A "Quarterly Report" on my New Year's Resolutions
Since the year is just about a quarter over, I thought it would be fun to check in on my 2010 New Year's Resolutions and see how much progress I've made.
Here they are:
1. Take Chloe to Disneyland. Preferably in October.
2. Get a professional job that pays a livable wage.
3. Take new professional head and body shots.
4. Attend a party at the playboy mansion
5. Submit to a scrapbooking magazine for possible publication.
6. Take more scrapbooking classes.
7. Get a coat to wear with fancy dresses.
8. Take a vacation with my boyfriend.
9. Throw a graduation party for myself and Erin.
10. Fix my car door.
11. Maintain my bikini-ready body.
12. Attend dance class regularly- preferably ballet.
For goal #3, I just had a shoot last weekend. I saw some of the images on the digital camera during the shoot, but I haven't seen them on CD or printed yet. However I'm pretty confident we got at least a few good ones I can use, but if not I will need to shoot again. I am also planning to submit some of them to the playboy events person so hopefully I will be invited to a Mansion party as a guest or a worker sometime this summer, and will achieve goal #4 as well.
I have been attending make-and-take "mini classes" every Saturday at the scrapbook store and learned how to make a variety of paper flowers. Here are some photos lifted from the store's blog of the types of flowers I learned to make. I also took a Making Memories free class where I got to try out a Slice machine to make some elements for a card (I don't make cards so I will probably use them for scrapbooking) and made a really cute necklace from their new jewelry line. I have so been enjoying going to the store each week and making the flowers and getting to know the store employees! Although technically I completed this goal I am hoping to attend the CKC convention in July and take a bunch more classes throughout the summer.
For goal #7, a friend of mine once got a furry looking coat to wear over her formal dresses that I thought was so pretty. I was really tired of ruining the "look" of my fancy dresses by wearing a mismatching coat with them (like a northface or something), or forgoing a coat altogether and freezing my butt off. Then when I was looking at Nicole's Blog I spotted a white Juicy fur coat that I LOVED. However, the price tag was $400 and a little too much for my after-Christmas budget, so I decided to keep an eye out for something similar. So, imagine my joy when I discovered the same exact coat HALF OFF while browsing at the Juicy store a week or two later. I snapped it up without a second thought and love it so much that we actually shot pictures of me in it for my shoot last weekend.
Obviously goal #8 needs to be adjusted because I am single. However, I *AM* going to visit A in San Diego this weekend, so I am going to consider that goal met/change it back to get a passport.
I fixed my car door along with a host of other little problems my car had, no much more to really say about that. Next I would like to fix the front bumper area that I badly scraped up a couple years ago.
There are also a collection of goals that while I haven't achieved, I have progressed towards. Mainly goals #2, #9, #11, and #12. I was hired as a paid employee by my internship, but it's not the position I'm going for/exactly a "liveable" wage. One of the other people in our grad program offered to throw a BBQ at his house, so we are planning to do that as a graduation party for our class. I am still thinking of doing something else on the side/maybe afterwards with all of my friends, but can't exactly settle on what that will be yet. I have attended 5 ballet classes this year, which is already 5 more than I attended last year. Work lately has been making it really difficult for me to go to class more regularly than that. As far as maintaining my bikini-ready body, I think I've done a good job but that is really a goal that I won't count as completed until the very end of the year since it is on-going.
Here is a photo of me from a UFC fight April 12th with my friends Heidi and Brandy:
I actually feel like I've made a lot of progress in a short time. Back to the thesis!
Here they are:
1. Take Chloe to Disneyland. Preferably in October.
2. Get a professional job that pays a livable wage.
3. Take new professional head and body shots.
4. Attend a party at the playboy mansion
5. Submit to a scrapbooking magazine for possible publication.
6. Take more scrapbooking classes.
7. Get a coat to wear with fancy dresses.
8. Take a vacation with my boyfriend.
9. Throw a graduation party for myself and Erin.
10. Fix my car door.
11. Maintain my bikini-ready body.
12. Attend dance class regularly- preferably ballet.
For goal #3, I just had a shoot last weekend. I saw some of the images on the digital camera during the shoot, but I haven't seen them on CD or printed yet. However I'm pretty confident we got at least a few good ones I can use, but if not I will need to shoot again. I am also planning to submit some of them to the playboy events person so hopefully I will be invited to a Mansion party as a guest or a worker sometime this summer, and will achieve goal #4 as well.
I have been attending make-and-take "mini classes" every Saturday at the scrapbook store and learned how to make a variety of paper flowers. Here are some photos lifted from the store's blog of the types of flowers I learned to make. I also took a Making Memories free class where I got to try out a Slice machine to make some elements for a card (I don't make cards so I will probably use them for scrapbooking) and made a really cute necklace from their new jewelry line. I have so been enjoying going to the store each week and making the flowers and getting to know the store employees! Although technically I completed this goal I am hoping to attend the CKC convention in July and take a bunch more classes throughout the summer.
For goal #7, a friend of mine once got a furry looking coat to wear over her formal dresses that I thought was so pretty. I was really tired of ruining the "look" of my fancy dresses by wearing a mismatching coat with them (like a northface or something), or forgoing a coat altogether and freezing my butt off. Then when I was looking at Nicole's Blog I spotted a white Juicy fur coat that I LOVED. However, the price tag was $400 and a little too much for my after-Christmas budget, so I decided to keep an eye out for something similar. So, imagine my joy when I discovered the same exact coat HALF OFF while browsing at the Juicy store a week or two later. I snapped it up without a second thought and love it so much that we actually shot pictures of me in it for my shoot last weekend.
Obviously goal #8 needs to be adjusted because I am single. However, I *AM* going to visit A in San Diego this weekend, so I am going to consider that goal met/change it back to get a passport.
I fixed my car door along with a host of other little problems my car had, no much more to really say about that. Next I would like to fix the front bumper area that I badly scraped up a couple years ago.
There are also a collection of goals that while I haven't achieved, I have progressed towards. Mainly goals #2, #9, #11, and #12. I was hired as a paid employee by my internship, but it's not the position I'm going for/exactly a "liveable" wage. One of the other people in our grad program offered to throw a BBQ at his house, so we are planning to do that as a graduation party for our class. I am still thinking of doing something else on the side/maybe afterwards with all of my friends, but can't exactly settle on what that will be yet. I have attended 5 ballet classes this year, which is already 5 more than I attended last year. Work lately has been making it really difficult for me to go to class more regularly than that. As far as maintaining my bikini-ready body, I think I've done a good job but that is really a goal that I won't count as completed until the very end of the year since it is on-going.
Here is a photo of me from a UFC fight April 12th with my friends Heidi and Brandy:
I actually feel like I've made a lot of progress in a short time. Back to the thesis!