Day 2 Whining and Progress

Day 2 of the New Year's Project. It is not easy to accomplish goals when you have to work full time. Also not a fun thing to do, when you live in a subfreezing tundra where it gets down to negative -25. All your energy goes into staying warm or making sure your ride starts in the morning. I kid you not this is what my poor car has to sit in outside. And today instead of focusing on accomplishing my goals this year I called my dealership to see if A) I could get a automatic starter to help me and my car out or option B) see if I could get a block heater, which would help my car out more then me. Both were not options because they would void my 7 year warranty. And I will not do that, it has proven too handy already. Sigh. Okay now that my rant fest is done AND I can't get what I want. I have accepted it. Damn American Instant Gratification. It spoils us, so when we don't get what we want it seems like such a disappointment.

After the whole car diabolical, I focused on my goals. I made it to the gym today to get down to my goal weight. I put in a good 50 minutes and I weighed myself today, I have 30 pounds to go. When you think about that in the short term it seems impossible but when I think about it in the long run, I only have to lose half a pound a week to make that goal. I also was thinking about ways I can slim down. One way is to give up soda, I drink mostly diet but switching to a juice at lunch might give me more energy and is a health er alternative. I can also figure out where to cut calories if straight exercise doesn't work. I figure I would give it a month or two to see where I am weight wise before I change another thing.

For my Goal to get my finances in check I have checked out "The Millionaires Next Door" by Thomas J. Stanley. Not only will it count as an intellectual book for my goal to read 12 intellectual books but it will help educate me on what I might want to do with my finances. I am hoping to have it read by the end of January if not sooner.

I also made my list of what I want to accomplish this week around the apartment which includes cleaning, grocery shopping, waxing the floor and the table. Not necessarily fun tasks, but someone has to do them and since I live alone, it has to be me. But it also includes doing something fun around MY TOWN. I am planning on going to the MY TOWN Historical Society this weekend. It is not 27 places to see on the guide, but I figure they would be a good place to start. And maybe I might do the whole 27 places at once because it sounds like there might be a podcast tour to go along with it. So a nice thing to do in the spring, summer or fall but not when it is below zero.

Anyway, I have dishes to do. I will report more on my goals tomorrow.