One year ago...

One reason I love blogging is because it's easy to look up a time and see what was going on in our lives.  That's the only way I remember anything for our Christmas card.  I have to look through all the past months on the blog to see what we did.  Wellllll, one year ago I made a huge resolution.  A biggens.  I'm not sure what possessed me but I really, really wanted to make it happen and I didn't.  I made it to February.  Blast.  I have a few here and there since then but nothing significant.  This blog has kept a better record of my year than my actual journal.

Huge tangent...isn't it cool that today is 1-1-11?  Yeah, totally awes.

Part of me is really disappointed in myself and wants to just give up and never make any resolutions ever again because then I don't have to feel guilty if I don't make it happen.  That, however doesn't work for me because I've realized that I'm a goal-oriented person and I constantly have to have something to work towards or life starts to seem a little directionless.  I need to have a resolution.

It's easy for me to sit back and think about a huge list of things that I can do better...but just because I need a goal to work towards doesn't mean I need 200 goals.  Danny and I have set a couple goals together as a couple and I've put some thought into what I'd like to improve on...sooooo here's hoping that next year I won't have to link this post to a new one because I didn't actually follow through with it...make sense? I just don't want to do the same thing next year and feel lame about it. Try to keep up with me.

* Plan ahead

(This will help me with my chronic lateness and last minute stress.  It was also help with eating better).

 * Get organized 

(This is pretty self-explanatory.  This will also reduce stress.)

* Use my time wisely

This is a huge commitment for me.  I'm going to limit my computer time for email and facebook/blog reading.  I'm better than I used to be but I know I can be better.  My temporary goal is to limit my "recreational" internet time to 1 hour a day. I'm still allowing myself internet time for recipe searches, preparing my lessons for church and school and other necessary things...but I know I can use my time more wisely.  

Okay, I'm going to publish this post.  I'm a little nervous.  Who am I kidding--I can always come back and delete it later if I need to...heh.