From Julia, to Julie, to Jenn.....

I will be forty years old on June 11, 2010.  Forty.  Years.  Old.  I am entirely unclear how that happened.  How about 2010?  Didn't the Jetsons promise hovercrafts and fully automated showers by now?  We certainly thought we would be healthier by the late aughts.  Wasn't that the common refrain, that American medicine just keeps getting better and better?

Well, I'm here to tell you, as a perfectly broken down physical specimen, that just ain't true, folks.  I am feeling every one of my almost-forty years, plus an additional 20 tacked on for good measure.  I have been brought down, be felled even,  by a perfect marriage of misapplied, misdiagnosed, western medicine quackery and my own slovenly mis-care of the only sacred vessel I'll be handed in this life.  

The recent buffoonery by the idiots we have placed in charge of the American asylum has shown that the health care situation in this country will not be getting better any time soon.  Our health is in our own hands, now more than ever.  To that end, I have made a committment to myself, and now to you, that I am going to get better.  Not only that, I am going to blog about getting better.  Primarily because, left to my own devices, I will look for any and every way to get out of doing this.

2010.  365 days.  365 posts.  Every day I will do something positive and life affirming.  Every day I will make a healthy choice for my body, and heart, and mind. 

2010.  I will work out.  I will eat healthy meals.  I will read amazing books.  I will see theater and movies and television that inspire me.  I will listen to beautiful music.  I will create with my hands.  I will create with my mind. 

2010.  I will remember who I am, who I was, and who I would like to be.  I will give myself the respect, honor and love due me.

2010 in 2 days.  Let it begin...