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January 4, 2012

Blog Dare 2012: Bucket List

January 4, 2012

(In my Val from A Chorus Line voice):
I never heard of the Bucket List, Never saw the Bucket List, I don’t give a Sh*t about the Bucket List!
I want to make an impact!
(Actually Val wants to be a Rockette and is talking about the ballet classic movie The Red Shoes)

While I don’t have things that I MUST do before I kick the bucket, I do have a few goals for the first quarter of 2012.

Fitness Goals:

  • Do Chaturanga Dandasana, seamlessly.  Right now when I attempt this pose, I have a shooting pain in my right shoulder.  Which means I’m doing it wrong or I’m still too Team Lard to attempt this.
  • Get my miles back to 12 minutes.  Right now, I’m averaging 20 minutes a mile. And while I’m okay with that, I plan to compete in some races this spring.
  • Eat more clean and regularly.  Less butter on my food, less sodium, less swine strips.

Professional Goals:

  • Find a job away from my house.  I found myself setting my day around Maury Povitch and Jerry Springer.  This saddens me so.  I used to watch these shows in passing, like at a doctor’s office or if I waited for my mom when I was taking her somewhere.  But now, they’re part of the rotation.  And I have no shame saying that. Ugh. 
  • Meet up with like minded civic goaled groups and continue to clean my neighborhood.  I didn’t win my race and I’m learning to let that go, but I realize *I* made the title, the tile didn’t make me.
  • Continue working toward my degree.  2011 ended in a sucky way, but I still need to work on having that paper that proves I knew how to take notes and listen.
Mental/Spiritual Goals:
  • I’m still having major issues with church, God, and religion.  I have been practicing my yoga twice a day and doing some meditation, but the relationship I had with God is gone and that saddens me.  I feel a void, but as a much wiser woman told me today, I won’t get right with God until I get right in my head.
  • Mindfulness.  I have a post I’ve been working on about this new way to keep it together.  So far I’ve had less panic attacks and less of a need to be right. Plus, this helps put my relationship with God in perspective: when I’m aware of the land around me, I can’t help but notice that a Higher Power than me is involved.
Balance Goals:
  • Reading for enjoyment.  I downloaded over 100 books to my Kindle.  I’ve browsed two.
  • Less TV (see my Maury/Jerry obsession), more music.  Again, my iPod holds over 2300 songs.  I really miss the way music soothes me.
  • More time just chatting with the kids and The Mister.  I spent so much of 2011 on the Go, I lost what was THE most important to me, my family connection.  My Mother in Law was taking the Teen shoe shopping, The Boy stopped laying next to me to watch a Disney movie, preferring to watch Chuggaconroy. And Phil Ivey had my husband’s pulse more than me.  
  • Not to forget ME time.  I realized when I counted more blackheads than freckles and my eyebrows had morphed into two caterpillars, it was time for a change.  I used to take time Thursday to pamper.  Nails, toes, the works.  Then I let one Thursday turn into three and I was looking quite hideous.

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