30 in 30

Its January 12th. Its already time for those New Year's resolutions to be slipping away from us. Mine have. They haven't even really been started.

I had lots of goals for 2013. I'm going to stick with saying that I HAVE lots of goals for this year.

Most of them involve myself and making myself a better person. The biggest one reflects the blog title: I want to lose 30 pounds. (The other 30 is that I turn 30 this year. Gulp.) Thirty pounds sounds like a lot. Thirty pounds though should put me in the correct range for my height. Or still a little heavy. I mean lets face it: I gained nearly 40+ pounds during vet school.
Part of losing this weight is tied into the fact that I want to run a 5K this year. I plan on using couch to 5K method with a goal of running a race this spring, late spring. I haven't even started running. I still don't own a pair of tennis shoes!
I just feel uncomfortable in my clothes. Not only is it the fact that I continue to gain weight, (I love fast food and sadly, very rarely can say no. Even if I somehow have this weird thing that when I think about fast food or even just eating out, I feel this weird tingling in my body like its the fat cells expanding.) its also that I never buy clothes for myself. My clothes are wearing out and don't fit. If I lose weight, one of the grand things is that I can buy new clothes. Like new bras. I want to wear nicer bras. And be able to determine the days that I shouldn't wear nice bras because my arm is going to be on the inside of a cow.
As part of making myself a better person and doing things for myself, I want to take more time for myself. I had been doing pretty good pre-couch. I plan on trying to start doing it again. Sewing, reading, crafting, etc...spending some time doing these things will make me a much more sane person.
I'm also getting my hair cut really short with highlights. Something new, something different that will be a new start.

The biggest goal of 2013 is to get pregnant. I'm turning 30. Joe and I need to start our family. Monday, I plan on trying to locate a doctor. When I can get into the doctor...that's a different story. My time off is so hard to predict.

I want to also save more money. This is something that Joe and I need to work on together. Tighten the purse strings so that I can get a house. I'm working on my mom to take the ponies back to Missouri. I honestly don't have time for them and they are really a drain on my finances. Other methods of saving money include eliminating DVDs from Netflix and looking for a new insurance quote.

In terms of things that Joe and I need to work on together, keeping a cleaner house is one of them. Our house is dirty. It always is. I'll break out the vacuum later this weekend.

So needless to say, I should get off this couch and run. Its like 60 degrees today. Maybe I'll run when I have some tennis shoes.