TOW All (Well Almost All) The Resolutions
Happy Almost New Year!
I don't plan on making any resolutions to own any good smelling leather pants (anyone who watched Friends should get that reference. ;) But since I was finally able to keep my resolution last year, I thought I would make a few more this year. I'll hang on to my resolution from last year - to lose weight. Though I will amend it to keep losing weight.
My biggest resolution is time management. I think that one will help me with my other resolutions. I've been having the hardest time for ages getting organized and managing my time better. Even when I didn't have a job, it always felt like I had a thousand things to do and no time to do it in. And it doesn't matter when I wake up. When I lived with my mother, I regularly woke up at noon and sometimes a lot later. But when I moved in with Mike I made a conscientious effort to try waking up earlier. I talked with a friend and she talked about trying to wake up at 5 or 6, which I knew was never going to happen. But I was hoping that maybe I could eventually work myself up to 7. At first I was doing well, getting up at 8 and mostly 9. But lately I've been slipping and it's past and mostly after 10. I definitely want to try and get back to where I was before.
I've bought organizers to try and help, but they've never worked much before. I don't use it like most people probably use it. I write down my appointments and work schedules, but instead of writing down the things I need to do in a given day or week ahead of time, I use it like a journal and write them down after I've done them. And the organizer I bought for this year was a completely wasted purchase. I had this great organizer, this fat day planner from Mead, but I couldn't find it and had to buy an organizer that was specifically dated for this year. Unfortunately, I only wrote in it a few times this year. I thought about scratching all the dates out and just using it for this year, but I don't feel like it. I'll just have to buy a better one for this year and actually use it better. I don't like keeping to a schedule, which is probably why I haven't managed to stick to one even though I've wanted to. I don't like feeling restricted, but I probably need more structure to be able to get better organized. Not a really, tight restrictive schedule but I need to have some kind of plan to know what I need to do for the day and write it down and give myself time to do it.
Another resolution is to eat a little more variety, especially when it comes to vegetables. I want to eat as many healthy foods as I can. I always says that I have an inordinate amount of taste buds on my tongue, so I'm very hesitant in what I eat because tastes, especially bad ones, are really strong and last a long time after I eat something. So I'm very basic in what I eat and stick to mostly simple stuff. But Mike knows a lot more about food than I do and he's very good about being a bit more adventurous in what he cooks and eats so he gets more vitamins and different nutrients. He's exposed me to a lot of stuff, some things that I insist I don't like, but I've really never tried before. Like Mike likes to eat brussel sprouts, he'll even eat them as a snack, which I found gross. But honestly, other than knowing that people, especially kids, hate eating brussel sprouts I'd never eaten them. One day, he just asked me to try them and I did and they weren't as bad as I feared they'd be. I wouldn't snack on them, but I can eat them every now and then.
I had this friend I used to e-mail with almost every day a few years ago. I met her online a long time ago, and lost touch with her for a little while until I e-mailed her one day and we just kept up with it. She was a great friend and was really good with advice. It always took me awhile to write, because as you may have noticed, I can be very wordy when I write. When I moved in with Mike, I just stopped writing her less and less because I didn't have a lot of time, but I feel bad about that and miss talking to her.
I want to write in my journal more and also to write every day. I had bought The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creative Writing many years ago and it talked about if you wanted to be a better writer one thing was to try and write every day, especially in a journal. So I bought a journal. I was good about writing in it for a while, but then had periods of stopping and starting. I've had that journal for ten years now and there's still a hell of a lot of blank pages, and this is not an especially big journal. I don't know if I'll be able to write every day, but whether it's in the physical journal, here on LJ, or just writing stories, I want to write as much as possible.
I want to watch more movies. I want to watch more TV too, but that'll be a separate post. It feels weird to say I want to watch more movies, since I should probably cut my television time. Mike said he read something somewhere where you should only watch two hours or so of TV a day. But I usually exceed and don't see that changing, though I have cut my time down considerably over the last few years. But still there's a lot of movies that I want to see. It feels like I barely watch any movies, because mostly I'm either watching TV shows or I'm on the computer. When I'm online, I don't want to watch something that I want to pay really close attention to, so I just don't watch a lot of movies that I really want to. I still have stuff on my Netflix queue that have been there for years and years. I have three moves from Netflix collecting dust on top of my cable box that have been there for over a year. So I definitely want to get those very soon.
I'm not good on the phone or talking to my family, but I have a couple of cousins who I really love and have wanted to get in touch with, but haven't found the time but I want to at least once to catch up.
I need to go to the doctor's ASAP. I haven't even had a physical in ages.
