I realize its way past the middle of the year.
I realize that you should make resolutions at the beginning of the year to be forgotten and unkept by two weeks in. I looked for a blog documenting that I had done this, but couldn't find one.
Anyway, this summer, sometime close to the middle of the year, I had some thoughts and thought I'd keep them. I haven't.
Here they are and my current thoughts on them:
1) Starting September 1st-Study for NAVLE one hour each night, and two hours a day on the weekend.
Well, it started out strong but finished fast. Now granted its only the 7th so I have some time to make up but...My grand plan was to study for half an hour on VetPrep and then for another half an hour on something that I missed on VetPrep or an area in which I know I am weak in. (i.e. pretty much all veterinary medicine). On the first, I managed to get the half an hour of VetPrep done but yet can not pull myself out of the 61% hole I put myself in. Then I randomly chose a number (83, in this case) and started to read about the problem (choke in horses) in Merck. I fell asleep in the middle of it and have yet to find the time to continue studying. Ugh. Its only NAVLE. Only the biggest test I'll ever take in my life.
2) Save some money and develop a budget.
The plan was once I got the student loan check and once I bought some groceries and some coffee tables to replace the one Joe broke the glass on, I (we) were going to develop a budget for the rest of the student loan check. See, I don't know when the next one will come or for how much it will be. And then there's the fact that we will be moving and evenutally I'd like new furniture and to get married and all that requires money. Now while we haven't been spending willy-nilly, no budget has been made and we're still spending the large portion of our (my) money on groceries. Joe is going to the Dave Ramsey Finacial Peace thing so hopefully, he will start getting some ideas on saving. (Joe wants me to make a note that he does buy my health insurance. Which is a lot. Which I haven't used. Which I should because I need to see the doctor and the student health center wants to fuck me because I don't know my student number that I haven't used since undergrad and got changed somewhere in vet school.)
3) Start going to church.
I decided that I wanted to get married in the Catholic church. While my reasons for this are horribly selfish, I also remember when I made a new year's resolution a few years back to go to church and how good it made me feel. Until I stopped going. Which happened rather quickly. So I told Joe that if we were going to get married in the Catholic church (which he has no objection to, I think) that WE should start going to mass even if he wasn't going to convert. (I wasn't going to make him but I think he was planing on it eventually.) Then I find out that you can't have the full, long Catholic mass without both parties being Catholic. I don't know if that changes the fact that I want to get married in the Catholic church or not, but nevertheless Joe and I haven't been going to mass.
And it totally makes my reason for wanting a big Catholic wedding a moot point (unless Joe converts).
My super selfish reason-I feel that I can only justify purchasing a wedding dress and making people purchase bridesmaids dresses if they wear them for a longer period of time. That longer period of time being the additional time that a mass takes.
4) That little red notebook that was on the floor.
This summer I got fat. Fat enought that I noticed it but not so fat that I couldn't still fit in the same jeans. Except maybe the 'rock jeans', which were a little too tight. But never my favorites.
We ate really, really well at SDI. And there was a lot of beer consumed pretty much all the time. Even I drank a lot.
So I thought that once I got back to Columbia, but maybe not when I was on surgery since surgery can be crazy, I was going to write down everything I ate for a week or two in that little red notebook previously mentioned. Then I was going to see the amount of calories consumed, what could be eliminated and what could be added (pretty much anything that grows directly in the ground that's not potatoes or wheat). And then I was going to record that and walk the dogs or at least Mary since walking Riley literally pulls my arms off. Thus I was going to lose some weight.
However, the notebook was on the floor until earlier today when I picked it up so the rabbit wouldn't eat it. I look like Dr.Zoidberg without his shell (unless I'm sitting upright which I should do).
One pants size would be nice. Two would be even better...but then I have to buy new pants so wouldn't it just be easier to wait until my current pants are worn out? Sigh. I'm fat. Damn all those foods I love.
[EDIT-Originally published to Blogger on 9/24/11.]
