"Resolution number one: Obviously will lose twenty pounds. Number two: Equally important, will find sensible boyfriend to go out with and not continue to form romantic attachments to any of the following: alcoholics, workaholics, commitment phobics, peeping toms, megalomaniacs, emotional fuckwits or perverts." -Bridget Jones Diary
Seriously though, I do plan on making serious strides in becoming healthier- not losing weight. I do need to drop about 10-15 pounds, but I really need to just focus on eating healthier and exercising. To achieve this, I WILL be working out in the gym at my complex, and I will be cooking homemade food more often.
In conjunction with resolution number one, I am again cutting sodas out of my diet. I did this for 2 years in high school, and have never felt better. I lost weight, my skin looked fantastic, and I was just...more energetic.
I will focus on myself for once, and not on making everyone around me happy at the expense of my own happiness. I stayed in a failing relationship for 1.5 years after I realized that I was unhappy- I will not repeat this mistake. I am completely fine on my own, and don't need a significant other to complete me.
I will also focus harder on academics. Jeff's poor study habits rubbed off on me last semester, and I can't afford for that to happen again. Graduation Dec 2010 baby!
I would also like to work on my relationships with my friends, and spend more time taking care of them. I have an amazing core group of friends from high school and OSU, and I never want to lose them. I am making some great friends at GSU (well, they've graduated!), and I want to continue to get to know them better. :D
I will show my family how much I care about them, and focus on making sure I am creating good, lasting memories with them. My grandparents are getting feeble, and it makes me extremely nervous. I lost my grandfather in Sept. 2008, and look back now and wish I could have known him better and spent more time with him. I don't want to regret missing out on how amazing they really are.
And lastly, I want to start going to church again. I stopped 4 years ago, due to pressure from Jeff. I want that support system back in my life, and the structure it gave me. It just feels like I'm missing something.
"I do think New Year's resolutions can't technically be expected to begin on New Year's Day, don't you? Since, because it's an extension of New Year's Eve, smokers are already on a smoking roll and cannot be expected to stop abruptly on the stroke of midnight with so much nicotine in the system. Also dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second. " ~Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary
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So since you've listed your resolutions...I'm adding a couple of mine :)
ReplyDelete1: Hang out with the awesomeness that is Lauren more often. I have no problem with driving up to Atlanta to hang out. Movie nights and cooking home cooked meals sounds like an amazing idea to me.
2: Lose weight. I need to make myself a better me. Once I get over this funk that I have and stop coughing up my lungs, I'm going to exercise at least three times a week since I no longer have school as an excuse. Also, after this last case of Coke, no more for me. Unless it is in the form of a Coke Icee :)
3: I want to get into grad school so stinkin' bad. If it doesn't work for grad school then I'm going to apply to any museum that will have me.