Yea, that is what people always say when a New year comes around. But I'm sick of being in the life I'm in. I love a lot of things about my life, but there's constantly a nagging in the back of my head that makes me think there is so much more that I can be. This is going to be a great year. I don't have any specific resolutions, other than the ones I'm going to write out at the end of this post. My main goal is to be goal driven, to push harder, to stop saying "someday" and to just do it, just do the things I want and stop waiting for things to be in the right order or time or whatever to do the things I've wanted to do "someday". So, without further ado, Ibid you farewell 2010. We had some great times...I bought a house this year, I got moved to a different city for my job, I had some major struggles with my husband (which is definitely something I'll be working on in the new year), I've doubted my ideas of life and love, and it's been a great freaking ride. Thank you 2010, and HELLO 2011, I'm looking forward to some great times, and some great struggles to make me an even better person.
My specific resolutions:
1. No more alcohol: The primary reason for this is to focus on my health. I've gotten to the point of working out more regularly than I ever have in my life, now it's time to tackle my eating habits and my drinking. Every Fitness expert says alcohol is the FIRST thing you should cut. So...I'm going to try VERY VERY hard to tackle my long time goal of no more alcohol. Maybe I'll start off slowly, cut back a ton of my drinking, and than, before you know it, I won't drink any at all anymore. Sort of like I did with smoking, and soda...I can do it. Just have to set my mind to it!!!
2. Goals: I will start a goal list, and write them down daily. The only way to achieve anything (so Chalene Johnson says) is to write a to-do list, and everyday to have one or two items on your to do list be a task that will move you closer to your ultimate goals. I haven't quite figured out my ultimate goals...but I'll get there. A think a daily to-do list will help me focus and I'll keep you updated on the grand scheme of my life when I figure it out.
3. Travel: I spend a lot of time in my life saving money for "someday". I'm not a millionaire, or even a thousandaire (is that even a word?) by any means, but what I do have would be enough for some travel. I'd like to travel this year, Ireland, a 7 wonder (wouldn't Egypt be absolutely AMAZING), meet Laurel's family at the Great wall...the world is my oyster! I can figure it out, once I start my daily to do lists. :) So...travel. First step...passport. If I use it, great, and if I decide to just travel in the United States, that's fine too...but no more SOMEDAY. DO IT NOW!!!
4. House Updates: Again, no more "someday". I keep adding things to my house to do list, and never crossing things off. I hate that. I hate knowing that I can do things, for cheaper than I think I can, with my house. It's time to just put it all together. Get my storage and closets organized, get my decorations up and running, figure out my scrapbook room, build things...no more "i can't do this" or "i don't know how to" or "i can't afford that", i never will be able to do anything if I don't try. What's the harm in trying. Seriously! Just do it Theresa. Buy those pieces of art you have been thinking you like, but are too worried its too "out there" and just DO IT. Just buy it, and try it, and ifyou hate it, you hate it, and you sell it, or you donate it, or whatever. What's the freaking harm. Just Do!!!!
5. Learn to Love More Fully: I keep grudges. Worse than anyone I know I'm pretty certain. Some days I feel like I'm stone cold, a bitter, angry, unloveable and unloving shrew. I need to appreciate those around me, relish in their love for me, in their positive life aspects, and even in their faults. I have great people around me...it's time I make them see and understand that I know that, and that I appreciate it. I need to just stop being bitter, and angry, and pissed with people, and the world, and just LOVE more fully. How hard can it be.
6. Come up with my "Big Goals": What's my purpose. What is my passion. What do I want to achieve in my life. Not just my job...although I love my job. There's got to be more I want. Fitness Instructor? Maybe. Business Owner? Perhaps. Mother? that could be in the cards. The world, like I said earlier, is my oyster!
Happy New Year everyone. I love you, and Life is going to be great for all of us!!!!
Friday, December 31, 2010
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Something fun to pass the time!
I know, I haven't blogged in forever, but I decided this might be a fun thing to do!
This is my website for everything NEW MOON, and they are doing a community reread of New Moon, or something like that. So, I decided to join in on the fun. Tonight, when I get home from work, I will indeed read Chapter 1 again, and than come back and edit this post to leave some of my thoughts with you. I figure I'll do it here rather than their website because...well, you people know me. Or at least...Laurel, you know me! :) haha
EDIT:
Ok, so I went back and read the 1st chapter. The whole time I was reading I was trying to find a quote that was my favorite, but there really wasn't one. Obviously, this chapter has a lot of necessary information in it, I think, that need to be in the film.
*I don't necessarily think Bella and Edward need to watch Romeo and Juliet, but it does bring up the fact that Edward refuses to live without Bella, and he would go to the Volturi if/when she is gone...it'll be interesting to see how they do that in the movie.
*I forgot how annoying Bella is. Seriously, you are 18 my friend, and yes, Edward is amazing, but you've let go of absolutely everything else in your life, and you are freaked out about 1 year in age difference. It's so silly....(that's not a movie related topic, but I had to point out how annoyed I was by Bella this time through).
*Definitely need to bring in the back story of the Volturi, which they hadn't even mentioned in Twilight. Does Carlisle talk about Volturi in Twilight...or later in New Moon? I can't remember. Either way, since the movie Twilight hadn't discussed them at all...they have lots of setting up to do prior to the party! Right?
That's really about all I could come up with. What about you??
