It's a New Year!

We started our new year with a warm, raining day.  Went to lunch at Cracker Barrel with some money we got for Christmas, ordered more checks and Abby got to see her friends at the nursing home again after being away for a week with a sore leg.  It was nice having days off for the holidays and the days I did have to work were slow because a lot of others were off.  I got a new memory verse contest made for Sunday School--a dinosaur race track.  I'm pretty sure the kids will like it.  I found some small plastic dinosaurs at Marc's on clearance so bought them up to use for this.

Overall, 2014 was a good year for us and I really accomplished all the goals I set.   I am hoping this year will involve less doctor appointments and more strength training.  I am happy to have one less pill to take and feel good.  We are hoping the Patriots win the Super Bowl this year, but if not them, I'd like to see the Bengals, Lions or Panthers win it because none of those teams have been there for ages and they are all animal teams so I can't help but root for them.

Here is my short-term "to-do" list:

Get our computer tuned up/optimized.
Go through my old pics that I backed up on CDs and load some missing ones on my computer.
Watch some more Hallmark/Up movies.

Must say, life is good!  What about you?  Got any plans for 2015?

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How Did You Do On Last Year's Resolutions?

I always like to review my resolutions/smart goals from the beginning of the year to see how we did. Do you remember what yours were? How did you do? Here's how we did:

Karen's:

Have morning devotions in den each morning (which means less blog commenting).
YES, I did quite well on this one. I am in the process of reading the Bible through for the second time and it gives me some direction. I'm also jotting down what I read each day.

Have more fun--do something new or go somewhere new each month.
Nope, I didn't do too well on this one. I can't think of anyplace we went this year that was new for us. I'm going to have to use this one again for 2011 and see if I can do better.

Work out at home at least three times per week.
Nope, that lasted for about two months. Too many distractions! I do plan on working out at least three times a week in 2011 and rejoined Fitworks so that I can go before work or at lunch time. That works best for me.

Eat healthy--stay away from the donuts!
Almost! I was doing very well on this one for the first two months. Then I changed floors at work and thought I should be social so started eating donuts on Fridays again. I did limit myself to only one instead of three though so that was improvement at least.

Be spontaneous at least 5 times.
Yes, I did these:
1) skipped along down the hall before work
2) sing on my way to the bus stop
3) Went to the Browns Family Day Scrimmage on a whim
4) Started our book blog
5) made a snowman on my day off
6) cookie decorating at the rainforest 
7) I was very silly at puppet practice after the Brown beat the Patriots--I was in such a good mood!
8) Took Abby for walks on the spur of the moment

Make someone's day at least once a week.
Almost, I did try to do this. At least I thought about it practically every day. I'll try to improve on this in 2011 too!

Gerard's:

Spend less money on clothes.
Yes, done.

Both:

Read at least 50 books in 2010.
We both accomplished this one by a lot: Gerard (98), Karen (89)

No Pop in 2010 except at parties.
Yes for Karen, No for Gerard.

It rained all day today--so much for being active.

Smart Goals

I found a good post about making New Year's Resolutions at Life's winks, blinks and tears...: Life's Winks - New Years Resolution. We need to think more in terms of goals that are measurable, simple, attainable, and time bound.

Here are the ones I came up with:

1) Take the stairs between floors at work rather than the elevator.
2) Read at least 50 books again this year.
3) Do not spend any more on any marketing endeavor for my book.
4) Keep on learning new things and continue to post them weekly every Friday on this blog.
5) Continue to write down the sweet things Gerard does.
6) Install CommentLuv on my blogs.
7) Join that gym and actually go 2-3 times a week.