I have more, but that's all for now.
Stacey
I don't plan on making any resolutions to own any good smelling leather pants (anyone who watched Friends should get that reference. ;) But since I was finally able to keep my resolution last year, I thought I would make a few more this year. I'll hang on to my resolution from last year - to lose weight. Though I will amend it to keep losing weight.
My biggest resolution is time management. I think that one will help me with my other resolutions. I've been having the hardest time for ages getting organized and managing my time better. Even when I didn't have a job, it always felt like I had a thousand things to do and no time to do it in. And it doesn't matter when I wake up. When I lived with my mother, I regularly woke up at noon and sometimes a lot later. But when I moved in with Mike I made a conscientious effort to try waking up earlier. I talked with a friend and she talked about trying to wake up at 5 or 6, which I knew was never going to happen. But I was hoping that maybe I could eventually work myself up to 7. At first I was doing well, getting up at 8 and mostly 9. But lately I've been slipping and it's past and mostly after 10. I definitely want to try and get back to where I was before.
I've bought organizers to try and help, but they've never worked much before. I don't use it like most people probably use it. I write down my appointments and work schedules, but instead of writing down the things I need to do in a given day or week ahead of time, I use it like a journal and write them down after I've done them. And the organizer I bought for this year was a completely wasted purchase. I had this great organizer, this fat day planner from Mead, but I couldn't find it and had to buy an organizer that was specifically dated for this year. Unfortunately, I only wrote in it a few times this year. I thought about scratching all the dates out and just using it for this year, but I don't feel like it. I'll just have to buy a better one for this year and actually use it better. I don't like keeping to a schedule, which is probably why I haven't managed to stick to one even though I've wanted to. I don't like feeling restricted, but I probably need more structure to be able to get better organized. Not a really, tight restrictive schedule but I need to have some kind of plan to know what I need to do for the day and write it down and give myself time to do it.
Another resolution is to eat a little more variety, especially when it comes to vegetables. I want to eat as many healthy foods as I can. I always says that I have an inordinate amount of taste buds on my tongue, so I'm very hesitant in what I eat because tastes, especially bad ones, are really strong and last a long time after I eat something. So I'm very basic in what I eat and stick to mostly simple stuff. But Mike knows a lot more about food than I do and he's very good about being a bit more adventurous in what he cooks and eats so he gets more vitamins and different nutrients. He's exposed me to a lot of stuff, some things that I insist I don't like, but I've really never tried before. Like Mike likes to eat brussel sprouts, he'll even eat them as a snack, which I found gross. But honestly, other than knowing that people, especially kids, hate eating brussel sprouts I'd never eaten them. One day, he just asked me to try them and I did and they weren't as bad as I feared they'd be. I wouldn't snack on them, but I can eat them every now and then.
I had this friend I used to e-mail with almost every day a few years ago. I met her online a long time ago, and lost touch with her for a little while until I e-mailed her one day and we just kept up with it. She was a great friend and was really good with advice. It always took me awhile to write, because as you may have noticed, I can be very wordy when I write. When I moved in with Mike, I just stopped writing her less and less because I didn't have a lot of time, but I feel bad about that and miss talking to her.
I want to write in my journal more and also to write every day. I had bought The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creative Writing many years ago and it talked about if you wanted to be a better writer one thing was to try and write every day, especially in a journal. So I bought a journal. I was good about writing in it for a while, but then had periods of stopping and starting. I've had that journal for ten years now and there's still a hell of a lot of blank pages, and this is not an especially big journal. I don't know if I'll be able to write every day, but whether it's in the physical journal, here on LJ, or just writing stories, I want to write as much as possible.
I want to watch more movies. I want to watch more TV too, but that'll be a separate post. It feels weird to say I want to watch more movies, since I should probably cut my television time. Mike said he read something somewhere where you should only watch two hours or so of TV a day. But I usually exceed and don't see that changing, though I have cut my time down considerably over the last few years. But still there's a lot of movies that I want to see. It feels like I barely watch any movies, because mostly I'm either watching TV shows or I'm on the computer. When I'm online, I don't want to watch something that I want to pay really close attention to, so I just don't watch a lot of movies that I really want to. I still have stuff on my Netflix queue that have been there for years and years. I have three moves from Netflix collecting dust on top of my cable box that have been there for over a year. So I definitely want to get those very soon.
I'm not good on the phone or talking to my family, but I have a couple of cousins who I really love and have wanted to get in touch with, but haven't found the time but I want to at least once to catch up.
I need to go to the doctor's ASAP. I haven't even had a physical in ages.
I have more, but that's all for now.
Stacey