Goals for 2012

In 2012, I will.....

1.  Keep exercising, whether it's 30+ minutes a day on the bike or walking.  That should help control my weight and hopefully get me off blood pressure meds!  If I can do more, I will.  I know that 30 minutes is doable based on my past experience, and it's better than nothing.  I won't sabotage myself that way.
2.  Take my daily vitamins and supplements.  Daily.  Really.  My Sis-in-law gave me a pill organizer thingy that says "Hormonally Challenged" for Christmas--made me laugh.
3.  Not stay at school so late.  Sigh.  Maybe I'll try to leave by 3 or 4 two days a week?
4.  Get back to cooking more so I can avoid frosted pop tart mornings and frozen dinner evenings.  I was doing much better the year before.  Need to do less processed stuff.
5.  Drink more juice/veggie smoothies.  They're supposed to be really good for you, and I haven't attempted to enter that world yet.
6.  Make more of an effort to talk to my friends on the phone every now and then instead of just reading Facebook status updates and feeling like I'm in touch with them.  There's something missing, and it's because I no longer make an effort to call people to actually talk to them.
7.  Try again to do something cultural at least once a month.  Better get planning for this month....
8.  Travel outside the US at least once, preferably more.
9.  Travel inside the US outside of New England.  And New York doesn't count if I go to Jul's to scrapbook for a weekend.
10.  Take Mookie and O'Malley to a new vet.
11.  Finish a cross stitch thingy.  I have about 4 different things in progress.
12.  Organize my arsty stuff so I'll be inclined to do more of it.
13.  Figure out once and for all where my &^%$# Sullivan clan came from in Ireland, and what the connection is between Charlestown, Fall River, Lawrence and Manchester NH.  They moved around way more than I thought!
14.  Read at least one complete novel in Spanish.  I started one last year.....
15.  Finally make my house livable.  It's getting there and I'm finally making decisions about the "stuff" my parents and grandparents left here.  Need to organize so much stuff.

So, there you have it.  My list for 2012.  It looks mostly doable, and I don't think I'm setting myself up for failure too badly.
I need to find some ways to boost my immune system too--I'm dying with a head cold again.  It probably didn't help that Mr. Wonderful and I spent yesterday walking all over Boston, from Charlestown to Chinatown and back.  It was such a beautiful day that we had to get out and enjoy it.  We strolled along the waterfront, thru Faneuil Hall, stopped at a Chinese bakery for my fav coconut butter buns and then had chowda and Boston Cream Pie at Durgin Park before walking home via the North End.  Lines at Mike's were nuts, so we didn't get any cannoli.  Still, it was a pretty nice day and a great way to kick off the New Year....
I'll just take some more TheraFlu and go to bed.  I have tomorrow off too, and then back to school on Wednesday.