Countdown
With four weeks until the end of the year, it’s no wonder that I’m thinking about New Year Resolutions. Last year’s resolutions were to work on getting healthy and loosing weight, graduate with a 3.0 or above and get a job that will contribute to our struggle to live. As it stands; I’ve lost 20 lbs this last year- 40 overall, I graduated with a 3.4 GPA and I have a part time job that promises to go full time. If it does I will be making enough money to pay all our bills on my own (which means more wiggle room for our money).
I’m trying to come up with realistic resolutions for this coming year. I tend to drop them around March if they are too off the wall. Keep them tame and I just might make them. I’m thinking that bad habits might be the focus this year. I have a few habits that I’d like to break. I’m not sure if I’ll succeed, but I could try.
The first habit I’d like to actually develop may seem gross to some of you. I would like to get into the habit of brushing my teeth. Yes, I know. When you grow up in a family as I did; hygiene really wasn’t enforced. If you picked it up great, if not, oh well you were just part of the trailer trash around you. I used to brush more often. Never daily but certainly more than I do now. Why is it that when you have other things to focus on the first things to go is care for your own person? I’d really like to get back to caring for numero uno. After all, I do that and I’m caring for Master’s most important person as well.
Secondly I’d like to get into the habit of folding clothes immediately out of the dryer. I have a load of laundry (towels) that has been in the basket since I washed/dried them last Saturday. Over a week ago. Ugh and what do I do? I move them to the other side of the room when they are in the way. Right now I have 3 loads of clean, albeit wrinkled clothes in my living room. I’m such a slob.
And that’s just the start. You can’t rebuild what you learned as a child in a day, but I know that with effort I can slowly break the cycle of the messy, nasty child I was and become the clean and orderly submissive that Master deserves.
–luna
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[...] I have been thinking of goals and resolutions for the coming year, and I blogged about them previously. I’m going to come up with a solid list here in the next week so that I can try to stick to them, and evaluate their progress throughout the year. There will be reachable goals and ‘I wish they were reachable’ goals. We’ll just have to see. [...]
Small goals are definitely the way to go. I know it works for me! And on the cleaning and organizing thing…I cannot say enough Flylady Flylady FLYLADY (http://www.flylady.net) It’s all about babysteps and the power of 15 minutes and I swear to you if you saw my house growing up versus how I live now, you would understand just how very VERY far that site has helped me come LOL. To give a bit of perspective: my sister who still lives with my mo, posted a positively ecstatic post today because the bathroom sink is working - for the first time in many years she was able to brush her teeth IN THE BATHROOM. She actually did a little dance lol!