A little accountability is what I'm lookin for, so here it is.
New Year's Resolutions. At our house, "we" actually love these things. "We" get this from Handsome Husband (who has a long history of a. setting goals b. keeping goals and c. being a big Steven R. Covey fan). We have an FHE devoted to them each Jan. Each child (myself included) is expected to come up with a reasonable amount. Handsome types up said goals and posts them for everyone to see. . . we even have quarterly reviews, folks. It's the real deal. So I just try and get excited about them since I know they are inevitable. And we all know that excitedness makes everything much more fun. So as not to be boring about 08 goals, I thought this year I'd organize them in accordance to the old Bride's poem:
"Something Old
Something New
Something Borrowed
Something Blue"
Something New
Something Borrowed
Something Blue"
Immediately upon this organizational strategy's inception I realized that the color for 08 is certainly not Blue it's GREEN. Green doesn't rhyme with "New" so I had to change it to something else. "Lean" won out (much nicer than "mean" and more humble than "queen").
To Review,
revised poem now reads:
"Something Old
Something Lean
Something Borrowed
Something Green."
revised poem now reads:
"Something Old
Something Lean
Something Borrowed
Something Green."
Hmmm. . . .Old.
That's easy. I'll just pick all those old "daily maintenance" goals I always do like diet (aka eat like Kara) and exercise (aka run like Reachel. . . no, no, no that's setting the bar waaaaaayyy too high. Yoga like Reachel. Much better.)
Something Lean?
Lean meats? Diet's already covered. Lean arms???? No, not any leaner than yoga affords.
Lean Budget? Yes!! That's it. Let's be lean with the finances. Keep your money instead of giving it to Target. Yes, very nice goal.
Something borrowed. . .
Reachel mentioned that she's
a. going to go to the opera more this year and also
b. going to bake better bread.
I will tag along on these two.
(Envision with me pulling my fresh made bread out of the oven, lofty and golden, tears in my eyes. . . crying because Madam Butterfly is playing in the background or is it because the bread is just that beautiful?)
Finally, something green.
Reduce, Reuse, Recyle.
I will do more of all of these.
(Did you know the city will give you a "composter" for free? Free fits into the budget! Okay, so its really just an old trash can that they drilled holes in, but it may be worth considering)
AND
I'm giving up having my milk bagged at Fry's.
Pathetically, this is a big deal to me.
They always ask: "do you want your milk in a bag?" I always say "yes, it is much easier to take the milk into the house when it's bagged."
But not anymore. From now on, I'm saying "no" and making an extra trip from the car to the house.
It's a sacrifice, yes. . .but I could use the exercise.
That's easy. I'll just pick all those old "daily maintenance" goals I always do like diet (aka eat like Kara) and exercise (aka run like Reachel. . . no, no, no that's setting the bar waaaaaayyy too high. Yoga like Reachel. Much better.)
Something Lean?
Lean meats? Diet's already covered. Lean arms???? No, not any leaner than yoga affords.
Lean Budget? Yes!! That's it. Let's be lean with the finances. Keep your money instead of giving it to Target. Yes, very nice goal.
Something borrowed. . .
Reachel mentioned that she's
a. going to go to the opera more this year and also
b. going to bake better bread.
I will tag along on these two.
(Envision with me pulling my fresh made bread out of the oven, lofty and golden, tears in my eyes. . . crying because Madam Butterfly is playing in the background or is it because the bread is just that beautiful?)
Finally, something green.
Reduce, Reuse, Recyle.
I will do more of all of these.
(Did you know the city will give you a "composter" for free? Free fits into the budget! Okay, so its really just an old trash can that they drilled holes in, but it may be worth considering)
AND
I'm giving up having my milk bagged at Fry's.
Pathetically, this is a big deal to me.
They always ask: "do you want your milk in a bag?" I always say "yes, it is much easier to take the milk into the house when it's bagged."
But not anymore. From now on, I'm saying "no" and making an extra trip from the car to the house.
It's a sacrifice, yes. . .but I could use the exercise.
7 comments:
I love it, Becky! You win for the most creative goal-setter of the year. You made it all work so nicely. I'm proud to be your sister-in-law.
I can't believe you started your own blog and didn't tell me...I had to hear it from Courtney!!
I am so glad to be able to read all your fun stuff! You amaze me.
It was nice to hang with you a little at nursery today!
I love the goals - very creative indeed. They all seem workable and I promise you'll get used to not having your milk bagged!
Great goals, Beck. Brian and I aren't the best goal setters/achievers. Maybe we need to take some lessons from Rich.
I don't always have the milk bagged, sometimes I think it's easier to carry unbagged, so from now on I'll make a conscious effort to have it unbagged. That's easy.
onehm--I was too bashful to draw attention to my little blog to the master blogger of my whole town!!! But glad you found it and enjoyed it :)
So great with your goals. I tend to follow the philosophy I recently read in a magazine, I think it was supposed to be a Japanese idea, I can't remember the word, maybe you could ask Richard. But you just had to choose one tiny little step of a thing that you were sure you could accomplish and not give yourself a list of things you were likely not to be able to do. But I love your creativity. Most of these green things are just what my mother or grandmother would have done anyways, nothing new. They didn't have paper towels in those days so didn't have to chose to give them up, and they got their milk straight from the horse's mouth so to speak and didn't have to have it unbagged from Fry's.
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