So after an awesome NYE alone–and I truly mean that, I had the most relaxing bath I’ve ever taken ever and was delightfully tipsy from a bottle of bubbly Moscato–I spent today cleaning up my physical world. Making decisions about old clothes, rearranging some things, getting rid of the “stuff” that made life feel a little overwhelming to me in the past month or so. Now things are cleaner, organized, and in order as they should be. I feel calm. My run this morning also helped–4 miles and I pushed pace, which felt great. I might even be a little sore tomorrow when I do my yoga. 🙂
So I’ve thought about what I want from 2013. And basically, I want to make this year my bitch. There was a time I thought I’d be getting married in 2013. We would’ve been together 10 years this coming April, I thought it would’ve been cool to get married on our 10-year anniversary. And it would’ve, if I had wanted to marry him. So there’s that. Instead, I’m going to do a bunch of things I never thought I would do. Including some of the following:
- Get to goal weight of 130 and maintain it. I need to lose another 20 pounds. This is kind of a loose goal–if I hit 135 and I look and feel the way I want to look and feel I’m not going to kill myself for an extra 5 pounds because I want to be able to maintain it. Similarly, if I get a little lower without a lot of extra effort, I’ll take it. But I want to get into that vicinity and stay there.
- Get half marathon time between 2:30 and 2:45. This is on tap. Might even happen by the end of March. In which case I might revise my time goals as I plan on doing a
millionlot of half marathons this year. - Achieve Half Fanatic status. I’m looking at the 3 in 90-days benchmark. That seems totally realistic for me.
- Get my finances in order. I’m working on this and have been since The Breakup. But continuing to pay down debt and build up savings is the plan. Might be difficult given some of my other goals, but I still think I can do it. And by build up savings, I mean have more at the end of the year than I do at the start.
- Move into my own apartment. I would love to do this by my birthday. However, given that I also need to get my car registered and inspected (i.e. worked on) I’m just going to do my best.
- Take a week long road trip to VT/NH to see my friends up there.
- Learn to shoot.
- Go skydiving. Tell mom afterwards.
- Start meeting people. Join a running club. Find a book club. Go to college alumni events.
- Get a full physical. About time. I’ve been scared for years (yes, years) but honestly, my weight is coming down, I eat relatively healthy and I work out regularly. What do I have to be worried about aside from the genetic factor?
- Start dating again. This scares me, but I need to put myself out there or I’m never going to find Future Mate. And since I’m gonna be rocking it old-school-Kelly-style and going on more first dates than seconds, etc., I gotta start somewhere.