Goals/Resolutions for 2014 – February Update

   Rose’s List of 2014 New Year’s Resolutions/Goals:

To be fair, only a few of my resolutions are book related. Here they are in no particular order:

1.   Walk Maddox at least once a day, every day. For those who do not know, Maddox is my 1 year of Doberman puppy. To say he is full of energy is an understatement.  I have taken him for an off leash walk around our walking trails in our community. It takes about 45 minutes. I come back exhausted. He comes back spritely and with an exuberant spring in his step. So yes, I am also considering a treadmill for my doggy. He needs more exercise than one 45 minute run can give him. So I started off doing really good with this one. Maddox was improving, too. Because he was getting more exercise, especially free running off leash, he was calming down more in the evenings and things were going well. However, my schedule has recently been full every evening and I do not make it home most nights before dark. Poor puppy is not getting walked and he going stir crazy again. I need to definitely look into getting that treadmill. The weather has been less than cooperative lately as well. It was been a muddy mess here lately and really cold.
2.   Ride Kissy (my horse) at least 10 hours/month.  I did a 30 hours in 30 days challenge last June and the difference in my horse was astounding. I would love to ride that often all the time, but the shorter days are really a drag on my time. (Although the arena has lights, so perhaps the shorter days is a poor excuse.) The biggest hardship with riding my horse is the long congested commute. It takes usually a little over an hour to get to the horse barn. Since I get home at 5 and want to be in bed by no later than 10, that is pushing it. I have not met this goal at all. I am currently unable to ride at this time as I have separated my shoulder and possibly have a labral tear in my shoulder. So no riding for a while for me. This is frustrating. Everyone at the barn went riding at 7IL Ranch yesterday and I had to stay home. No fun.
3.   Speaking of bed, I am making my bedtime of 10pm a priority. In fact, I really want to make my bedtime 9 since I get up at 5 and that way I could get 8 hours. We shall see. Right now I am setting 10pm as my bedtime and well, its 10:14pm as I type this so go figure.  I completely forgot about this one. I mean, I didn’t forget, but sleep is always the first thing to go whenever I get busy.
4.   Give up the soda. I am one of those people that has to drink a coke every morning. It is my morning coffee. Well, this past year has seen me gain over 20 pounds, so I am definitely going to be cutting back on the soda.  I do not know if I can ever give it up completely, but right now I am weaning off of it. This is such a tough one for me. I did well for a while, but then I back slid this weekend. Soda is still my go to drink of choice when I am dealing with little sleep and no energy.
5.   Working out more and getting into better shape. I have only two words on this one ha and ha.
6.   Finish writing 2 books. Self-publish 2 books? Because I could say that I would do just one. Lets add more work on there.   I have not so much as typed a single word of fiction in over a month. This is depressing.
7.   Improve my Netgalley ratio. Doesn’t every blogger have this goal?  I think this might just prove to be impossible.
8.   Read 50 new books this year. Scaling it back a little from last years goal of 100. That was tough!  Okay, this is really starting to get depressing. I have only read 2 books so far this year. Sad? Yes!
9.   Get my home library organized and on my goodreads shelves. I am doing this with hopes of preventing duplicate purchases. I just get so excited when I see a book on sale for $1.99 that I immediately click! I do not want to miss out on such a steal, right? But then it turns out that I usually already have at least two copies of the same book….go figure!  I did get my library straightened up some, so that is good, right?
10. Use night time moisturizing eye cream. Because you can have silver hair, but no one likes wrinkles around the eyes. Or at least that is what I have been told. I really just want to avoid dying my hair, so I am holding off as long as possible… lol. So I choose to focus on my eyes right now and the hair can go hang. er something… …So I had run out of this eye cream and never repurchased some more. But it is on my shopping list when I ever do make it out to the store…

    So how did ya’ll do on your New Year’s Resolutions? I am a little bummed that I have not done better, but I think once I get past this injury, I will start doing more. (Excuses, anyone???) I think revisiting these goals on a monthly basis might help me to maintain my focus and possible even achieve one or two of these goals. I am curious to hear how everyone else is doing at this point in the new year.

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