Goals for February

I've always been a little bit of a procrastinator. I'm going to pretend that this time it's because I'm unique and not like everyone else and so I'm starting my New Year's Resolutions on February 1st instead of January 1st. Truth is probably closer to the procrastination bit though. :-)

I'm all set to start February now in a fresh start. I joined a gym yesterday. This isn't new, per se.... I'd been a member of a gym for 9 years. Problem is that I moved to where there wasn't a location, so...well.... I stopped going. The new gym has oodles of locations, all of which I can use, AND when I move again, if there's no location nearby, I can be out of my contract with no penalty. That's pretty cool.

I also finally got around to washing, drying, folding and hanging (those last two are the worst!) all my piles of laundry that were turning into monsters. Folks: I don't know how all y'all with families and kids and stuff do this. I mean, seriously! I am just ONE PERSON and it took me nearly all day to get this laundry done. I can't even imagine how you folks with kids do this.

In a bit of an aside? HONESTLY. Just once. ONCE in my life I would like to put on the fitted sheet corner on the bed the correct way the first time around. I never manage to!

Okay, so the two together sort of help me make up my goals for this month. I am going to state goals at the beginning of each month to hold myself accountable for trying to reach them. This isn't going to be anything over the top or crazy interesting....but hopefully it'll keep me on task and become fun to do. I've decided I must have *2 brand new goals* each month. I can keep up with old established ones, but I have to come up with 2 new things each month to try to achieve. Put a little spice in my life, I reckon.

Since I started this talking about the gym and about my laundry (exciting life here, eh folks?), here goes my simple goals for February:

1) Go to the gym no less than 4-5x a week
2) Get back on a regimented caloric diet (1200 calories/day)
3) Drink at least a gallon of water a day
4) Pee a lot
5) Organize my closets by type of clothes and then what fits/what doesn't. By the end of the month, I will donate to Goodwill whatever it is that I don't fit into anymore. That gives me the whole month to fit back into the things I like. And see? Numbers 1 & 2 should help me accomplish that! And 4 should be easy-peasy to accomplish if I stick with number 3. See? Nothing like making goals easy to achieve!

I already have my goals in mind for March, too, but we'll see how February pans out first. :-)

And Here We Go Again

For years I had a blog.

It stopped.

A year ago...about now, in fact.

Why it stopped was beyond my control. Why it never started again was my own darn fault.

It's now going to start again, thanks to a dear friend who said I should.

And so it begins....