2012 and all it's promises...

Well here we are very near the end of the year and 2012 is holding so much hope. There is so much to be done next year, and I don't want an ordinary year. I want to be busy, I want to feel like we are climbing out of the rut we are in. So many aspects of our lives need to be improved on, and I know where to start, I know how to start, and HAVE started. I just need to keep on keeping on.

Number 1....as everyone knows, my weight. I have seen a dietician this year, as well as exercise physiologist, it has to come down. Exercise is required daily, 3 times a week minimum, and food needs to be cleaned up. No more dairy, very little carbs, many fruits, veg and some protein. (No I am not including real food in my carb count, as long as I eat all of the fruit, bought juices are out)

Number 2... work on our fertility. D is giving up smoking, and he is in on this health kick. It's time to kick infertility to the curb and claim our baby.

Number 3... money. D needs a job, I need a secure full time one. This obviously is a priority. We then have to focus on paying out debt and starting to put money away. Dave Ramsay is going to be my friend this year, he just doesn't know it yet.

Number 4... working on creating at home businesses. We are under no illusion that this will be easy, or that it will be only one. D and I both want to work from home. We want babies in the next year or two and this will be the best way. D is also bi-polar and doesn't get along well with people, this would probably give us more security than him working for someone else. So we will be focusing on Safe Cycling Australia, Sharp Chic, A Fashionable Marriage and Sharp Organising. Somewhere in all of this we will derive an income sufficient enough to be stay at home workers.

Number 5... yes there is more! D and I both need careers. We need to feel like we are contributing to the world, by working on Number 4 and 3, this could happen.

Number 6... I want to socialise and go out more. I don't want to feel that the year has flown by and we have nothing to show for it. I want to go out for dinners, weekends away and exploring our city. I want to meet new people, entertain and hold dinner parties. I want to be social.

Number 7... I want to set my home up. I want it to exude elegance, to be clean, tidy and people to walk in and think 'these people have it together'. I don't like walking in and seeing the mish mash that is our house. I want it to have style, grace, and character. I will be blogging about the changes we make, however slowly it may take us.

Number 8.. .I want to work on me. Not only do I need to lose the weight, but I want to change the way I present myself. In no way and I saying that I wish to change me...just how I present myself to the world. I am doing a workshop hopefully soon to learn basics of makeup and haircare. Next on the agenda is clothing and manners. I am taking the challenge not to swear and this will start from tomorrow night when my MIL arrives.

Number 9...I am committing to blogging. I will have 4 sites up and going. This is going to be a HUGE Task. The plan is one blog post for each blog a week, 2 for the personal blog. This personal blog will also be a record of my challenges, my progress against my goals and my accountability. I will be adding a page specifically to hold these goals and my progress markers.

Good luck to me and good luck to 2012 and all the hope that I lay on it.

love
Moby

Still no pay

Im getting impatient. We expected D's pay to go in on Thursday night, it's now Tuesday and nothing. I would'nt care so much if this was a year ago. We would have had a few k in the bank which was a bit of an emergency fund. The last year though we have been living week to week. It's more than a lil scary.


Today I'll put some money in the car, but I think I might have to do some cooking tonite for lunches tomorrow. On the bright side, the shopping I do once we are paid should last the two weeks.


My plan this week is to organise the fridge and pantry.


Will get a few baskets (just plastic $2 ones) for spices and bottles
wait for Penny Miller catalogue to grab a can organiser and shelf insert
Put all flours/box mixes in plastic stackable containers
Spices in basket

Howards Storage

Later On
Produce bins for onions, potato & pumpkin & Plate Stacker (but Ill need to get a round dinner set for that)

Howards Storage World

Howards Storage World
Plate Stacker

I also like the drawer dividers from Howards Storage World, though Im sure Id be able to pick up similar from ebay or ikea. I also need to clean out my drawers. how do people get away with only this many items. Well this is just for show. But only one drawer full? Do they have some on the bench? I like the wooden handles on these. And the white plastic with them. I'm also thinking that I need to put out silver cutlery away and buy a cheap set for daily use. The good ones are getting rust on them from the dishwasher (easily scrubbed off tho), but the set is too big to fit in the drawers. The other option is to make custom dividers.

Food Prep wise: I want to try the Sunday Set-up Idea from Kathy Kaehler. 

Organise all meals, do the prep work and put them in snaplock containers in the fridge. Then when D & I are feeling lazy, its just a matter or pulling out the components and putting on the stove. Plus I can keep it all quite healthy. Woolworths has the containers for $3 each this week. I can also then get D another lunchbox and cooler bag and set up his lunches for the week also. 

It all sounds ok to me.