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Admit it.  You totally saw this post coming.  Right? 

I haven’t posted in several days for a few reasons.  1….that seems to just be my pattern of behavior this past month.  2….I really did just want to slack and focus on family time and take a breather for myself.  3….I really wanted to put thought into what I want for the new year to come because I NEVER make New Year’s Resolutions.     So, the following is a list of my goals for 2009 with an explanation behind some.  Others, you really don’t need an explanation of.  This list is in no particular order.  I just numbered them to separate them.  So without further ado here are my goals.

1)  Lose the same 30lbs I lost 2 years ago that I managed to put back on.  I know losing weight is one goal on several people’s lists.  I worked really hard 2  1/2 years ago to lose 30 lbs.  I worked out 5 times a week and I tweaked what I ate.  I was so proud of myself and vowed to never be back where I am.  I felt so sexy and vibrant and most importantly I felt healthy and strong since I was lifting weights in my workouts.  Imagine how I feel now looking in the mirror at the same image that startled stared back at me years ago.  I’ve gone through feeling sick and depressed about it.  It dawned on me recently that feeling depressed about it doesn’t magically make the weight disappear again.  I will have to actually work at it.  This is something I plan on sharing heavily with you guys.  Should be fun.

2)  Earn more money.  This is another popular goal.  Specifically I want to make more money online and even more specifically I want to make money with this blog to prove to myself that it can be done.  I’ll be honest here.  My first goal is to be making $4k a month online.  So as this goal unfolds I will keep you all in the loop as well because if I can make this work I want to share my experience with others so that they can do the same.  This in turn leads me to my next goal.

3)  Gain more RSS subscribers.  This will help me achieve goal #2.  If you haven’t subscribed yet go click the RSS button on the top right of the blog.  Now this goal in turn, leads me to the next one. 

4)  Blog everyday or every other day at the least.  This is going to be a challenge for me.  As you’ve seen thus far, this is not a normal practice for me.  However, I can’t tell you how many days I thought to myself I want to blog today and just didn’t sit down to do it.  I need to do it though, not only to achieve my goal but for the reason I started the blog; personal therapy.  This is so much cheaper than going to a Psychologist.  Trust me.  I would know.  I don’t hear the voices anymore so I must be doing a little better.

5)  Make decisions and sticking to them.  I have a very difficult time make choices.  I know the many reasons why this is.  I want to tackle that.  I want to make my choice and live with what joy or consequence it may bring and accept it, instead of being afraid before I even make a choice.  I often put the pressure on my husband or someone else to choose for me.  I’m done with that.  I need to take responsibility for my life and deal with what I choose.

6)  Be a better daughter, sister and friend.  I have had a lot of, well, crap that has happened in my life and especially the last year or so.  I constantly get sucked into me, myself and I.  Recently I have found God in my life and this has opened my eyes to the fact that it’s not all about me.  So I need to be the one to reach out more to my family and friends and put myself out there more.  You get what you give into the world.  I need to give more, not to get more but, just because giving is the right thing to do.  Speaking of giving, watch out for my next goal….

7)  More sex.  Oh yes I did say that.  Do I really need to explain more?  I should hope not.

8)  Pass less gas in front of my husband.  I was polite there, but yeah…fart less for the politely challenged.  This will no doubt help me with goal #7, and I’m quite positive it will help with the global warming issues we might be having.  It annoys my husband to end…of course you know I do it sometimes just for the sheer enjoyment of watching him be annoyed.  I’ll have to find other ways to get such merriment.  Mwahahaha.

9)  Read more.  I plain and simply would like to read more books.  I feel like my brain is turning into mush.  It needs to be stimulated more.  Instead of watching so much T.V. I want to read so I have some T.V. going on in my head.  I need to get those synapses flying again.  I’m thinking 1 book a month or every other month.

10)  Finish scrapbooking where I left off.  I stopped scrapbooking a while ago.  My oldest is 6 and I haven’t put ANY of his stuff together.  So, you know my 5 year old daughter’s stuff hasn’t even been looked at.  This is important for me.  I love, love, love to look through my pictures all the time and remember a lot of speical moments, even if they are just silly ones around the house.  I want to put all these in the scrapbooks I intended so that we can look at these memories together.  Additionally, I want the kids to be able to look at all this stuff years from now.  Scrapbooking is therapy for me as well.  Can you imagine all the hours of free therapy I’ll get trying to put 6 years worth of stuff together.  WOAH

11)  Be a better mom.  Ok, I know this one is vague.  I just want to tweak my parenting skills.  I want to have house rules and chores set for them.  I spend a lot of quality time with them, so I want to add new activities to our time…change it up a bit.  I want to read more to them also.  I want to be more consistent with my disciplining.  Overall, I want to tweak my mommyness.

12)  Do what God directs me to.  Recently, last Sunday actually, Pastor was talking about the 168 hours we have in a week and how important this number is to us.  She challenged us to really think how we are spending that time and how some of us don’t know what we are meant to be doing in this world.  Many of us, myself included, have just kinda glided through life so far without real direction.  So she said we really need to ask God to give us a word about what we need to be doing in life and more specifically what we need to be doing to serve him.  Basically we should seek out what our divine purpose is in life so that we can feel more fulfilled as a person and as a Christian.  I’m excited to learn what He wants of me.

13)  Finish my book.  I currently am writing a book.  I recently got to meet my biological mother for the first time in 29 years.  So I’ve been writing about the story behind why we were separated to begin with, how we found each other, the growth of our relationship before we got to meet in person, the actual meeting and afterwards.  Writing this book has been another outlet for me but, I keep pushing the project to the side for other things.  I really want to have this done this year, more specifically before summer is here.  That’s a tight deadline.  I know nothing about writing books or editing so if there is anyone who’s willing to take an editorial look at it for me for free when it’s done, that would be great.

There you have it.  What I want to accomplish in 2009.  Many of these are goals that I will be talking about throughout the year.  I hope you stick around and check back frequently. 

If you are a blogger who is reading this who has also posted a list of goals, feel free to leave a comment with a link to your site.  Share the link love and put my link up for this post as well.

Be safe tonight!  Happy New Year to all.  Let’s make it a prosperous one.   See you next year!!!!!

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