Resolutions for 2010
January 8th, 2010 Posted in Misc., Reading RoomI never came and wrote out my complete resolutions, so to make sure I follow them this year I thought I would post:
- Get married (probably the most important).
- Back to better health and nutrition (green smoothies/juices, more of a vegetarian/pescatarian diet).
- Back to the gym… exercise at least 3 times a week (losing 20 pounds is ideal here since I have a wedding dress to squeeze into).
- Learn where my food comes from and eat more local/organic (join the CSA).
- Continue to drop the plastic and paper bags in the store and use my Baggu bags.
- Get to bed before midnight so I can get up earlier.
- Read one book a month (did well with this one last year).
- Make one new recipe from my cookbooks each week.
- Knit myself a sweater (have always wanted to and never have).
Of course the only resolution from last year I did well with was the reading. I far surpassed my goal of one book per month and read nearly 24 books! Take a look:
- Eat, Pray, Love / Elizabeth Gilbert
- His Dark Materials Omnibus / Philip Pullman
- Wicked / Gregory Maguire
- Son of a Witch / Gregory Maguire
- Angels & Demons / Dan Brown
- The Last Lecture / Randy Pausch
- Sex and the City / Candace Bushnell
- Twilight / Stephenie Meyer
- New Moon / Stephenie Meyer
- Eclipse / Stephenie Meyer
- Breaking Dawn / Stephenie Meyer
- Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog / John Gorgan
- Three Cups of Tea / Greg Mortenson
- The Secret Life of Bees / Sue Monk Kidd
- The Friday Night Knitting Club / Kate Jacobs
- Knit Two / Kate Jacobs
- Knit the Season / Kate Jacobs
- A Thousand Splendid Suns / Khaled Hosseini
- The Kite Runner / Khaled Hosseini
- Q&A / Vikas Swarup
- Dead Until Dawn (Sookie Stackhouse 1) / Charlaine Harris
- Living Dead in Dallas (Sookie Stackhouse 2) / Charlaine Harris
- Green Smoothies Diet / Robyn Openshaw (only half)
- Julie & Julia / Julie Powell (only half)
So now I have to work on my reading list for this year, and so far I have only come up with 11:
- Julie & Julia / Julie Powell (only half – finished right after the new year)
- My Sister’s Keeper / Jodi Picoult (already started)
- Green for Life / Victoria Boutenko
- Food Inc. / Karl Weber
- In Defense of Food / Michael Pollan
- The Lost Symbol / Dan Brown
- Silence of the Lambs / Thomas Harris
- Hannibal / Thomas Harris
- Tunnels / Roderick Gordon & Brian Williams
- Deeper / Roderick Gordon & Brian Williams
- A Lion Among Men / Gregory Maguire