Tuesday, January 1, 2008

On the road to 2008

Greetings on this first day of 2008! I'm glad to see that we all survived 2007, and hopefully 2008 will be filled with bigger and better things for everyone! 2007 was a pretty uneventful year for me, aside from getting pregnant (that was pretty eventful!), but I know 2008 has big things in store!

I suppose this is about the time that I should be dragging out "The Big List" again (and I will be, hold on!) and looking at what on it needs to be done still. Then I would call those my "resolutions." However, I'm going to simplify my "resolutions." They're just goals I would like to attain at some point, and now, with a baby on the way (any day now!!!) I have more incentive than ever to achieve them - especially the exercise ones. So, here is the big list:

My Big List
1. Take up yoga again
2. Meet my 10% goal, plus 6 pounds.
3. Join a gym or yoga studio and go!

4. Take ballroom/latin/swing dance lessons
5. Start writing in my prayer journal more
6. Finish Final Fantasy VIII, IX and X
7.
Start nursing school
8. Walk more
9. Watch less TV
10. Read: The Cloister Trials, Quarter Life Crisis, The Color Purple, Random Passage, Knitting Under the Influence, Friday Night Knitting Club, and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
11. Talk to Stephanie and Josh once a month.
12. Get some nice professional pictures of John, the baby and
I.
13. Get to 2 more Mike Previti concerts!!!
14. Paint my living room, bedroom, stairway and computer room.
15. Purchase a 5 or 6 foot tall book case for the computer room.
16. Learn to read knitting patterns
17. Knit a blanket
18. Find a new job/return to school for a career I want to pursue
19. Do yoga 4 times a week, at least.
20. Finish the scrapbook for my dad.
21. Train for, and successfully complete a 5K road race

Now, lets look at what needs to be revamped:
1. Meet my 10% plus 6 pounds. I had started Weight Watchers around this time last year. After getting some medical stuff straightened out, I had finally lost my first 10 pounds... just before I got pregnant. So I am going to revamp this goal, a lot with a few others that are similar to it. So now, we group together this, the dance lessons, and the walking more and we get: Return to the same dress size I was in when I graduated high school. This may involve some combination of the things above, it may not. I'm not sure yet.
2. Watch less TV. I'm pretty sure we can team this one up with the books I want to read. So why don't we call it "Less screen time, more reading."
3. Train for and successfully complete a 5K road race. Some of you may wonder why I'm separating this one from the losing weight one. Well, quite honestly, it's a different matter, in my mind. I would like to have the accomplishment of doing something no one else in my family has done, nor would try to do. Also, I look at it as a way to get myself into shape. I don't consider being in shape and losing weight to be the same thing. I have seen plenty of people that are skinny that are not in great physical shape. I would like to be able to model a healthy lifestyle for our child(ren?) and this is the first step to being able to do that.
The rest of these can pretty much stand on their own, but I'm not necessarily in a rush to do some of them. So, lets look at my newly revamped list:
  1. Return to the same dress size I was in when I graduated high school.
  2. Less screen time, more reading.
  3. Train for, and successfully complete a 5k road race.
  4. Do yoga 3 times a week. This goes with the being fit thing.
  5. Nice professional pictures of John, the baby and I (like THAT will be hard) :-)
  6. 2 more Mike Previti concerts.
  7. Home improvements: Paint the stairway, our bedroom, and stain the deck. When we have time, of course.
  8. Knit a blanket. By myself this time.
That looks much more manageable for the new year. I guess I can start with the yoga thing tomorrow. I do have a prenatal DVD. I spent the money on it. I should be using it. The blanket thing won't be hard either. Now that I'll have a baby to knit for, plus a friend that is pregnant, I'll be a baby items knittin' fool!

I guess that's about it for now. I wish everyone a happy and healthy 2008!

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