I know making resolutions for the new year is terribly cliche but, I figure if I keep it simple like I did last year, I'll have a chance of actually seeing some of them through as I managed to do. True, I didn't officially make a list or even really admit the things I wanted to achieve this past year to myself, but I was always conscious of the few things I knew I had to improve on just so I could actually get through 2007.
(For the record, the short and sweet list was: get better mentally (check); get more relaxed about Houdini's health and Houdini in general (check); work on my relationship with Lemel (uhh, yeah, so moving on...); gain weight (not really something I wanted to do but something both my PCP and psychiatrist insisted I needed to work on--that was gets a BIG check, as you'll see below).
So, here is the list for this year. Or, rather, two lists: I cheated and made a separate one for Houdini, except that they are not so much his resolutions, of course, as they are mine that concern him. I want to separate things I want to focus on purely for myself from things I want to focus on for myself with regards to him, because I guess the one overall resolution is to get continue getting back to who I am separate from him.
My list:
- Lose weight: So, I did such a fantastic job of gaining all the weight I lost due to stress in 2006 that I am now about 10 pounds over where I was when I started losing all the weight. I know it's partly due to the medication I am on and a side effect is they act exactly the opposite of appetite suppressants, but that's only part of it. I relied too much on junk food to gain back the weight I'd lost and I used my dramatic, stress-induced weight loss as an excuse to continue eating anything and everything long past the time it was still applicable. So, now I am looking at about 15 pounds to lose. Sigh. Dieting won;t be enough, either; I have to get my butt moving.
- File for citizenship: I am such procrastinator when it comes to necessary things I need to do for myself. Especially when they are easy to do. Seriously, filling out the damn application will take me probably all of an hour.
- Stay on top of my meds: I've been slacking a bit since my mom left to go back home and I'm starting to feel it, a bit. I also need to take a bunch of vitamins and supplements that will hopefully ward off some of what I know is in store for me health-wise, thanks to genetics, if not forever, then at least for a while.
- Get my eyes checked: Four years since my last checkup. That's pretty bad. Especially when you consider I have kickass insurance we're paying quite a bit for.
- Go to the dentist: See above.
Here is Houdini's list:
- Enroll him in some preschool program by his third birthday: Now that he is stronger, and I am less anxious, it's time for him to be around other kids. It's not fair to him, my isolating him to adults, because I am a freak about his getting sick. I mean, even though I didn't go to school until I was four, I had a sibling and I saw my cousin, who is two years older then me, fairly frequently and I had playdates with my grandmother's neighbor's daughter. The kid needs to be around other kids. I'm really hoping the program at the little school in our community for the 2.5 year olds takes off, but I have to look into other alternatives in case it doesn't.
- Get him a passport: I'm really killing two birds with one stone with this one, because I need his birth certificate in order to get him a passport and we still haven't gotten around to getting an official copy.
- Get his room in order: This one may take all year. Sigh.
- Continue to focus on improving his health (but not obsessively): Enough said.
- Get him to go to bed at a decent time: Eh, not a biggie, seeing how he doesn't go to school, so he can always make up for his sleep. But seeing how I typically go to bed when he does, I wouldn't mind an earlier bedtime for myself so I can get up earlier!
