because, good grief, I had a lot of goals last year....
Let's review....
1. Continue to work on a healthy diet and learn more about vitamins and nutrition. One trick I'm learning is to make sure I eat the good stuff before I eat the "extra" less good stuff. When I do this, I often am not hungry for the empty calories. I do this with the girls and it works with them. Why didn't I think of trying this for myself sooner?
Check. I've become more "freaky" healthy in the eating department. I am really not eating much added sugar now. I eat fruit, but I don't count that as sugar as long as I'm eating the whole fruit (with all the fiber and good stuff that is packaged with it naturally). I could go into a ton of details here, but then I'd never get done.
2. Hang more pictures on the wall and just get more organized (e.g., loft and our bedroom)... (Maybe start to figure out new furniture for our bedroom--don't panic MWH!.)
Um..... Failed miserably. We did order a new couch for our bedroom.... We need to figure out night stands and headboard. The couch should come in the next month or two, and then we'll organize more. It'll be a big exciting new thing.
3. Try to not get stressed out at work. Figure out how to have fun at work again. The first 5 years I worked where I work were THE BEST ever. I guess that the next 6 needed to be hard and not so much fun to make up for the first five. (You know, balance and all.) When I teach again, try not to get stressed out by it. I am getting better at it (because of experience) so I will make it a goal to have a little more fun with it and not let it consume me quite as much.
Did okay at this.... I'm working on not taking on too much stuff. I don't currently have any projects that I LOVE so it's easy to not be too sucked in. I miss teaching... I miss it a lot, but I have a lot more time when I'm not teaching. If OLU offered me a class, I'd jump though....
4. Workout-wise, I'd like to add more strength and flexibility training. Adding a yoga class would be super good for me.... or, just taking some classes (to get the basics) and then finding a good video. I'd love to add in a ballet class, but I know it will be really painful. (I used to dance and it is much harder than working out....) The last few nights I've made myself stretch for a few minutes before bed. Maybe I can get into a routine and stretch at night....(or find a yoga class). I need to make myself do weights after my aerobics and zumba classes ... Maybe I can start with 10-15 minutes after T/Th class and work up from there?
I definitely added in both. The Pilates I'm doing is super good on strength and flexibility. I can do the splits on the right side again! I need to do more upper body strength training. I'm doing 10-15 minutes after Zumba sometimes.... I need to get more religious about this.
As a related point to this goal....I don't know whether I want to get certified to teach Zumba or not. I can't decide. This sounds so wimpy, but my numbness is limiting me and bringing me down. I am so tired after a class. It's not like I'm not in good shape tired, it's my numbness tired. I can feel it in my head and in my body. My body feels a little less connected to my brain as it recovers, my head feels really fuzzy, my hands are more numb, and I get tingling in my legs. It goes away and I think it's just because I get so warm when I work out, but it's a problem. I know I can't push it as hard as I want to push it. Maybe I'll get in better shape, and not notice so much, but I don't know. Maybe I just felt it more (last Friday) because I hadn't worked out that much over break.... I'll give it a couple more months, do a little more reading about the problem, and think about what I should do.
Still debating........
5. Work on being more green. (Yea, I use re-usable shopping bags, SIGG bottles (so I don't have to use plastic water bottles), a re-usable coffee cup, and do some other things (I should do a post about this) but I know I can do more. I need to think more about this. If you've made decisions about how to be more "green" what are they? Please post a comment if you have ideas!
I think I did some... there's always more to do, but when I make a change, I make it for good, so that has to count.
6. Spend more time reading with the girls. MWH usually does bedtime reading. If I pick a chapter book and read with the older two during the day (like HP) (or some of the fun ones we've gotten for Christmas) it will be good.
Did okay... didn't always read more, but I've been cooking with the girls more and painting toe nails and sitting down with them while they watch a tv show a little more. I will continue to work on this.
7. This is a tough one... Spend less time just goofing around online. I can still be online a lot, and I will, but I think, especially when I'm not teaching, that I need to limit myself here and do more #6 and being silly with the girls. I want to read more too (more fun, novel-type books. I read lots online and I learn lots online, so that kind of being online is okay, but sometimes I find that I've spent 1/2 hour looking at pictures in Facebook of someone I don't even KNOW when they were at a party. That seems a little, ummm, unnecessary to me...) (Does this happen to anyone else?)
Failed pretty miserably at this one.... I am reading more fun novels--thanks to the iPhone!
8. Send in more blog posts from my iPhone. I need to get better at texting on it. I figure the only way I will is to practice. If I make myself send in one post a week from the iPhone, it ought to help to post a blog entry once a week from the phone.
I no longer hate texting on the iPhone. I still prefer the keyboard, but I used to feel dizzy when I texted. That is gone now and I can text just fine.
9. Spend more time with friends and family!
Can always do better, but we had some great pool parties last summer (Thanks P & L!) and got to hang probably more than usual.
10. Keep learning! (I want to read a lot more about brain research, exercise and aging.)
I am a learning machine. I don't need to make this a goal because that's what I do.
11. Spend more time hangin' with MWH. When we do get to hang, we laugh a lot. Sometimes, when the girls are around, they don't know why we're laughing, but they start to laugh anyway. I love it.
We didn't get enough date nights/afternoons....so we'll need to work on it this year! I <3 you MWH!
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