What's up Nina? Thoughts from a Cystic Fibrosis Survivor & Lung Transplant Recipient

My New Years Resolutions Check Up

Here were the things I wrote in my New Year's Post to refresh your memory (as well as mine, lol)

First of all I want to actually continue blogging. Like every other day or so if I can. I was having a lot of fun with it at first and then if fizzled out and I started posting more useless and lame posts. So I’d like to change that in the coming year. Next I want to continue my photo a day so that I get better at my photography and start packing my camera around more.

Then, one of the goals I’ve wanted to accomplish for a while now, was to read through the entire bible. So I hope to finish that goal. Finally I hope to train for a triathlon (swim, bike, run) probably not actually compete in an event but train for one in the future.

As for smaller (or other) things, I’d like to:
Improve my lung function
Train my dog
Go backpacking
Ride 50 (maybe 100) miles on my road bike
Run 5 miles
Finish organizing my iTunes library
Get my mom to karaoke

Best weekend adventure EVER!

• As far as the blogging thing went, I missed a few months and will probably continue to miss a few months and/or weeks throughout the year as I have been really busy LIVIN IT UP with these lungs.
• I will try for sure to work on my photo365 project because I really want to be a better photographer and I now have to ability to walk almost unlimited distances (compared to before).
• I still would love to finish reading the bible and I hope to slowly but surely, reading is not one of my strong areas.
• I decided to cut back on the triathlon training because I am not sure how much I really want to train in swimming and I am really not that strong of a swimmer, I like to swim for fun but maybe in a year or so I will do this. Instead I decided to actually train to compete in the local duathlon. It is a run/bike/run, with distances of 2.6/13.5/2.6miles.
• So far I technically have not improved my lung function. It went way down and then back up, but I have not yet improved it from the baseline out of my surgery. Hoping for this soon!! (Which I may or may not have any control over)
• I have already trained my dog! Axel and I have taken 2 different classes but I do continue to keep him in school (lol) Going for agility next (unless I have to take obedience again hahaha)! I guess I can check this one off, even though it looks to be never-ending!!
• Going backpacking is coming this summer!! WooHoo!
• Ride 50 (maybe 100) miles on my road bike. I've got 25 Miles under my belt so ALMOST THERE just have to go twice that distance next time. I am very excited for this goal, again, waiting for a bit warmer weather!! Plus side is it looks possible to get to the 100 mark before the end of the year.
• Run 5 miles. I ran a 4 mile race!! I am getting cloooose!!!
• Finish organizing my iTunes library, which is doing a ton better, and a lot closer to my musical tastes as I have added and taken out thousands of songs depending on what sounds good to me. I have been identifying songs without info and consolidating like genres etc. I should be done soon!
• Getting my mom to karaoke has proven to be a hard one, BUT I HAVE NOT GIVEN UP HOPE!! This will happen, I cannot promise any proof, but don't worry, I will get my mother to karaoke!