Thursday, January 22, 2015

Nothing fun


I'm going to do something fun this weekend.  I don't know what, but I'll find something.  I've been doing so much work that I'm fairly certain that I've gone insane.

Thursday, January 1, 2015

2015 Resolutions

I'm happy to say that I did ok on my 2014 resolutions. I read quite a bit. I'm going to say my new hobby is organizing my apartment. I guess Spanish is also one. I'm still fairly addicted to my electronics though, so I definitely need to work on that. The friend thing was about something specific and I got better at that too. Overall, not bad. I at least made progress on them all.

I am thinking about five resolutions this year. I can't do 15, but I think five is a nice number. I really haven't thought a lot about them before this second, so we'll see if I can come up with five. 

1. Be healthier. I'm making this kind of broad. I don't need to lose weight exactly, but I want to be more active and especially eat and drink healthier. A lot healthier. I'm not really starting out on the best foot as I am surrounded by sugar, but I'm really going to actively try to be healthier. Do more things at the gym. Go outside more.  Try drinking more tea and less fancy coffee drinks. Eat more vegetables and way less processed food.

2. Save money.  I might need to get rid of Amazon Prime. I love it but I'm fairly sure that I'm buying things because I can. I really want to pay down or off my credit cards and maybe even my car loan. I do really like the music part of prime so I think I just need to learn self-control. I need to learn it in a lot of areas, but I'll start with money.

3. Go to new places. I was great at this at first, living in LA, because everything was new. Now it takes a bit more motivation and research.  I'm going to be ambitious in a way and say 15 for 2015.  Spring will be busy with work stuff, but Kendra and Jon are planning on coming this summer and that will motivate me to go to new places.

4.  Cook at least four real meals a month. This doesn't sound like a lot, but it goes along with being healthy. I'm really good at packaged meals or cereal, but SUCK at cooking an actual meal. Easier on weekends if I'm not being lazy.

5.  Let things go/stop obsessing. This, again, like the friend thing, is related to something specific. That's all that needs to go on here.

I think that's a pretty good list. The special Ed teacher in me thinks they are attainable in a year. Measurable, maybe not, but attainable nonetheless.