New Year To-Do List

Every year I make a mental list of "resolutions" that I would like to attain in the "new year." 

Seeing as this has been a fruitless method of attaining said goals, I have decided a blogged To-Do List would be best. 

I am a big fan of lists, and I think I will have a lot more luck with this.

To start things off, I have a lot of short term goals that I think will be easily attainable, as well as some long term goals that are going to be quite the struggle to keep up, but I am not going to be terribly upset if I do not attain them all, just so long as I stick to it.

1. I will no longer eat/drink  foods that I KNOW I am allergic to. This includes: turkey, chocolate, caffeine, dairy, processed tomatoes, potatoes, oranges, hot peppers, coffee

2. I will drink more water.

3. I will eat more fish and less red meats.

4. I will keep my car clean for the entire year, cleaning it at least once a week, because it drives me nuts that I am finding things in it from 5 years ago....Really.

5. I will pay at least half of my student loans back, because that will make me feel 39048230948 times better about my financial situation.

6. I will drop my weight to 160lbs and maintain it by vigorously working out at least 4 times a week.

7. I will get a real job and/or enroll in grad school, because I can't stand being stagnant.

8. I will blog at least twice a week, because I love it and it makes me feel better no matter how tedious it may be.

9. I will not use facebook for the entire year because it is a waste of my life and I don't need to know what everyone I have ever met is doing at any given time.

10. I will actually finish my little brother's scrapbook that I started over a year ago, but come on, 11 years is a long time period to scrapbook.

11. I will read at least way more than I already do, because I have a plenty of time for it. 

12. I will attend more live events, because I have become quite the hermit and would like to be more social. I don't have school anymore, and my job is definitely not the happening place, so I need to make an effort to get out and have experiences.

13. Relax. Whatever it takes, I need to relax. The past year has taken a toll on me stress-wise and I need to calm down. I'm not sure how I'm going to do this just yet, but I am going to do it.

I believe I am capable of accomplishing at least most of these things, if not all. I have a lot more free-time on my hands now that school is over, and I am going to work hard to live my life and be happy.

Happy "New Year"...I'm still not sure I agree with the whole new concept, its just time after all, and time is always new because we can never go back, but sheesh, that a whole different rant.