek."

I read my horoscope for the year on yahoo.  I couldn't believe how eerily it mirrored my feeling and hopes for 2013.  A lot of change in my life, for the better, good romance (in June no less!).  We will see... we will see...