Here we are, end of December. How in the hell did this happen? How did we get from halfway through summer to here all of a sudden? My last post was almost two months ago. And here I had resolved to start blogging regularly. Which really shines a bright light on a more consistent problem. Let's see.. Post #1 had me resolving to exercise more regularly and work on my blogging. Post #2 had me resolving to spend more time with my husband. Post #3 I resolved to remain even-tempered and not respond to crappy people and their crappy attitudes. In Post #4 I became a teetotaller (wasn't that cute?).
It's year end, time for New Year's Resolutions. So, let's take stock. Not so much success on all fronts. However, I am determined to keep on pluggin away. Basically it seems that all I need to do is read my last four posts and voila, there is my list of resolutions. Pretty easy, huh?
New Year's Resolutions:
- Drink less and eat healthy. Clearly I was still inebriated when I made that resolution back in November because there is no way you can live with a Maritimer and stop drinking. Or maybe I am just deflecting the responsibility to another party and really it's my own fault. Maybe. Probably. Regardless, it would be wise to try and cut back a tad, like maybe only a couple of glasses a day and no rye with lunch.
- Exercise more regularly. OK, honestly.... I have put in a valiant effort. Am I where I should be? No. Have I made progress? Definitely. I even bought a gym membership and, heavens, even enjoy it. I joined a women's gym up here in Squampton and it's great. After my car accident, my back is really messed up so the controlled weights are good for rehab. I should be going more often, I should be less fat, but at least I'm going at once per week, which is a sight better than the hours I would spend thinking about going before. I resolve to attend the gym at least twice per week in the new year.
- Be nicer to people. Actually, let me define that a little bit more. Be nicer to strangers. Strangers who are rude. I think I do an OK job of being nice to the people I know and respect. It's the morons out there who don't know me from Adam (what does that mean anyway?) that choose to be rude and obnoxious. I struggle so much to be nice back. But what if it made their day that someone was nice? Would it hurt me that much to try and lead by example?
- Spend more time with my husband and friends. I'm a workaholic. I take too much responsibility for the things that need to be fixed. My new job and other responsibilities keep me busy and away alot. Since I work in one city and live in another, I spend 3 hours a day in my car, leaving little time to get out an enjoy myself. Maybe we need to move to the city, but that would hog our quality of life. We love it up here and that's the tradeoff. However, I can certainly carve away time on the weekends to pay attention to my relationships.
- Read more and learn more. This is a hard one. After going to the gym, not drinking, being nice to people, and seeing those close to me, when I am not busy I am going to read. I have over ten books stacked up, waiting to be read. I earnestly want to and crave it, I know I need to expand my horizons and perspectives. Here's my solution: audio books. I have downloaded a number of books and they are available in high quality from audible.com. Since I spend 3 hours a day in my car, why not turn that into 3 hours of "reading"? My only concern is that I am going to have to listen to a narrator with a really annoying voice. What if she sounds like Latoya Jackson or something even worse? I'm going to give it a shot. So far, I have downloaded a couple of fiction books, a non-fiction commentary on modern religion and a couple of "Learn in Your Car" language series, although I am not certain how those are going to work as I tend to be more visual, but we'll see. What a limited franchise that would be though... Learn in Your Car: Cake Decorating. Or maybe Learn in Your Car: Popular Mechanics. I guess the humanities and such are more appropriate.. Learn in Your Car: How Capitalists Ruined the Modern World.
- Get pregnant. Not sure if I need to expand on this one...I hesitate to include it as a personal resolution, given that I only have so much control over the results, and it's not something I can really do on my own. I just spent Christmas with my sister's family which includes an 18-month-old and a newborn and they really have their work cut out for them. I might say I'm a little less anxious to jump to it right away, but nonetheless will try. Practice makes perfect, and my husband is very intent on a rigorous practice regimen.
Geez. I have my work cut out for me. It's exhausting really. I wonder if I chose resolutions such as "Become independantly wealthy" or "Solve world hunger" if I would have more success? Like my hubby says, if there ain't no stakes in the poker game, noone's going to care about winning. Or some such thing. Essentially, if you've put nothing on the line, it's hard to put effort into achieving it. So I guess I need to have some skin in the game to be successful. It feels like I've already donated skin AND all my internal organs. It's just that there's no market for them. I think I need to become an entrepreneur and take more control of my schedule. See next year's resolutions.
Goodnight, dear diary.
