But I do have goals.
Keep my patience with my little Sweet Pea. She'll be 2 next month, and she's still a dream. But she's also 2.
Keep better touch with my friends and family. Remember that just because I don't have much to tell doesn't mean they don't want to hear from me.
Since about Thanksgiving I've dropped 10 pounds. I'd like to keep the weight loss coming. Better health, more energy, someday getting off so many meds, and possibly getting pregnant again without the help of a fertility center are the rewards.
Spend less, get more from the money I DO spend. Since we want to move this year to an area that will add a highway commute to my life, we decided it was prudent for me to get a car newer than the 1996 I'd been driving. So I have car payments again. I don't WANT to have car payments, so I'm going to try to pay it off ASAP. And I want to live a more frugal life in general. (Plus, I want to hire movers and cleaners when we do move.)
Be more creative. I have been collecting books on different crafts lately, but what I really want is to BE creative, rather than copy other's creativity. But I can learn from them and let their ideas compost in my brain. My own ideas will eventually grow.
Move, and make our new place a Home. Wherever we go, I think we'll be there a long while. We're really not looking to buy a home any time soon, so making our new apartment ours is high on my priority list.
Find a way to live with my job, or find a way to leave it. I don't think I can leave it, so living with it is probably it. My job isn't onerous. I like the people, and when I have work to do, I like the work. The problem is that I often don't have work. It's an on-call kind of position, but we're on-call in the office. The quiet days trying to keep myself busy can be maddening.
I'm sure there's more, but that's enough for the middle of the night...
Happy 2011! May it bring only welcome changes and pleasant surprises.
