So, let's try this again.

Random life updates:

• Aharon's health problems have been narrowed down to two possibilities:
  1. A spinal column injury (this all started in his back in July) that did possible nerve damage.
  2. Ankylosing Spondylitis
• Back in December, I got a promotion at work. I went from the accounting department to the marketing department. I'm now the marketing coordinator which mostly means I have to keep people organized.
  
• The admin assistant Raechal (at work) talked management into giving us more flexibility over our schedules. She now works 9 hour days and gets to leave at noon every Friday. I now work a normal week every other week and then a four day week of ten hour days, so I get every other Friday completely off. Plus I'll be here almost 2 hours before the rest of the marketing department shows up, which gives me time to get started on projects without interruption.
• I finally graduated from college with a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in business. (The applied means I took a lot of business classes and less "general education" classes.) Either way, it's good to be finished.
  

Tired

I don't get enough sleep.

53 Days

I have exactly 53 days of higher education left in my life. (Unless I go to law school, which looks less and less likely as the days go by.)

I would just like to say that I feel that these past 2 years have been the biggest waste of my time. I got really good at knowing how to use unlimited practice quizzes to get 100% on final exams that counted for 75% of my grade, thus ensuring little effort had to be put into learning.

And I recently sat down and figured out that as long as I get a C- (70% - the required grade to pass) in my last ever (and current) class, I will still graduate magna cum laude and on the Dean's list. So the little motivation I had to do well is pretty much gone.

I am such a major slacker.

New Year's Resolutions

Now that my crazy, insane January is over, I feel that it is time to get started on my New Year's Resolutions.

It takes 2 weeks to make something habit. I had planned to get organized and get going on all of this starting in January, but things got in my way. For starters, I find it's easiest to begin something new on a Sunday or a Monday. So, starting with the month on a Friday was out of the question. Since it takes 2 weeks to form a habit and I was going to be out of town the 12th - 16th, I figured it would be a waste to get started the first full week of January. Once I got home, I spent a week trying to catch up on housework, homework, and laundry. Then last week, I was pretty sick.

But now, it's a new month. And although I went back to bed this morning after Aharon left for work instead of doing Wii Fit, I still feel like I'm going to get the hang of this.

My goals for the year include the following:

• Keep track of every penny. After we got married, we stuck to a budget. However, it was easy to not record some income and transactions and use the extra money for whatever. I found that this didn't give me the snapshot of our finances at the end of the year that I had hoped for. So this year, it doesn't matter where the money comes from or where it's going...it is getting recorded. My system is improved and ready-to-go. At the end of the year, I will know to the penny what we earned and where it all went.
  
• Plan for meals better. We spend too much money eating out because I haven't shopped properly or don't want to come home from work and spend an hour working on dinner. So this year, I'm planning ahead, shopping accordingly, and cooking whatever I can in advance.
  
• Exercise. I have put on 25 pounds since 2007. This makes me very unhappy and unfit, so those 25 pounds are going bye-bye. For real this time. Wii Fit is going to help me!
• Organize and prioritize. We need to finish the church library quickly and keep the website updated. Those are things we volunteered to do and we need to do them in a way that reflects well on our church and on our commitment to these projects.
  

January (Actually, Almost February) Already?!

I cannot keep up with myself.

Aharon hasn't been back to any doctors lately. His last appointment, the one where the doctor told him it was Fibromyalgia, was two days before Christmas. Things obviously got very busy at that point and then New Year's was here! I had to go out of town for work the second week of January. (To the Archery Trade Association 2010 show...wow.) After that, I came home to an apartment that hadn't had the slightest amount of cleaning done to it in almost a month, and about 7 loads of laundry needing to be done. I spent the next week getting things in order, getting doctors appointments for me to check my problems out, and trying to establish a routine.

Just when I felt like things were getting in order, I get hit with probably the worst week of female problems ever. I can barely move and I haven't ate much since Sunday. It's absolutely killer. (Sorry if any guys are reading this!)

I would really like to get a good routine going this year. I know that an entire month is pretty much over, but that doesn't mean that I should just give up on the entire year. I just feel like everything is against me. It's my final semester of school - at last- and I just found out I'm going to be a credit short. Luckily I can test out of English Comp at SC4 and still graduate without too much effort, but it still throws a brick in my plans. My best friend, Kadie, is getting married May 1st. My commencement is May 9th. So starting May 10th, I pretty much have a brand new life to adjust to. A life where I don't have to come home from work and do homework or spend weekends frantically writing papers.

So I feel like whatever routine I establish between now and May will end up changing after graduation. But then down the line we'll have a house and kids and routine will change again. I don't like change. Well, I do and I don't. It's too much to adjust to.

I already can barely fall asleep at night.