I realize that you should make resolutions at the beginning of the year to be forgotten and unkept by two weeks in. I looked for a blog documenting that I had done this, but couldn't find one.
Anyway, this summer, sometime close to the middle of the year, I had some thoughts and thought I'd keep them. I haven't.
Here they are and my current thoughts on them:
1) Starting September 1st-Study for NAVLE one hour each night, and two hours a day on the weekend.
Well, it started out strong but finished fast. Now granted its only the 7th so I have some time to make up but...My grand plan was to study for half an hour on VetPrep and then for another half an hour on something that I missed on VetPrep or an area in which I know I am weak in. (i.e. pretty much all veterinary medicine). On the first, I managed to get the half an hour of VetPrep done but yet can not pull myself out of the 61% hole I put myself in. Then I randomly chose a number (83, in this case) and started to read about the problem (choke in horses) in Merck. I fell asleep in the middle of it and have yet to find the time to continue studying. Ugh. Its only NAVLE. Only the biggest test I'll ever take in my life.
2) Save some money and develop a budget.
The plan was once I got the student loan check and once I bought some groceries and some coffee tables to replace the one Joe broke the glass on, I (we) were going to develop a budget for the rest of the student loan check. See, I don't know when the next one will come or for how much it will be. And then there's the fact that we will be moving and evenutally I'd like new furniture and to get married and all that requires money. Now while we haven't been spending willy-nilly, no budget has been made and we're still spending the large portion of our (my) money on groceries. Joe is going to the Dave Ramsey Finacial Peace thing so hopefully, he will start getting some ideas on saving. (Joe wants me to make a note that he does buy my health insurance. Which is a lot. Which I haven't used. Which I should because I need to see the doctor and the student health center wants to fuck me because I don't know my student number that I haven't used since undergrad and got changed somewhere in vet school.)
3) Start going to church.
I decided that I wanted to get married in the Catholic church. While my reasons for this are horribly selfish, I also remember when I made a new year's resolution a few years back to go to church and how good it made me feel. Until I stopped going. Which happened rather quickly. So I told Joe that if we were going to get married in the Catholic church (which he has no objection to, I think) that WE should start going to mass even if he wasn't going to convert. (I wasn't going to make him but I think he was planing on it eventually.) Then I find out that you can't have the full, long Catholic mass without both parties being Catholic. I don't know if that changes the fact that I want to get married in the Catholic church or not, but nevertheless Joe and I haven't been going to mass.
And it totally makes my reason for wanting a big Catholic wedding a moot point (unless Joe converts).
My super selfish reason-I feel that I can only justify purchasing a wedding dress and making people purchase bridesmaids dresses if they wear them for a longer period of time. That longer period of time being the additional time that a mass takes.
4) That little red notebook that was on the floor.
This summer I got fat. Fat enought that I noticed it but not so fat that I couldn't still fit in the same jeans. Except maybe the 'rock jeans', which were a little too tight. But never my favorites.
We ate really, really well at SDI. And there was a lot of beer consumed pretty much all the time. Even I drank a lot.
So I thought that once I got back to Columbia, but maybe not when I was on surgery since surgery can be crazy, I was going to write down everything I ate for a week or two in that little red notebook previously mentioned. Then I was going to see the amount of calories consumed, what could be eliminated and what could be added (pretty much anything that grows directly in the ground that's not potatoes or wheat). And then I was going to record that and walk the dogs or at least Mary since walking Riley literally pulls my arms off. Thus I was going to lose some weight.
However, the notebook was on the floor until earlier today when I picked it up so the rabbit wouldn't eat it. I look like Dr.Zoidberg without his shell (unless I'm sitting upright which I should do).
One pants size would be nice. Two would be even better...but then I have to buy new pants so wouldn't it just be easier to wait until my current pants are worn out? Sigh. I'm fat. Damn all those foods I love.
[EDIT-Originally published to Blogger on 9/24/11.]
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