Change

Change is hard and painful even. I have a lot of habits that are deeply ingrained in me. I had a hard time resisting the lure of a cooking magazine yesterday. I really, really wanted it. I didn't let myself get it, and I was mad at myself. Did I need it? NO, but the want was really strong. I am like that with cross stitch. I have this HUGE desire to stash. I have tons of projects, yet I go and look and want and buy. My only saving grace is that there is no LNS here. I have to order online to get the designers I want. I don't remember the last time I went to Michael's or Hobby Lobby and bought one. I buy floss there and sometimes linen at Hobby Lobby.

I took Hannah and Gabby K. to see "Marley and Me" last night. It was good, but they both gave it a 7 out of 10. Hannah thought the book had to be better and wants to read it to make sure.

Today will be more of the same, grading and such. With a little housework and grocery shopping thrown in for good measure. I am making a menu plan for the week and a list. If it isn't on my list, I don't buy it. I am going to the gym this evening ~ well probably late afternoon after Van goes to work.

A new Hobby Lobby just opened and Hannah needs some things for her book project so we might head over there this AM to check them out. I do have a couple of floss colors I need...

New Year's Day and the beginning of the change...

As always, with the beginning of the new year, people rush around to make their resolutions. My gym will become overcrowded for the next couple of weeks and then those people will flitter away as they lose their passion. I am going to spend the next 31 days focused on making some lifestyle changes for the better.

I read or heard that if you spend 30 days trying to change a habit, then it can change. That is what I am hoping to do.

• I would like to work on my spending habits. I am a very impulsive shopper. I want to change this. I buy cookbooks and cross stitch and other things, even when I don't need it. I am going back to making my lists. This helps me control it. I am better when I do that. This will also help me not be wasteful.


• Health ~ I want to work on losing the extra weight I still have and training for a half marathon in May. I want to eat healthier and not out as much. I am back to menu planning and writing down what I eat.


• Family ~ I want to work on developing a better relationship with my middle sister. We are not close. It saddens me that it is this way.

These are the main ones for now.

NEW YEAR'S EVE:

We could have gone to a couple of parties, but I really didn't feel like going to the "drunken bashes" that both would turn into. Plus the one I was invited to, I figured there would be people from school I would rather not have to deal with. Neither of my partner teachers were going nor any of the other people I hang with at school. DH didn't really know any of the people going to the one he had been invited to so we just decided to go out to eat and then watch Mama Mia (a Christmas present). I stitched while we watched and sang. It was an enjoyable evening!