2013 Resolutions

Resolutions for 2013

I make resolutions every year, some I keep and some I break. I wonder sometimes if I should make them because of the pressure to complete them. My husband calls them goals, and maybe if I looked at them that way I would achieve more of them.

So my goals for 2013 are as follows:

1. Health – every year, every month, every week I say I am going to eat better, exercise more….and for a short time I do but then I fall right back into the bad eating and laziness of not exercising. It is stupid cause I feel better when I eat better and exercise but it is easier to do and be the other way. Now with having diabetes my health is really a factor. So, my first goal for 2013 is to get healthy, all of us…no excuses, no laziness.

2. Family – Spend more time with my family instead of sitting on the couch on a Saturday or Sunday, I want to take more time to get out and do things with my kids and husband. Which leads me to my next one…

3. Parks – Visit every state park in Florida this year I want to visit every state park in Florida with the kids. Some I have been to but it has been a long time.

4. Faith – this year I will incorporate faith, God and church into our life more. I don’t want to be an occasional church goer anymore, and I want to instill faith in my children.

5. Organization – I say I am going to be better organized and stay less cluttered and 2013 is going to be the year it happens.

6. Friends – I will make more time for my friends this year. I live back in my hometown where a lot of people I grew up with still live yet I don’t take the time to make plans with them. That will change this year.

7. Charity – I will be more giving this year, and teach my kids this as well. I will help random people as well as give to my charities of choice in 2013.

8. Football – I love professional football. I know quite a bit but would like to know more and understand the game better. I’d also like to do fantasy this year, more then just the Perfect Challenge the NFL offers. And I would like to go to both a Miami Dolphin and Houston Texans game when the 2013 season starts.

9. Save – I will save more money this year. I will put myself on a budget, stick to it and put money in savings and away for retirement. I will get my kids to save more. I want to reestablish the envelope system and have them put money in for spend, short term goal, long term goal, save and charity.

10. Complete – this year I will start something and complete it. I will start 30 day challenges and not complete them. I will complete things this year.

Good Bye 2012

Dear 2012,

My you certainly had your ups and your downs didn’t you? And as soon as we thought it was finally mellowing out, you had something in your back pocket to whip out.

Although you weren’t the best year, your certainly weren’t the worst for me either. You were definitely kinder than 2009, 2010 or 2011; and far better than 2008.

And you definitely threw your blows. And some blows were brutal enough to make people fight back. Some blows caused us to turn the other cheek. Some of those blows were mere taps, while others were simply devastating. Each of those blows affected all of us in way or another, whether we were direct recipients of the blow or not.

2012, you went by fast. Every year I say the years seem to go by faster but you really flew. It seemed like you started 2012 and now BOOM you are gone. With all that did or didn’t happen during your time, maybe it is better you didn’t linger.

So, to you 2012, I say farewell. You will be remembered. Please tell 2013 to be kind.

Sincerely,

Me

Without Internet

Kind of defeats the purpose doesn’t it? Blogging without Internet. Thank goodness for my phone this week, cause I might have more serious withdraw than I already am. See this is what happens when your husband waits till he is out of town to schedule things like new internet providers and cable tv switches. I think he does it on purpose.

In many ways that scares me. I do a lot of things that are internet based and this week is teaching me that I need to disconnect more from that. I am learning things about my kids I didn’t know, I have been involved in church, I went to volunteer events, and have gone out with friends.

I know too many people who don’t disconnect at all. Their phone is constantly in their hands to text or tweet or Facebook or message in some way shape or form. You never know if they are paying attention to you or what’s going on because of that. It is distracting to everyone involved and I am noticing now, plain out rude.

Till my internet is back, this is what you get, because have you ever tried to type a whole blog post on a cell phone? Not fun. Not that I am a regular blogger anyways.

So you might see posts from me about watching tv (FOOTBALL) on Facebook or Twitter, but mostly I’ll be playing board games with my kids.