When I was in college, I had a LiveJournal account. I used it pretty seriously for maybe a year or two and then dropped it like a bad habit. Blogging is so much easier now. Look how fancy my page looks for god's sake! (You would appreciate this too if you were as horrible at computers as i am.)
Anyway, here's my general situation. I have a boring, time consuming job that unfortunately gives me way too much money and benefits for me to leave it. And every time I consider leaving it I just think to myself "Won't I hate my new job just as much?" I mean until I win American Idol or dog walkers start making 6-figure salaries, I probably won't love what I do. It's just a job. Nothing against what I estimate to be the 10% of humans that actually love what they do. I wish I could be one of you. But my accounting background has made me too much of a realist. In spite of all of this, I truly believe I can fully enjoy my life and be generally happy provided that my out-of-work experiences are good enough to make up for what happend during business hours. With the end of "busy season" upon me, I will finally have time to start having a life again. And I'm going to share any awesomeness I come up right here.
To get it started, I'm going to make a general list of things I think I'd like to accomplish (at least once I can be back in Charlotte for more than 2 days at a time):
- Start going back to Yoga at least once a week. Preferably twice. I have a tendancy to be pretty quick to rage when at work, and this will hopefully take care of that problem.
- Maintain gym regimen: general goal 5 days of cardio and 2-3 strength training sessions a week. One of these years I'm actually going to buckle down and lose the 10 pounds I've gained since somewhere around the time I started drinking legally.
- Cook dinner 4-5 times a week. I can always do this in the summer but have trouble motivating myself during the crazy times. This will also help with the weight loss situation.
- Volunteer at the Humane Society at least once a month. I love it there. I can't say I'm a big fan of children, but I have a serious weekness for cute, furry little animals. I had a 2-3 times a month habit last summer, but again busy season foiled my plans. I haven't been there since January.
- Get back into wine. Foolishly I thought drinking a glass of wine each night was a waste of calories. But I've decided to stop caring about calories and just do what I want and hope that it'll work out eventually. Also, I love wine and it makes me calm down after not-so-great days at work.
- NEED to actually organize the get togethers with my girlfriends that we're always talking about putting together but never actually do. Once a month is a fair goal I think.
- Force Blake to have a date night at least once a month. We aren't married, but we live together, and to him that means that every waking second is a date so we never have to actually go out anywhere. This is an incorrect assumption.
- Travel more. A lot more. I'm currently trying to save up money (and roll over vacation time) to take my dream vacation - spending a month in Italy. I'm not getting any younger, so now's the time. Also I'd like to take some weekend trips here and there.
- Watch less TV. Seriously, my DVR box is completely out of control.
- Other general awesomeness. This is, of course, open ended.
Let's embark on this little adventure and see what I can come up with. Woo!
