Happy New Year!!

This year, in hopes of self improvement across various areas of my life, I have decided to make a few resolutions:

1. Lose weight
   • I am going to try to be more conscious of what I eat and perhaps more importantly, how much I eat.
   • I need to find ways to be more active, which for me is more of a time issue than anything. However there are things I can do to assist in this:
     • Starting on Monday I plan on taking the stairs at work more often.
     • I am going to start parking on the lower parking deck again, thus forcing me to take an additional flight of stairs
     • I am going to start parking farther from the stairs on the lower deck, thus forcing me to walk further to get to the above mentioned stairs.
     • I also plan on starting back up using the Wii Fit as often as possible.
2. Reduce debt
   • I plan to focus on paying off my smallest debts first and then snowball those payments on tot he next smallest debt.
3. Learn something new, either a skill or useful knowledge
   • Read a book on a new subject or skill
4. Finish reading The Bible
   • On June 1st 2009 I began reading the Bible, not for spiritual reason but rather for information and perspective, by using a website that would email me a daily reading that would allow me to finish the Bible (both Old and New Testaments) in a year. At this point I am about a month behind in the readings. As such I need to make time to read a little each day in order to complete the reading.

There I have it, nothing I think will be too overwhelming, and I think they are actually achievable. While I have mental number in regards to how much weight I would like to lose, I purposefully decided to implement that number in my resolution, lest I end up feeling overwhelmed and give up; besides any weight lose is going to be a good thing for me. I also didn’t set a solid number for debt reduction because again, and reduction is an improvement. Hopefully I can find something new to learn that will lend itself to help improve my career, as that would help the debt situation in the long run (or so I would hope), or perhaps a new hobby. Wish me luck.

This is shaping up to have the potential to be a very miserable Christmas. As of last night I have a pretty bad case of some type of flu. I haven’t been this sick in a very long time. I even had to have Tiffany come and get Kylie I am so sick. So not only am I feeling like crap, but I also miss out on time with Kylie. 🙁 I really hope Kylie doesn’t end up catching whatever I have. On top of that I think Melissa has it too. I can’t be certain, but I suspect I caught something when I went to Bronner’s earlier this week. I just hope I get better before Christmas so I can spend a nice day with Kylie and Melissa (she has to work this year, so she isn’t going back to her parents house), I even planned to make a nice dinner; ham, sweet potatoes, corn, cranberry sauce, and Melissa was going to make a pumpkin pie. -sigh- I really hope I get better soon.

Out in Philadelphia for another DR test, the only downside is that I am going to lose a weekend for this one, but at least Melissa was able to come out with me. She’s never seen Philadelphia so today I showed her around the historic district (Liberty Bell, Independence Hall, etc) but for the next few days she will be on her own. I’m not worried about the test, it shouldn’t be an issue, just time consuming. Today was a good day, though I am real sore from all the walking, not to use to that anymore. Tomorrow the test starts at 8am and goes through Monday at four. Sometimes I think these are a waste of time as many think they are not a true DR test, but that is a discussion for another time; now it is time for bed, need to be rested for the morning.