Happy New Year everyone! I hope you are super excited for 2010 and ready with your goals. Before we move on to my January goals, let’s do a recap of December:
Take the GMAT.So I took the test on the 23rd. Yes, right before hopping on my plane to St. Louis. I ended up doing better than I had hoped (by 30 points) and just found out I got a 6.0 on the writing section.Get out the Holiday cards BEFORE Christmas.I have a couple of surprise cards that got sent to me, so I do have one or two to send back, BUT I did get all my others out well before Christmas.Do Christmas for $100.I did manage this…don’t know how, but I did. Got mom, dad, Andrew, and Phil done, with a couple other people thrown in the mix. It felt good to try and be more creative instead of pretending to be Miss Money Bags (which I’m not).Hug More Often.I did get to accomplish this, but I think I’m going to have to carry it over. I mean, it was -12° this morning, we need the hugs for warmth 🙂
And now on to January!
- Get back to a routine. The holidays always make it hard for me to stick to a routine, and studying for the GMAT on top of that made it impossible. I really like routine, having the same day-in and day-out. So back to workouts, work, cooking, reading, and taking care of myself.
- Take a multivitamin everyday. I know, I know! This is a habit that should have been part of my morning routine thanks to Flintstones…but today, I can tell you, it’s all possible thanks to gummy vitamins (yes, I’m 4).
- Read, read, read, and then read some more. Now that the weather pretty much makes all of us indoor creatures, I want to be sure that I keep up the mental exercise. So I’ll be burning up my Kindle with tons of book time. I got through 12 books over the holiday break, and I am SO ready to keep moving through some of the amazing stories I’ve been reading.
- See some more Takashi Miike movies. A friend turned me on to this director a couple years ago, and the movies remind me so much of Japan. Not that living there was like living in a Yakuza horror movie, but when I watch, there’s a lot of “I remember that!”
- Hug More Often. Like I said above, ’tis the season to share body warmth.
To participate in the meet-up:
1. Post a list of your career/life related goals for January, along with your checked off December goals if you’d like, on your own blog.
2. Come back to BrazenCareerist.com network and leave a link to your post in the comments (*If you don’t have your own blog, feel free to share your list here in the comments to join in!)
3. Then, check out everyone else’s lists as they leave comments – click their links, visit their blogs, say hello, meet, greet and support each other because that’s what it’s all about!
Picture from clipart.
I saw the commercials for adult gummy vitamins and giggled. I am so happy about their creation. The adult in me gets healthy while the kid in me gets a present every morning.
Yeah, I get excited about vitamins now. All of us want to be a kid sometimes, they should have thought of this earlier…
First of all, congrats on the GMAT! Now that you are over with that one you really can spend more quality time on other stuff. I know very well how time consuming preparing for examinations is (even the times when you don’t do interesting stuff because you “should” be studying, but you don’t do this either, because you are too distracted by the other fun things you could be doing if you weren’t studying). So, welcome back to routine! In a positive way. Like a more tranquil lookout on daily chores.
Here in Spain, it will take me another week for that one, because we have yet another holiday on the 6th and half of the country took the whole week off (at least at my work place). But that way I will be sliding in bit by bit.
And please share what you have been reading if you feel like it! It is always interesting to see what other people spent time with.
Thanks for the kind words! I was getting to the point where I felt bad if a took a few hours for a break because I knew I could use the time for studying. I’m glad I’m done though…
For reading, I’ve been covering the Sookie Stackhouse series (what HBO’s True Blood is based on); Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession; The Blind Assassin and The Handmaid’s Tale; and of course steamy romance novels.
Plus I just finished another book that will have a review up here not too far from now. Also visit the book shelf network on Brazen Careerist. I think you’ll like it…http://www.brazencareerist.com/group/book-shelf
Man, that vitamin one is a good one! It seems like every month I start taking them, in then forget after four days. I need to add it to my goals.
I see someone has already asked what you are reading. My wife has read a few of the Sookie books and she really enjoyed them. What’s The Blind Assassin about? I’m just finishing up World War Z, a collection of interviews several years after The Great Panic that was the zombie world war–it’s an excellent read.
Good luck on your other goals, thanks for stopping by my site!
The Blind Assassin is about a woman remembering her youth with a story in the middle of the novel, so chapters go back and forth. May take a little mental horse power to keep the stories straight, but really good result.
I have World War Z on my Kindle list!! I love zombie books and movies, but hadn’t had a chance to ask if anyone liked it. Totally going to be my next book, thank you!
Congrats on finishing all of your goals, and especially on the GMATs! Talk about finishing 2009 off with a bang!
My in-laws bought me a huge-ass jar of those gummy vitamins for xmas, because I have a tough time swallowing large pills because, yes, I am also 4. But I keep forgetting to take them! Maybe it’s because I put them in the linen closet…Perhaps I should add that one to my list of goals as well (in addition to actually doing my post on my list of goals sometime this century).
And ditto on the Miike love. Though I’ve never been to Japan. I just love Yakuza horror movies.
Yay! I’m so glad that at least one person doesn’t think I’m totally out there for putting Miike on my goal list. But it’s a unique way of story-telling, and really, he gets at the heart of the human condition (if that exists).
I keep my gummies by my keys, so I either remember when I leave or get home. Sometimes I have to keep myself from eating a handful…I’m sure that it’s not super harmful, but still, wouldn’t want to OD on gummy vitamins.
Hey Emily-Great work with December goals- I am heartened and inspired to try harder with mine now. Good luck with your January goals! I hope you give and get lots of (((hugs)))
Thanks! *Virtual hug* back to you!!! Best of luck with 2010 for yourself, I know you have a ton on your plate, but I think you’ll get through everything, even with a little flair 🙂
Great job with December! Isn’t it satisfying to cross them off the list? My mornings are so busy that I forget my vitamin all the time! Maybe I need to make it a written goal too! My hubby got a Kindle for Christmas and I promptly took it over! I just got the new Margaret Atwood novel yesterday and I’m working on Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger. I have World War Z and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies on my To Be Read list.
Will you let me know how the new Margaret Atwood is? I’ve decided shes’s on my must read author list, but I don’t always know where to go next. Luckily, it’s like Jodi Picoult where you can kind of pick up the books whenever since they’re rarely related.
I heard from so many people who got Kindles for Christmas, and they all love them. I’ve been downloading all the apps and love that they’ll sync so I always know what page I’m on, no matter the device.
Sure seems like everyone has a Kindle these days… is it really as great as everyone says it is? It sure makes reading easier I would guess. If I want to read a new book I have to either buy it at the store or wait until someone returns it to the library. I did just join this website, LibraryThing.com, to keep track of all the books I’ve read & want to read, and it’s been giving me some great automatic book suggestions based on my library. Yay for new toys!