Quick confession

When I started doing it, I had gotten the idea to pass along some knowledge or at least force myself to pay more attention to these goals. 

Something happened right after I wrote my first post. I found out I have cancer. 

I just had surgery, (like two hours ago,) and have a 99.5% chance of being cancer free now, but I felt like I was being disingenuous because I feel some extra urgency to do the things in this list. I really didn't want this to be an, "I have cancer," blog. I was shooting toward saying, "Check out all these ways I'm improving my life and you can too," then, "let me tell you about my cancer treatments. 

I am bummed because I can't run for a month. I'm not required to eat a ton of ice cream, but that may replace the running.