Well, the fall was hectic...I had too many things on my plate and I dropped a few of them along the way - blogging, an online grad class, hitting the gym and any semblance of a social life. Between work, a grandmother with a broken hip who lived with us for a month of the recovery process, helping with the church youth group, a trip to NYC and my mother having heart catherization - I can't imagine why I dropped those plates - (roll eyes).
That said, I guess it's time to move into the New Year and make some resolutions - which I guess I do every year but never seem to stick to. So, I guess I resolve not to make any resolutions - instead, I'll make promises to try to get back to the gym, to try work smarter not harder, to try to deligate more, to develop more of a social life. Now, what I really have to do is figure out ways to make all these things happen. Let me see....gym...I got an I-Pod Nano for Christmas, so I have something to listen to while I work out...maybe that will help motivation there. As for working smarter and deligating - my assitant has been after me about doing that....I need to work this week while I'm off on getting my act together and plan some things ahead rather than doing the planning the night before I teach it. Then I could actually know what to deligate beforehand and be ready - I used to do that, but with two grades to teach this year, I've struggled to find the time and energy to work ahead. As for the social life...I have started on that a bit - I am going to movies and dinner with friends from work occassionally - I really need to work on the dating end of it. We won't even talk about how long it's been since I had a real date - all I can say is the battery operated mode of pleasure has been over used for too long :(. So, I've started being a bit more serious with the Match.com stuff - I talked to couple of different guys in the fall - but my life was so crazy that those fizzled without even meeting. Hell, who had time to meet when I could barely find time to sleep. So, I've been reading the ads the last few days...sending out a few winks and trying to decide about e-mailing a few guys. I know a lot of women out there are very aggressive with this stuff - that's not my style - so I'm sure that puts me a step behind, but I'm going to put myself out there more and see what happens. At worst, I'm at the status quo - which, while a bit lonely at times, isn't that bad. I have friends, travel and can pretty well do as I please - I guess I'd say I'm comfortable but it's time to edge outside the comfort zone and take some risk in the new year. So, I guess the first goal of 2006 is to get to a point where it might be possible to get flowers and candy from someone besides a student at Valentine's Day. I guess I've laid out the lofty goal...wonder what will become of it....