My New Year's Resolutions

Published on January 12, 2007 By momijiki In Blogging

I wasn't going to do it, but I can feel I am on the cusp of making them even if I don't directly acknowledge that's what I'm doing.

Here goes:

1. Lose 6 g. That's probably realistic. At one point in my life I would have been a bit annoyed to weigh that but now I can't be bothered to make the effort to lose more than I really need to. And more importantly, I think those 6 kg are a sign of some lifestyle changes I need to make. I used to love working out and now it doesn't fill me with the same joy it used to.

In order to lose that 6 kg I will...
a) stop eating toast and butter in the morning for breakfast and the occasional lunch. (Bye bye tasty but calorie laden Danish bread

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get back into going to the gym to lift weights and do some cardio
c) keep doing the running program I started and stick to it rather than jumping ahead and hurting my knees again (my cardio fitness is there but my knees really don't like it so I'm going back into it with a walk/run combo I got from Runner's World )
d) Yoga in the morning if I don't have a sub job (this helps the knees)

2. Finish three portfolios of work. I have a lot of stuff done but need to sit down and pull it together

In order to do this I will...
a) do a lesson from my photoshop book once a day

finish my proofs

3. Organize my slides, prints and disks

I've just got to figure out in what order I am going to do this! Yikers.

4. Finish my book and submit it to a publisher or an agent. I had some friends read my partial mss again and got some really encouraging and inspiring feedback.

In order to do this I will...
a) take spider solitaire off my computer. That game is killing my time management.

set a more solid writing routine for myself. I seem to be doing not to badly with my photography work habits. I think because I hated my characters for a bit and didn't know how to get through a certain part for a bit.

5. Do the fly-lady routine for household management. Locamama had an article and a link to it and I checked it out. It's got a lot of good ideas.

In order to do this I will...
follow the fly-lady baby steps and purge my closests and cupboards to make best use of my very limited space.

6. Get my earthquake preparedness kit together. I have a list I downloaded (from Flylady).
In order to do this I will...
a) get stuff from the list or locate it in my household and put it in that nasty huge backpack of my husband's.

let my husband just get more stuff from this security company called Secom.

7. Figure out a timeline for this stuff to get done. The earthquake kit is going to get done this weekend, unless Hubby decides to get everything from Secom. I'd prefer to at least try to use any extra stuff I have lying around the house first.

Okay. Just haven't been able to think of 10 but some of these are HUGE and enough on the plate is enough on the plate.

Comments

foreverserenity

on Jan 12, 2007

This is a full list! I hope you get to do them all. I have a large list too that I have yet to put to paper but will do so sometime this weekend, I hope!
Good luck with the publishing!

Dr Guy

on Jan 12, 2007

This is a full list!

And ambitious! I wish you well in making it come true.

Locamama

on Jan 12, 2007

I had to laugh about the spider solitaire. I lose hours to that game too. It is a big time sucker. I am not totally on the flylady system but it has helped me. I definately always do a load of laundry everyday which helps me keep up on things. And I always shine my sink and that alone has helped. I would like to be completely on the system. Baby steps right.

Is your book a photography book? Just wondered.

I hope you have success in everything. I've never felt and earthquake. How weird to really feel the earth move under your feet. I can't even imagine it.

momijiki

on Jan 12, 2007

I've never felt and earthquake. How weird to really feel the earth move under your feet. I can't even imagine it.

I've been in a couple and have been blessed that they have been little more than the earth just giving a little shrug. Two years ago there was a pretty large earthquake north of Tokyo in an area called Niigata. Beautiful mountain area. Sadly, the quake ruined a lot of agricultural infra-structure and the area may never recover. Some people are still living in temporary housing that was built because they have no cash (or not enough) and they don't have money to get their rice farm going again. The watering system was ruined on a large scale. And this was not as big as the Kobe quake in 95. Still, when the Niigata quake happened, we could feel it in Tokyo. I remember being out with friends at the time and feeling a bit dizzy and then the earth shifting. We all looked at each other and knew that it had been bad somewhere.

Between that and watching the aftermath of Katrina, it seems stupid not to have at least the basics on hand. But to be honest, unless I am home when it happens, a kit won't do me much good. If it's bad enough I need a kit, it's probably bad enough that I wouldn't be able to get back into my apartment to get it. Still, it's better than being a total jackass and not getting anything done.

Is your book a photography book?

It's a romance book. I started it a long time ago (in 2002) and then put it away for two years because of really stressful teaching situations. I have started some other projects but I really want to finish this one first. It has been a real challenge. But I can look over it and different versions and see how my writing has changed and improved. And then I had some major plot problems that I was trying to write through. I wrote but didn't advance the plot. A friend of my husband just read it and gave me some really good feedback and somehow his critique stimulated the grey cells and I now see a light at the end of the tunnel and a way out of plot problems. The stuff I had been doing to try to slog my way through irritated me because I knew it was garbage.

The book might never get published, but I know what I like and what I can be satisfied with. Still, if I want to make a career (and I do) from writing romance I can't take five years or more to do a book. The next ones will be quicker. This one has a real stiff learning curve.

Thanks for all the well wishes FS, Loca and Dr. G

momijiki

on Jan 14, 2007

Ok. I got rid of the Spider Solitaire (and the other games) and I haven't had toast since I posted the article. I really want to eat it, though.

I love toast as long as I don't burn it. I have a 40% burn ratio when it comes to toast.

momijiki

on Jan 17, 2007

Still toast free. But really missing spider solitaire when I'm doing some work and my computer is taking ages to process an image or during printing and it's not quite long enough to get up and do something else.

Slowly and surely getting rid of the clutter. It's getting a bit easier to get rid of stuff. Just tossed a lot of old video-tapes of TV shows from 1997. Fun to watch them because the commercials are hilarious. Kind of freaky, too, because if I play the video tape all through, I get several old comedies, commercials and news. It's like a time warp. Looks like we're going to get rid of some play station 2 games that never got played a lot.

Did yoga yesterday and did my jogging this morning and really got to enjoy a misty rain.

Don't feel like I've made much headway on my image stuff despite the time put into it.

Just got to keep those baby steps in mind.

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