So in this coming year I hope to stay happy with my job and keep doing a good job so if any full time positions open up I will be first in line for them. I recently worked full time for three weeks because someone was taking time off for surgery and the experience was amazing. Not only was I working double the hours I normally work (so TWICE as much money!), but I also was able to eat breakfast and lunch every single day for free. My girls went with me every morning since I had to be at work by 6:30 so they also received a free breakfast every day. It was definitely worth having to get up at five every morning!
Home-wise, I have been doing a deep clean the last few weeks and our yard sale/donate pile has gotten so enormous that I've ran out of storage space in my shed. My girls have cleaned their rooms and gutted several shelves in their bookcases without me even asking them. I would love to keep that momentum going so that I feel more likely to clean on a regular basis. Right now our house is almost too big for us because cleaning it just takes all my energy. It is an all day job just doing the sweeping/mopping/vacuuming and general tidying. My big goal in our home this year is to paint our play room. It hasn't been touched since we moved in almost seven years ago and it's due for an overhaul. It's a large room and there will have to be three separate colors chosen so I'm both looking forward to it and dreading it.
Every year I say I am going to exercise more and run on the treadmill every day but it only lasts a few weeks. So I'm going to calm down and say maybe three times a week on the treadmill this year. I've had a goal of running a 5K for a few years now but my lungs aren't quite on board with that yet. Hopefully I can stick to the exercise and improve my breathing a little.
When it comes to reading I am going for quality over quantity. I far surpassed my original 2014 goal of 75 books but there's no way I will reach that this new year. I would love to completely shut myself off from ordering library books and concentrate on clearing my own overstuffed bookcases but there's a few series that I read with new books coming out in the next year and I refuse to wait until 2016 to read them. I'm hoping to check no more than one out a month from the library and only use their used bookstore a few times over the year. I bought a pile of big thick classics for Christmas and my hope is to read at least a few of them. War and Peace is the one I'm most looking forward to!
My last big resolution is to work on saving more money for my family. I know everyone has credit card debt and to be honest, I don't really think ours is as large as a lot of people's, but I'd still like to reduce it as much as possible. I'm going to try the 52 Week Money Saving Challenge and put all of that money aside for our big planned Fall 2016 Disney World trip. I would love to be able to pay all of our meals in cash when we go so that we can enjoy ourselves and order anything and everything we want!
(I got this printout from Fresh and Organized but there are a ton of them floating around the web)
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