2009 goals

I hope you had a wonderful new year! The Husband and I spent it like always, at home eating junky snacks and watching old movies. This year we rented 'All the King's Men'. I had the book out of the library some time ago but couldn't remember how it ended. I think I probably just didn't read the end, 'cause I would have remembered that goofy last line.

So, I'll start with last year's goals.

Non-quilty/crafty:

• Exercising no less than 3 times per week - erm, nope. When I was exercising I did stick to 3 times per week. But there were times of the year that I didn't exercise at all.
• Only visiting the snack machine 1 time per week at work (I have to give myself something, otherwise I'd go bonkers and start snarfing everything in sight.) - another no. My buddy the snack machine should be much more resistable this year though because I am on an allowance, and I really don't want to spend money on that.
• Watching my portions (which is vague, but really what I mean is being careful to eat a single serving.) - I suppose I probably did this fairly well, though not always.

Quilty/crafty:

• Finish binding The Girl's quilt - done!
• Baste, quilt & bind The Boy's quilt - no
• Finish at least 10 of the hand-pieced blocks for the sunburst quilt - finshed 6

So I didn't do too hot last year. I'll have to try harder this year. Though I did accomplish some things not on the list:

• A winter coat for The Girl
• A winter coat for The Boy
• A batgirl costume
• A clone trooper costume
• 20 tea wallets
• umm, that's all I can think of.

2009 goals (notice these aren't resolutions!!)

• Get into better shape. I'd like my belly and thighs to reduce in circumference and gelatinous appearance, especially.
• Round robin top with guild 1
• Crayon challenge quilt with guild 2
• 6 more sunburst blocks
• finish (urm, and start!) my own dang coat
• Sandwich, baste, and quilt The Boy's quilt

I know to prolific quilters this sounds pretty pathetic. But I take what little quilting time I can get and hope to get somewhere with it.

I also have a number of financial goals:

• Fully "fund" our emergency savings account. It is currently half of what I want it to be.
• Save for our next house - I want a full 20% down payment for that sucker.
• Save for The Husband's next car
• Make at least one extra payment on the house this year (my long term goal is to have the house-no matter if we move or not-paid in full when The Boy trips off to college in 2020. If he goes. No pressure, son.)
• Not decrease 401k contributions even though I've taken a pay cut for 2009

So, wish me a sweet ride! I hope I can do better than 2008. Happy New Year to you, and may your goals resolve themselves.