New goals

I know – I can’t believe it either. Two blog posts in about 25 hours. Whoa, setting a record.

Since the new school year starts for some this week, others next, and for some lucky quarter system kids, mid-late September, I always try and set some new school year goals. This is mostly because after San Clemente, I usually want a fresh start when I get back. I stuff my face during that week and I always say I need to detox (from food, drink, whathave you) so might as well add in a couple other “resolutions” while I’m at it. And of course with my favorite day of the year just around the corner, I’m about to enter my LATE 20’s – holy Toledo, I thought if I put it in writing, I’d be more likely to achieve some of them.

So while I was sitting on the beach last week during vacation, in between downing licorice and mock-frosted-circus-cookies, my wheels began turning on what are some things I can focus on during my detox/renaissance. Here are some things I came up with…

First, there’s always eating healthy and making sure I exercise. The exercise is actually the easier thing to do. I have gotten into a habit of trying to do something active once a day, but I do want to start incorporating toning and pilates/yoga into the mix. The classes that my gym offers aren’t super convienent times and I would always rather do cardio, but people tell me I need to find my Namaste. Where the hell are you dammit?! Now for eating, I always have the best of intentions on Sunday night (usually right after I had dinner and too many sweets). And if I can make it to spin in the early Monday morning hours, then I can usually make it to Monday afternoon, then the afternoon lull gets me every time. Now I am trying to write down everything in advance (to also help with grocery shopping) so I would stick to the plan. We shall see how this goes, because even this morning, I had my mid-morning snack with breakfast. I was a hungry kid. Which leads me to my next goal…

Cooking. My nemisis. I like the end result of cooking, but the process is something I have no patience for. So far, I have only really tried to cook a few solid meals since I have been living on my own. Although, I have mastered the balsamic vegetable pitas and egg sandwiches, I don’t consider those full on “cooking” but more like “I can make this in 10 minutes or less” meals. So I think adding in a couple more recipes into my repitour would be good. I get Cooking Light so I think I am going to take three recipes out of each monthly magazine and try those out. Probably on the weekends, cause let’s face it, I hate cooking during the week. Maybe I’ll post pictures, but seeing as I hate pictures of food, it’s not likely. Or perhaps a compare and contrast…that’s more likely if it looks NOTHING like the image in the magazine.

Next we get Italian. This one always seems to be on my list. My trip to Italy was 6 years ago, and I was able to communicate (albeit slowly) when I got back, but lost it pretty quickly. Lady Di has got the Italian Rosetta Stone CDs so I think I am going to borrow those and whip out my Ciao! textbook from college to work on my conjunctions, my to-be verbs, and how to say “Make me some pasta!”

And finally, it could be that I am sick of my closet, but I am going to try and incorporate jewelry into my every day wardrobe. Now I always wear the same earrings, and usually wear the same bracelets and I don’t think that will change (unless of course the mood strikes me) so really I guess that this only applies to necklaces. Oh well start small.

Oh and blog more so I can keep up writing. J

I am sure there may be more things to add to the list – more blog posts, holler! – but let’s start out with these. 

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