December 30, 2019

Goals: December Recap and onto January

Looking back at December...


Christmas presents. Check.

Bake Christmas cookies. Check again.

Paint my nails. I did this for 3 weeks, solid. A new color each week. Then...they were all chipped when I went home for the week of Christmas and I took the polish off and never put any back on and my nails were annoyingly long so I cut them (and then bit them). And...well, maybe I'll go get a manicure this coming month.

Overhaul my diet. This was meant to mean that I would eat more protein and less bread.  I did keep up with it pretty well for a few weeks, then I started to get stressed out with packing/traveling. It wasn't that I fell into a huge pit of holiday eating; it was more that I just didn't want to think about it anymore.




January...

Cardio. Gawd. I hate this. I hate saying I want to start going back to the gym in January. I hate that this almost-18 month old has some serious separation anxiety issues that rear up at random times and in random circumstances.
But I NEED (NEED) the endorphins that go along with cardio if I'm to function as a happy human. There's no way around it. Scott and I may start taking him together in the evenings. Or I may just be forced to get out of the house at 8am each day, to get him to childcare before anyone else shows up and then I might have a fighting chance of 20 minutes on a cardio machine before he starts wailing.
This is so much work and so demotivating. And NO WONDER moms have trouble getting into shape sometimes. This is a hurdle that I did not foresee. THIS (THIS) is why people buy Pelotons, I'm certain.

Go to bed before 10. As in, lights out by 10pm. Not in-bed-on-my-phone or in-bed-with-a-book. In bed, going to sleep. I find this is much easier when Scott is home, versus when I'm at home with Wells alone. When Wells is asleep and I'm confronted with a few hours of anything-i-want-to-do, I tend to go a little crazy, reading things online and watching TV until 10:30pm. My definition of crazy is pretty loose.

Re-pack decorations. This seems pretty on par with what most peoples' resolutions tend to be: organize. For me, I need to take down all of Christmas, re-pack all of my fall decorations and also re-pack all of the Christmas ones. As well as dig out whatever I had up and around before I took a bunch of decorations down to put up fall and Christmas. It's a process. But it's more complicated that it has to be because I need to have everything organized and re-packed in the most efficient way possible since we're moving this coming year. I might need to buy another tote. My goal, really, is to have this part of life/the basement organized by the end of the month but we'll see. It might go into February.

And some random:

I think I may add in some yoga each day (LOL)...or maybe just 10 minutes a few times a week, in addition to my 15-30 minutes of Pilates that I really strive to do daily.  I don't put a lot into the language or the thinking or even the breathing aspect of yoga, but the flow and the stretching makes a huge difference in how I feel. I always turn the videos off before the final shavasana because it's boring. This is why I don't go to actual yoga classes.

And I need to schedule an eye doctor appointment. I'm running out of contacts. This involves calling my insurance company to find out who accepts Tricare and then finding a place nearby. Fun.

Also, I need to figure out what I want for my birthday. I have a few ideas but I tend to procrastinate this. January birthdays are hard.


What are your goals for January? I'm more into monthly goals, not year-long something-or-others that I'll forget about by February (that's a that for you, not for me kind of personal preference).