A Year in Review
It’s been a long time since I’ve posted on here and a big change I made on this blog is the name of it. With that I also chose to delete some posts to give this blog a bit of an overhaul. For my first post of the year I figured it would be nice to do a year in review of my blog post from last January on how well I did of following my 2009 New Years Resolution. It’s been a crazy year filled with it’s ups and its downs.
2009 Resolution Review
1. Be More Out Going – I succeeded in this with many thanks to some new friends I made over the summer. Every Sunday night I go out to Colorado Cafe in Watchung, NJ. I was hesitant at first with the whole line dancing thing or dancing in general. I loosened up though and fully enjoy dancing. I still have a long ways to go a year ago I couldn’t even imagine myself doing such a thing. So with that many thanks go out to my BFF Erin, Jesse, Krystin, Katie, and Sam.
2. Loosen Up – Certainly have loosened up a whole lot over the course of the year and yet again thanks to the friends I listed above. But there’s this is something that will always be a journey so to speak. Jesse would certainly agree to that with me. But in the end I met this goal so to speak.
3. Return to my original weight - I was almost there, back in August. But I got lazy stopped running, stopped doing Wii Fit. I quickly went from 170lbs back to 190lbs. But I’m getting back out there in the game. If I was able to lose 20lbs during the month August I can certainly lose more and maintain the weight I want to be at. So this one was not met.
4. Save Up Money – Not met at all. One thing after another I had to shell out money for different things or just didn’t spend/save wisely. I won’t be leaving Raritan Valley till next Fall and Full Sail is absolutely out of the question. But that’s besides the point. This saving money thing is important.
5. Car Almost Completely Paid Off – I didn’t shave a year or two off nor would I have been able to. But I can say it is almost there. I believe I have another two years and then I’m done. This was met I would say
6. Higher Grades – Not met honestly. I got a B+, B, C and failed my Physics course.
7. Get My Band into The Studio – Not met, we didn’t practice for months. We got together back in September and agreed to continue as a band. So at the moment it’s taking things one step at a time.
8. Blog Name and Domain Name – Blog Name met, Blog Domain Name not met. Money has been tight so maybe this year I’ll be able to do this.
9. Be a Better Mixxer – Not met at all, and probably never will be. I’m finding it very hard for me to be active.
10. Finish my Card Game – Not met at all. But this spring I will be working on it and play testing so hopefully I can get this wrapped up.
Twenty-Ten New Years Resolution
All of this is in a specific order. From top priority to least priority.
1. Save Money - I’m really trying to save this time and to help me I signed up for mint.com. I’ve got my bank account and credit card account linked. So now I can set myself a budget since I can see everything in real time so to speak.
2. Lose Weight - Almost succeeded in 2009, this year I’m going to do it. I proved to myself in August I could shed 20lbs this time I want to do it again but lose even more weight and maintain it.
3. Grades - No more BSing or making certain classes a priority. I have to do well, I need to. It’s already bad enough I failed a class last semester. It’s time to turn that around and finish up.
4. Dancing - Proved in 2009 that I actually enjoy it. Now it’s time to improve it, and I don’t know maybe just suck it up and ask some one to dance without the fear of rejection? I did it last night after my friends kept saying “DO IT!” over and over again. While there was no success there just yet it won’t bring me down.
5. Social Interaction - Succeeded with this in 2009 and I can only continue to improve on it as mentioned in the review.
The list is much shorter this year, but I figured these were the essentials. Happy New Year everyone and I hope Twenty-Ten is good to all of you! I know so far it has been for me, my older brother just got married over this past weekend, only more good things can continue to come. When the road blocks come I’ll hit them with full force.
