Bring on 2012...I am ready!!!
Everybody knows that you never end up keeping your New Year's
Resolutions so I don't have any of those. However I do have some plans
for 2012. We also know how much I love lists so here is the 3rd posted
list of the day...
1. Memory's Boot Camp 2012!! I have got to get this body into
shape!! Richard and I are going tomorrow to join the new Kroc Center
here in Greenville. I am really excited because it is a lot closer to
our house than the Life Center so I think I'll use it more. It also has
more swim lanes so hopefully I'll have better luck being able to swim.
It doesn't offer as many group classes as the Life Center but hopefully
I'll be able to get into an excercise routine on my own and I think
they will keep adding classes. It also has a tennis facility and since
Richard gave me a new tennis racket for Christmas I plan to get back to
playing. I'm really excited about focusing on eating better (including
lots more cooking, less eating junk) and excercising so that I feel
better and I stay healthy!! Feel free to share any good, healthy recipes!
2. House projects!! Richard and I have both big and little house
projects that we hope to tackle. Just to name a few...
- Fix the window in the guest bathroom and paint in there.
- Paint the Office and hang different things on the wall
- Refinish the file cabinet in the office so that it looks pretty
- Add built-in cabinets/shelves in the office (way down the road)
- Fence in our backyard
- Build a new back porch
- Put electricity in the shed
- Paint our bathroom
- Paint the shelves in our bathroom
- Make a shower curtain for our bathroom
- Rebuild the shower in our bathroom to make it bigger (down the road)
- Frame pics from our childhood
- Put pics in frames that already exist in our house
- Put some art up in the laundry room
- Repaint the dining room the same color
- Get a new bedside table and mirror for our room so that we can move ours downstairs
Whew! That list makes me tired just looking at it!! But it also
makes me very inspired and I can't wait to get to work!!
3. Money, money, money!! We need to be better stewards of our
resources. Both Richard and I want to make a very conscious effort to
save more money this year. We want to budget better and work on only
buying what we need, not what we want...except for special occasions.
Since I love lists and spreadsheets I can't wait to sit down and make
some plans with my cute husband for where we want our money to go this
year. I'm also going to try to get better about using coupons and
shopping good sales. I want to feel good about our finances and not be
wasteful in any way.
4. Blog. Obviously 2011 proved that I'm not a very consistent
blogger. So I want to make this thing worth it and pick it up a little
so that we have great documentation of our lives for us to look back
on! Included in this plan is to take more pictures. We got each other a
nice camera for our wedding present so I need to make good use of that
too and start snapping. I'd really like to take a photography class
this year to use the camera to it's full potential. Stay tuned for
progress in this department...
5. Thank You Notes. You would think that 8 months later I would have all of my wedding thank you notes done but you would be wrong. I still have a few left to do and I have got to get on it!! I ran out of stationary 6 months ago and fell off the thank you note train. But I'm hopping back on and am going to finish thanking my friends and family for all of the wonderful wedding gifts (and now Christmas gifts) that they have given us! So if you haven't received your thank you note from me...keep checking your mail!!
That should keep me busy for a while. I'm sure I'll think of more big ones and add them to the list. And there is always the list of things that I try to do like keep the house clean, do my quiet time daily, be a good friend, etc. Now I'm off to get started...
Happy New Year!!!
