Starting out 2012 with a...um fizzle??

I lost a whole pound!  That's a start to a new year right?  The year changed and a pound stayed behind so 2011 wouldn't feel so sad. Ha ha ha.

I think it's a combo of NOT eating crap food, cleaning my house more and me drinking water.  Oh wait, that's like a normal thing.  Hmm what did I do then...I'll get back to you on that.

I read somewhere about resolutions and how it may be easier for you to stick to them if you make them smaller.  Like instead of saying in 2012 you are going to become a crazed athlete when you've been a couch potato your whole life, which come on if we were athletes we would already be them by now be honest, say I'm going to exercise for the month of January.  When you accomplish that, say you'll do it for February, March, etc.  go one month at a time.

You see, I know me, resolutions/goals/projects whatever you want to call 'em and I don't exactly get along.  I'm allergic to them and they call me terrible names.  Some of them accurate but that's another blog all together.  Saying for the month of January I'm going to work out is like saying I'll one day be a brain surgeon. It won't happen, I give up far to easy and blood makes me queasy....rhyme so accidental.  Besides, instead of making it simple like I'm going to work out 15 minutes a day, I make it I'll do yoga on Tuesday and Thursday, Pilates on Monday and Wednesday and on Friday, Saturday and Sunday I'll play the Kinnect and then the next week I'll switch it all up...maybe add boxing or step aerobics, no wait I can dance for a whole hour around the house to Prince, Poison and Lady Gaga (nice combo huh)...or maybe I'll add...see?? That's OCD for ya.

For me it's best if I think way smaller, like today I'm going to work out, and worry about tomorrow, tomorrow.  I have to make it a habit.  If by chance I make it a whole week I'll do a jig in my front yard.  IF I make it a month I may go buy me a new book.   That's a big IF...like the size of Texas huge.  I have to make things simple and easy peasy for me to follow, and that means I move as slow as a slug trying to get out of a bowl of jello.  But hey I persist, that's a positive right there.

Don't get me wrong I'd love to be all disciplined and start out huge but alas I can't, it causes heartburn and way too much stress, and I end up in a fetal position singing nursery rhymes to myself.

I thought long and hard about what I wanted from 2012.  Instead of having a long list of very detailed resolutions, because as I showed you above those details would be a 3 subject notebook per resolution if you don't watch me like a hawk, I am going simple and determined...and somewhat vague.

My resolutions are as follows:

To keep things light and funny, being serious is so not me.

To make each day the best it can be.

To be a better me all around.

To remember today is my focus and not tomorrow or next year.  Today is my goal.

I want Henry Cavill to be at my house every Friday night....wait wrong list.

What are your plans for 2012?