As We Wind Down 2008

Well 2008 is almost over and it’s time to see how I did on my resolutions. Here is my new years resolutions blog from last year:

Last year was very eventful for me. Graduating, moving, marriage, starting a business. I crammed a lot of life changing events into one year, but I didn’t find it overwhelming, I wish I could have done more.

In 2008, I also have a lot of plans. It’s a sort of a make-it-or-break-it year. In no particular order, my resolutions are:

1. To eat less pizza (well, cheese in general. This is a nicer way of saying “diet”)
2. To get the brick-and-mortar Fumee store open
3. To buy a house
4. To read more and to watch a little less TV
5. To make it to work on time every day (it’s hard to do when you have no boss!)
6. To be more disciplined with going to the gym
7. To have 3 months living expenses saved in the bank, and to begin retirement savings.
8. To be a better wife

Resolutions are often laughed at because people don’t really mean them when they say them, so they are usually broken. Resolutions are like any other goal, you need to mean it, and revisit them and set deadlines, or you might as well not bother. We’ll see how well I did in December 2008.

Well, I did pretty mediocre on these.

1. To eat less pizza  That didn’t happen. I’m addicted to the pizza crack! This is my resolution for 2009 as well.
2. To get the brick-and-mortar Fumee store open I did it! Yay!
3. To buy a house Nope. And, actually no longer a goal. I’m going to revisit this in a year or two.
4. To read more and to watch a little less TV Sort of. I did really well on this for the first half of the year. Then I did bad. Then I canceled cable and did good again, but now I watch TV online, so I’m back to bad.
5. To make it to work on time every day (it’s hard to do when you have no boss!) I have to now that the store is open, so I do this because I have no choice anymore, not because of my amazing willpower.
6. To be more disciplined with going to the gym Again, a sort of. I go through good and bad phases. Right now, I don’t have time to go so I’m in a bad phase. I hope to do better and to make the time in the New Year.
7. To have 3 months living expenses saved in the bank, and to begin retirement savings. Still not done. And, still a goal.
8. To be a better wife Mission accomplished. I rock. Maybe I should cook more though…

When we get closer to the New Year I’ll post my new resolutions and my 2008 wrap up!