This is my website for everything NEW MOON, and they are doing a community reread of New Moon, or something like that. So, I decided to join in on the fun. Tonight, when I get home from work, I will indeed read Chapter 1 again, and than come back and edit this post to leave some of my thoughts with you. I figure I'll do it here rather than their website because...well, you people know me. Or at least...Laurel, you know me! :) haha
EDIT:
Ok, so I went back and read the 1st chapter. The whole time I was reading I was trying to find a quote that was my favorite, but there really wasn't one. Obviously, this chapter has a lot of necessary information in it, I think, that need to be in the film.
*I don't necessarily think Bella and Edward need to watch Romeo and Juliet, but it does bring up the fact that Edward refuses to live without Bella, and he would go to the Volturi if/when she is gone...it'll be interesting to see how they do that in the movie.
*I forgot how annoying Bella is. Seriously, you are 18 my friend, and yes, Edward is amazing, but you've let go of absolutely everything else in your life, and you are freaked out about 1 year in age difference. It's so silly....(that's not a movie related topic, but I had to point out how annoyed I was by Bella this time through).
*Definitely need to bring in the back story of the Volturi, which they hadn't even mentioned in Twilight. Does Carlisle talk about Volturi in Twilight...or later in New Moon? I can't remember. Either way, since the movie Twilight hadn't discussed them at all...they have lots of setting up to do prior to the party! Right?
That's really about all I could come up with. What about you??
Monday, August 10, 2009
Out of my routine
So, as most of you all know, I've been taking little steps to make my lifestyle more "green". There are a TON of things I have not yet done..like cut out meat, or buying brand new furniture (like my brand new dining room table I just bought instead of my dream "recycled" dining room table I wanted to get), or driving to the grocery store that is seriously 1 block away.
However, I think I've done a lot of small things, and I have just realized how much those small things have added up. I made this realization after getting out of my daily routine, and having training all last week in Omaha. To see the waste that I eliminate from my life still happening just drove me INSANE.
For example, I recycle absolutely EVERYTHING I can...cardboard, glass, aluminum cans, plastic bottles, beer bottles, yogurt cups, you get the picture. This week at training, they provided us with water and juices to be poured into little plastic cups. By the end of Monday, I was ready to write names on each persons cup because each time they got a new glass when they needed/wanted more water. WTF!
Example #2...the Omaha building has just recently started a recycling program. They have one can for trash and one can for recycling in EVERY room. Which I think is awesome. The negative thing about that...if you don't work in that building, you completely and totally ignore the signs on those trash cans saying "For Recycling Only" and "For Trash Only", each with a list of items that should be placed in each can. Therefore, it ended up being we had 2 separate trash cans. The participants threw everythign away...even aluminum cans. HELLO, those can be recycled.
Finally, example #3...the person I drove with everyday would come to the car everyday with a nice 42oz. fountain drink he had gotten from the gas station. So, I asked him...do you get a new cup every single time you get a soda...and he said "yes". WTF. I said he should use the same cup over and over because A) It saves you money (granted, only like 10 cents, but over time, that adds up), and B) it eliminates waste! He says "Well, they are recyclable cups". To which I say "do you actually recycle them, or do you throw them away". Guess which he does...Yep, he throws them away...EVERY SINGLE DAY!
Now, I know I'm not perfect, like I admitted to above. I still buy clothing made out of regularly grown cotton, I still have my plastic food storage containers (mainly because I cannot find a good glass set anywhere...any suggestions?!), and I still use perfume that is full of phalates and every other nasty chemical out there...and and I'm still using some chemically filled lotions, because I can't find a good lotion recipe, although I have finally found a place to find cheap essential oils. So yes, I'm not perfect...but after this week, I'm feeling much much better for what I have changed. Now, if I could just get myself to stop using all the energy by using a treadmill!
However, I think I've done a lot of small things, and I have just realized how much those small things have added up. I made this realization after getting out of my daily routine, and having training all last week in Omaha. To see the waste that I eliminate from my life still happening just drove me INSANE.
For example, I recycle absolutely EVERYTHING I can...cardboard, glass, aluminum cans, plastic bottles, beer bottles, yogurt cups, you get the picture. This week at training, they provided us with water and juices to be poured into little plastic cups. By the end of Monday, I was ready to write names on each persons cup because each time they got a new glass when they needed/wanted more water. WTF!
Example #2...the Omaha building has just recently started a recycling program. They have one can for trash and one can for recycling in EVERY room. Which I think is awesome. The negative thing about that...if you don't work in that building, you completely and totally ignore the signs on those trash cans saying "For Recycling Only" and "For Trash Only", each with a list of items that should be placed in each can. Therefore, it ended up being we had 2 separate trash cans. The participants threw everythign away...even aluminum cans. HELLO, those can be recycled.
Finally, example #3...the person I drove with everyday would come to the car everyday with a nice 42oz. fountain drink he had gotten from the gas station. So, I asked him...do you get a new cup every single time you get a soda...and he said "yes". WTF. I said he should use the same cup over and over because A) It saves you money (granted, only like 10 cents, but over time, that adds up), and B) it eliminates waste! He says "Well, they are recyclable cups". To which I say "do you actually recycle them, or do you throw them away". Guess which he does...Yep, he throws them away...EVERY SINGLE DAY!
Now, I know I'm not perfect, like I admitted to above. I still buy clothing made out of regularly grown cotton, I still have my plastic food storage containers (mainly because I cannot find a good glass set anywhere...any suggestions?!), and I still use perfume that is full of phalates and every other nasty chemical out there...and and I'm still using some chemically filled lotions, because I can't find a good lotion recipe, although I have finally found a place to find cheap essential oils. So yes, I'm not perfect...but after this week, I'm feeling much much better for what I have changed. Now, if I could just get myself to stop using all the energy by using a treadmill!
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