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2013 Resolutions

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The New Year has come and gone without much fanfare for this blogger.  New Year’s was spent with close friends, at home and in bed by 12:05am.  It was a great, relaxing and inexpensive New Year’s.  As 2012 came to a close that night I realized that I had yet to make any resolutions.  I was in shock.  How could I have forgotten about the most important part of my year – planning!  Well here it is a few days late but here nonetheless. 

2013 promises to be the best year on record. Not just for me but for my fiancée. We are getting married this year. 9 months and counting.  All of my resolutions this year revolve around my wedding – getting healthier, saner and less stressed.  In the past few years I haven’t been able to keep many of my resolutions except for reading and writing because I love to do those things. Even though I haven’t read 26 books every year I never gave up and won’t this year.   Goodreads.com makes that resolution easy.  They have a 2013 Reading Challenge that tracks all of the books you have read and tells you how far you are ahead, behind or if you are right on track.  I will be adding that widget to my blog later this week so everyone can see how I am doing with that resolution. 

Short New Year’s blog but I want to start working on these resolutions and to do that I have to start writing other blogs, reading more books, eating healthier and becoming a better me. 

 

Resolutions:

1.       Read 26 books

2.       Write 26 blogs

3.       Reach goal weight of 160

4.       Save money for our own place

5.       Don’t fret about money as much. It does not control me, I control it.

6.       Stay within my daily points with Weight Watchers every day of the week (except for the weekends).  If I start to stray, remember the wedding.

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