2013

I don't really make resolutions for the new year, I tend to make goals. This year, I want to do a lot of things, and just in the past four or five days I've gotten a lot done to accomplish these goals!

1. Pull our house together. We've been living here for about a year and a half, but have been too poor and too busy to do much decorating. With some of my trust money, I went out and went on a decorating bender at Target and Ross yesterday! We put up a bunch of the decals I bought in the hallway, and now there are PICTURES! I got floating shelves for the living room wall, a shelf to put over the drink cart that will store our wine glasses and growler jugs, and some fun little round mirrors to put around and bring some light in to the place. I also got drawers to put in the closet to organize them and an etagere for the bathroom and some new towels. All of our towels are from my freshman year of college, nearly ten years ago! We have a lot of room in the tops of our closets that is going to waste right now, so I'm focusing on getting things properly stored up there to free up space in the rest of the house.

2. Get healthy. I've been trying to do this for a while, but I've been sick for a long time and then in 2012 work was way too tenuous for me to take much time off. Part of this get healthy goal is to take my sick time and vacation time when I want/need to. It helps that Jimmy (my AD) is super awesome and great at his job, so this year I'm really going to take advantage of the decent amount of vacation I have and the ridiculous amount of sick time I have stored up! (I'm about to max out at 95 hours, so I have to use it otherwise it stops accruing!) We're talking to some friends about the YMCA up the street and if I cut back on my clothes budget (which shouldn't be hard, I'm not going to let myself buy any more clothes until I've lost 30 pounds!) and we are better about eating in, that should cover the membership easily!

3. Get back on top of my businesses. I really ignored Agape and Lemongrass in 2012 because time just got away from me, but I'm going to be setting time goals for each week to work on the website, products, and Etsy shops. There's no reason I can't dedicate an hour and a half per business each week-- I love doing both and three hours isn't that much!

4. Mail all these packages... I have a lot of packages sitting in my living room! Some of them are returns, some of them are gifts, and there are even some from BEFORE WE GOT MARRIED. Yes, I know!

5. Organize my past. I have so much stuff sitting around waiting to be put in shadow boxes, scrapbooks, and scanned in to files that I've got to get it all taken care of. I've decided that three days out of the month will be dedicated to taking a box of stuff, deciding if it needs to be kept or thrown out, and then either organizing it in a scrapbook/shadow box, or packing it for storage to be put out when we have a bigger house.

These are my goals for the year. They're ambitious, but I feel like I'm off to a really great start! I'll post pictures of the improvements soon, but only if you'll keep your fingers crossed for me!