I don’t know if I want to call them resolutions, or challenges, or what.  Maybe “things I will try harder at.”  That might be good.  Let’s see….  I think there’s a lot that I’m thinking about.

• Drink more water (three of my camel backs a day…. 68 ounces or so)
• Carry water with me everywhere. I almost broke down and bought a Diet Coke the other day when I was out running errands because I was so thirsty.  I did not.  I haven’t had Diet Coke (or anything else with fake sugar) since Sunday when Megan was here.  12 days.
• Eat less crap! I’ve been eating cookies and stuff like they’re grapes!  I know that it’s because of the holidays, but still, it’s awful.
• Eat more good stuff.  Eat more vegetables (I eat enough fruit).  I’ve recently found that I love butternut squash, and Megan made those awesome baked vegetables that were fantastic!
• Keep exercising every day.  I’ve been kicking butt at exercising, and when I can’t go to the gym, I run outside (except for when it’s too damn cold - like today we’re at 12′F!!).  I want to get up to maybe 5 miles a day, that’d be cool.  I need to map out a course.  I should do at least one hour at the gym.  I need to do more with strength training, but I want Eric to make me up a plan that I can do at home with the stuff I have.  I have a Pilates VHS that I want to start using, now that we have a new VCR (my dad had to buy a new DVD-VCR combo after taking apart our old one - there was a BattleStar Galactica DVD stuck in it). Oh, and Megan has The Firm in her room on VHS I can do!  She made this great little schedule for it and everything, and never used it.  I’ll one up her and actually use it.
• If I’m going to be out and about, I should carry good food with me.  I can keep a bag of apples in the car, and because it’s winter, they’ll stay fine for weeks!  That way, when I get hungry,  I’ll have something good to snack on.
• Continue to cook dinner for my parents. Do more interesting things, not the same old over and over.
• Start keeping a medical journal! I have had soooo many medical problems in the last 7 years, that I won’t even list them.  Of course, I have no records of my own.  Nothing that lists how I feel, my symptoms, my medicine.  Nothing.  That’s stupid of me.  I need to start.  I do have a great day by day journal of how I felt going off of my medicine in May when I had my radiation.  I kept track of how I felt, what I was doing to keep my spirits up, and how much I weighed (cause going off the medicine can cause weight gain).  I also noted how I felt on a scale between poor, good, very good, and excellent (or some such scale).  In the new one, I’ll have it be a number scale from 1-100.  You have more options with a 1-100 scale than a 1-10, because no one would ever choose 6.7, but they would choose 67.
• Read more.  Read both for fun, and books that relate to Mental Health. I could read books about family therapy, or working with couples, or working with kids who have ADHD.  Books that I will learn from, not just escape reality from.
• Be more attentive to my wasting of energy. This morning, it was sunny in the living room, but I reached to turn on the light.  There was no need; I could see perfectly (I stopped myself, and didn’t turn it on).  I should focus on things like that, and not waste energy when I don’t need to.
• Keep it up with the 10,000 steps. If I can’t do 10,000 every day (because sometimes it’s just impossible), I would like to average 10,000 steps a day in a given week (so at least 70,000 a week).  There are some days when I’m at 20,000 for one day, and the next I don’t go over 5,000.  I’m okay with that, because the two average out to be 12,500.  That’s pretty good!
• Continue with keeping lists on my calendar of what I do for steps, and what I do for exercise. It’s great to keep track of things.  (If only I could find a Twilight calendar… they’re sold out everywhere, and they cost $60 on eBay and Amazon.com.  Seriously.  I’ll have to settle on Harry Potter.  I don’t think they make X-Files ones anymore).

I can’t really think of anything else.  There’s probably more I’d like to work on, but I can’t think of anything right now.  I’m too tired to think.

I think I’m going to do January as another Buy Nothing Month.  Soon I’m going to be sans employment, and I’m worried about spending money.  We’ll see, I guess.

My sister is doing Buy Nothing New Year.  She can buy used stuff, but nothing new.  That doesn’t include food.  Hopefully, she’ll blog about it, but she hasn’t posted since December 8th.  She’s a deadbeat.