Check-in on my New Year's resolutions:
1. LESS THINKING, MORE DOING. Not there yet, but still repeating this to myself. It helps.
2. "I also resolve to take better care of myself this year: try to get to sleep by 10 p.m. every night, get more exercise, find clothes that fit my post-baby body."
Some progress on this front, but I've been slipping for the last couple of weeks.
Sleep: For a while I was getting to bed earlier. Lately I haven't been, but I need to. I'm a morning person. If I get to bed by 10, I lose that hour at night when I'm too tired to do anything but read or watch TV, and I get extra time in the morning to putter around or exercise.
Exercise: I'd like to work up to exercising every day, but I've consistently been exercising at least a few times a week, which is an improvement.
Appearance: I cleaned out and organized my closet, so I can see at a glance what I have and am more likely to grab something that I don't mind wearing. Having enough clothes that I actually like and that fit me properly requires more progress. At least I got rid of the piles labeled "Clothes that nobody outside my immediate family must ever see me wearing" and "Clothes that I've never liked but wear anyway" and "Clothes that will never fit me again." (Okay, I kept the second pile, but have it tucked away in a bottom drawer.) I've been wearing jewelry more to dress up my drab work wardrobe. I even managed to wear a scarf as an accessory! Two times! But I can't bring myself to ditch the comfortable clunky shoes. I am trying to improve my appearance from the ankles up. Actually, my pants that still fit are kind of saggy and I don't want to get them tailored when my weight is still in flux. But I have definitely improved my appearance from the waist up. That's something. It's only been a month and a half.
And I'm adding some lesser goals for the year:
- Actually use that improv class Groupon (by June 2012)
- Enter annual town apple pie contest (September)
- Practice piano consistently enough to:
- Sight read bass clef
- Know where the keys are
- Play Fur Elise
- Learn how to wear a sari by myself so my mom doesn't have to dress me
- Develop a budget
- Start learning how to draw
- Do something around the house that involves using a drill
- Cook Indian food
- Restore dinosaurs to my blog template
- Cut my hair short*
- Finally decorate the blank walls
- Finally make that photo book of the kids
12 months, 12 things to do.
* I actually had this in my drafts folder for two weeks, during which I got my hair cut! JW's immediate reaction: "You look like somebody's mom." He backtracked and said, "I mean, it looks nice," but I am not letting him forget that.
* I actually had this in my drafts folder for two weeks, during which I got my hair cut! JW's immediate reaction: "You look like somebody's mom." He backtracked and said, "I mean, it looks nice," but I am not letting him forget that.
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