snapshots of our life.

I always feel incredibley corny every year when I got to write my New Year’s Resolutions.  Main reason being because I am NOTORIOUS for not following through with them.  Goes along with the whole might not follow through with the plan but there WILL be a plan theme from a few posts ago. 

Something feels really different this year though.  I think a large part of it has to do with the fact that I feel like my life hit a fork in the road where I was forced to make tough decisions which would lead to life further down the road and more forks that I’m sure I will come across.  (Did that make any sense?)  I feel happy and content right now because I’m not just sitting around talking about something, I’m finally following through with things.  I feel like I’ve done a whole lot of soul searching the past few months and I’m at a good place right now.  And after a few months of struggling and not feeling content and not feeling grateful (which I don’t feel like I have been lately, I feel like I’ve taken a lot of things for granted), I’m so ready to move forward and start fresh.  Which I guess is why this new year feels different. 

So with that said as a preface to this post, my goals for 2008 are:
1. Find something I am grateful for everyday.  Craig and I have started a journal to each other that we are going to be writing in the next year.  Once a week we will both write something that we appreciated of the other person or that put a smile on our face.  We’ve already done it this week and it put a smile on my face.  I think it is so easy to get caught up in the everyday and forget what is important.  And at least after a year we’ll have it all in writing to look back on when we’re old and gray with grandchildren.
2. Finally lose the weight.  I’m not setting an amount on it (although I have that goal in my head even though I “say” I’m not setting it), I just want to feel healthy.  I’m off to a good start, I’ve been working out the past 3 days.  Once I get past the first week where I grudgingly get on the treadmill it starts to get easier each day. 
3. Blog/journal more.  I stopped blogging as much for a few reason, none of which are important now.  But I started to feel a little boring once the house was completed and I didn’t have any remodeling updates and things started settling down into the ordinary life.  I had this idea that no one would care to read it.  The other night I went back to October, November, and December 2004—when Craig and I first met and read it all over again.  There were a few things here and there that I had forgotten about and I had so much fun rereading all of it.  So while I know that my business is out there for everyone out there to read and I don’t share too much personal information–I started this blog for me to look back on.  So I’m going to try to do a little better with it. 
4.  Shoot for all A’s my first semester in school.  I can’t even begin to tell you how excited I am about school.  If money wasn’t on the top of my list of concerns I would probably be even more excited about it.  Change makes me nervous.  That is pretty much a given if you know me.  I tend to panic.  But I’m not so much with this.  It’s a different feeling when you’re going to school because you want to and not because you feel like it’s what you are suppose to be doing.  I want this. 
5. Debt. Get out of it.  Enough said.  So I can stop worrying about money and stop paying on a credit card that I have NO CLUE where the money went on it.  Blah. 

There are many other small ones mixed in.  But those are the five I’m looking forward to getting “checked off” the most.