cliche, but personally necessary.

Happy new year, blah blah blah and all that jazz. I am generally not incredibly stoked about the whole new year thing. But this year is different for some reason, maybe it's the fact that I am settling into my life as a mom, or maybe it's the fact that I turned 21 in this year...last year I mean, and I am really settling into my life as an adult. Maybe it's both. But this year, I have resolutions, and I have every intention of following through with them, as I have chosen plausible resolutions. I overly organized them and realized that by my categories, I have made it a lot more possible to actually complete them!

There are different kind of resolutions, there are overall goals for the year, deadline goals, and actual habit changes--the most important, in my opinion. I have several from all of these categories.

Consider this my self-agreement, because I will continually update you all on these goals as the year passes, and keep a checklist! I feel that by making this agreement publicly I will be held accountable. Today is 1-1-11.

In 2011 I plan to:

*RENEW, REUSE, and RECYCLE as much as I can because it is not only incredible for the environment, it is good for my soul, and a great money saver!

*Complete the Slim in 6 video series, and adapt to a healthier lifestyle. I get lazy and quit diets and work out regimens regularly which is why another one of my goals is to:

       *BE MORE ORGANIZED--I am a great organizer, I just need to use that skill more in my overall life.

*Save money in an organized manner.

*Make lists! LOTS OF LISTS! My fiance and I have agreed upon actually using a grocery list, because it will save us a lot of time and money, for obvious reasons-plus I am a shopaholic. But we will also keep running lists of things we WANT and things we NEED. 

*Give myself a monthly "planning day" to check up on myself and get plans, schedules and such together.

*Take more photos and videos (I will soon be writing a blog post about this goal separately to share my passion for the importance of this goal to me)

*Do a weekly dinner (and maybe a movie-I want to watch more movies)

*FINALLY finish making our apartment a home by

     -decorating

     -completing a guest area and an art space

     -reupholster furniture that needs some TLC

*Write stuff down in a notebook! I make a billion notes to myself, and I always lose them. I want to keep notes of different events, quotes, anecdotes, ideas, etc. to reflect on later.

*Be a better bookkeeper

*Pay it forward.

I am not so much excited for the new DATE year as I am for a fresh slate. Happy 2011.