HaPpY nEw YeAr!

Hello friends! Happy new year! Welcome to 2010. A new year, a new decade, a fresh new start!

My holidays started out very busy. Gareth and I hosted Christmas day for the first time so our holidays were very busy to start out with. After christmas things calmed down, and we relaxed, slept, visited with friends, and just enjoyed our time. It was great! During that time I had the chance to think about my life right now, where it is, where it's heading, and where I want it to head. I thought of some key things I can work on, update, think about, to make my life a little better. You could say they are New Year's resolutions, but since I do this from time to time anyway, you could just call them improvements ;)

Work

1. Be at work 10 minutes early every day. This will give me time to get my breakfast ready, my tea poured and brewed, and for me to be sitting in my desk ready to go for 8 am.

2. Dress professionally Monday-Thursday. Jeans on Fridays only, and even on jeans' day remember I'm going to work, not to a football game. It's really easy for me to start wearing jeans and hoodies to work every day as a lot of people dress like that. But their jobs are different than mine, and I am in a role that I should be portraying a professional image.

3. Be thankful I have a job. I have an income. I have stability. Stop complaining about how crappy it is, because some people are a lot worse off than me. Think of the positives.

Health

1. Eat how I want to feel. I want to feel good, so I need to eat good. When I eat junk, I feel like junk.

2. Workout to make my body strong, able & capable. Start thinking first and foremost about making my body healthy, not just thin.

3. Workout on a regular basis. Out of bed and to the gym 3 mornings a week, minamum. This makes me strong, makes me healthy, and wakes me up.

House

1. Put my laundry away!

2. Keep my stuff tidy always, instead of once a week. It's easy to put the mess away as we go.

Number 1 Goal

Save for New Zealand! When I want a new top, new shoes, new whatever, think of New Zealand. It's so worh it. When I was there before, these are the views I experienced (just in case you're wondering why this is so important):

Our goal is to get work visas and be there for a year. So this year will be prep for next year! It will also be to have a great year.

We have some exciting things coming up. My sister in law and her husband are having a two week holiday in Banff comin up (they're English) so we're heading to Banff next weekend. That's the most exciting!

I am going to sort through some photos from the past little bit and I will share some with you soon.

Oh ya, and I'm going back to my original goals on here, so I'll be blogging more!

xox Shauna