Make 2009 My Best Year Yet

Last one of the year. Wow time goes by so fast.

1. Read 2 books- 2 away from accomplishing the 20 books in 2009 goal :)
2. have a good first month at my new job
3. do a couple creative projects
4. keep my room neat and tidy
5. donate some knitted items to charity
6. figure out once and for all: go or not go?
7. fill up the remaining pages of my diary (about half of it more to go.) Next year I hope I am more diligent!
8. buy my friends gifts
9. send out Christmas cards early
10. lose/maintain weight even at this time of the year.
11. go to the gym 2/week minimum (if closed, exercise 2/week at home)

Original:
1.Get down to 130 lbs or lower:
I weighed 149 this morning…
2.Appreciate my friends more:
I don’t know how much I am appreciating them lately. There’s a lot of other stuff going on with me, I feel a disconnect right now as I don’t reallly see them or talk to them daily.
5.Knit clothing:
nope. nope. nope.
6.Read one book a month:
I read one book already, twenties girl. I am planning on reading holly by Jude Deveraux starting tonight before bed so a couple this month. All year I’ve read at least one :)
7.Take care of my body and skin: I am exercising still, very much, I am using the attitude line products which I think are good for my skin.
8.Learn sign language: I was learning one word a day for awhile… maybe I should do that again.
9.Write in my journal regularly: I wrote tonight, the entry before that was 5 days ago, yes I finally got this one under control. Now that it’s the end of the year, I usually try to fill the remaining pages.

Original:
1.Get down to 130 lbs or lower:
I have been losing weight, I was 153 and am now 147 :D I was 149 for so long and finally got over that plateau. Hope to lose some more weight, but at this rate, 130 looks out of reach for the year 2009.
2.Appreciate my friends more:
I am, I made effort with B. when it seemed useless, and now it’s paying off. I have this year, I have made a point to connect with my friends and plan outings and just think more about them. Done :)
5.Knit clothing:
ughh. I haven’t been focusing on this at all.
6.Read one book a month:
I have read at least one book each month, one more book in December and this is marked as done :)
7.Take care of my body and skin: I am exercising like mad, and eating way better than I used to. Skin-wise, It could be better, It may be time to pull out those attitude products I’ve been putting off using.
8.Learn sign language: I was learning one word a day for awhile… maybe I should do that again.
9.Write in my journal regularly: I wrote the other day, It hasn’t been a regular event this year though, my diary is half or less full.

and some extras:
meet someone special to have a relationship with:
I haven’t met anyone :(
develop high confidence:
not high :(
accomplish the little things i’ve wanted to do for years:
well losing the weight is something, must try hard
figure out what I want to be, where i want to be headed:
I got a job, we’ll start from there :)
keep space neat,organized:
ahh so disorganized, every time I try to clean I start doing other things and get distracted. I should return to my cleaning every night. I was so disciplined in September.

1. get a job!:
Rock the interview on Wednesday


2. start knitting Christmas gifts:
start knitting the socks once I am done the scarf, finish the scarf soon!


3. read 2 books:
Already begun the first of the two books, just read almost every night and I should get this done easy.


4. finish knitting my scarf =):
Knit a bit each day.


5. weigh 145lbs
eat well, and less, exercise 3x/week like I have been.


6. go 7 days min PF
find some other stress releases!


7. finish the coloring
not many pages left, just keep at it


**8. accomplish one goal from my list each week!
pick a goal on Sunday from my list (of 43things) and focus on it!

I love this time, ah the beginning of the month. So refreshing.

1. Meeting someone special to have a relationship with:
I feel almost in love with my friend, but she has no clue. It feels wrong but so right at the same time, but I am dying with this day by day.

2. Develop high confidence:
feeling low right now, still haven’t found a job or a decision about future school. Just feel blah and empty.

3. Accomplish the little things I have wanted to for years:
want to knit something I can wear
want to be in a long term relationship
want to be confident

4. Figuring out what I want to become and where I want to be headed in life:
nope as I said in the confidence area. I still don’t know and it really sucks.

5. Keep my space really neat and organized, become an organized person:
MESS..
yeah that sums it up :(

Obviously just in a bad time right now. I need to make some changes.

1. Meeting someone special to have a relationship with:
I am going out for a Halloween club night on Thursday, might meet someone there ;)

2. Develop high confidence:
I need a job and I think I will feel 100% better if I could land a job that makes me feel good about myself and my abilities, unlike my last job that I felt I did only mediocre or worse.

3. Accomplish the little things I have wanted to for years:
finally got the thing removed that was in my mouth that was annoying, so happy to get it removed.
I am going to start knitting some kind of clothing soon, so I can cross that off my list, I’ve wanted to do that for so long.

4. Figuring out what I want to become and where I want to be headed in life:
I have been asking myself this question, I am still so lost as to what the answer is. I feel like a mess right now, so first it would be good to figure some other things out then this will maybe come with time.

5. Keep my space really neat and organized, become an organized person:
well tonight I did some cleaning, but I used to tidy every night and I will go back to this because that way I kept my room so clean and felt better about waking up to a really neat space. I felt more inspired and motivated to accomplish things.

I was looking over my list and feeling like my priorities have changed since the beginning of the year. At this point I feel like to make this the best year yet would be…

1. Meeting someone special to have a relationship with
2. Develop high confidence
3. Accomplish the little things I have wanted to for years
4. Figuring out what I want to become and where I want to be headed in life
5. Keep my space really neat and organized, become an organized person

2. keep my room tidy (actually managed to do this in September)
I have to start the daily room tidy again, it’s been getting out of hand the passed couple days but it’s because of my birthday that I have been preoccupied.

5. get down to 145 lbs min. by October 30th
so it’s almost half way point and I probably weigh more now with thanksgiving AND my birthday. I must pay extra attention to this goal.

I love this time of the month, the beginning, a fresh start a chance to actually accomplish the goals I set out to accomplish. Last month I did not lose those 5 pounds..as usual. So I must think of a way to accomplish my weight loss goal.

October: