February wrap up

So, February is on it's way out and what a waste of a month it has been.

I did not keep my revised resolutions. Though, I did manage to keep my original ones - make the bed every day and no fries.

The only exceptions were a few days when I was sick, I was sleeping either on the floor close to the bathroom or on the couch. So I wasn't making my bed those days, but I even made my BFs bed on the weekends. So far it has not translated to keeping anything else clean.  And the one time I had tater tots with my lunch (they're fry-like), but I didn't eat all of them. I shared them with my BF and my good friend's kid (amazing how a child doesn't finish their meal, but has room for tots. It's okay, she's a good kid and who can blame her, I'd take tots over a burger too).

So, the moral of this story is once my mind is set on what I am doing for the month, saying a new goal is better, isn't gonna get it done. With that in mind I am still going to give myself my reward for finishing the month with my original resolutions completed. Out of 28 days in February I only messed up a total of 4 times, which means I get $26 to spend minus the $5 over from January - $21. Not bad. My plan is to hit up Joann's or Michaels and buy some frames for some cool dance pictures I photoshop-ed online. I think with coupons or sales I can do it for about $20, because I plan on printing them on normal paper at Fed Ex.

Anyway, March starts tomorrow and so do new resolutions.  I am getting ready for No TV at all. The BF says I have to be our weekend planner if we can't sit around and watch TV together.  I'm also planning on flossing every day. I have not had dental insurance since 2007 and I fear what shape my teeth will be in when I finally get to see one, if I ever get health insurance again. I could be way better about taking care of my teeth (like not eating so much candy!).

I also added some other goals - not so much daily resolutions, just additional things I'd like to work on. I got the idea from reading "The Happiness Project" It's a good book and she also worked on different areas of her life, or attitude, each month. She had a lot of goals too, and kept track of them on a chart. I'm not going that far.

Anyway those goals are:

• keep to a workout schedule
• go on the Fat Smash diet
• apply to 3 jobs a week 

The point of this is to build on my January exercise resolution  with the goal of running a 5k run under 30 minutes (I'll work on getting it lower for my later races - trying to convince the BF to do a Warrior Dash in June). The plan is alternating running with yoga or circuit like 30DS.

For job applications I am aiming to get down the amount of time I spend on each to only an hour for writing the cover letter, tweaking my resume, editing and sending. I know it won't start out like that, but I think I just need get over the fear. I've also been spending a lot of time on Askamanager.org and she says to only spend 20minutes writing a cover letter.  Also, as each month goes on with out a job offer the number of apps per week will increase (4 in April, 5 in May, etc). *No more word from the HR lady I was talking to. Sending her an email in the morning to see where things are at, but my hopes are not high. Thanks for the encouraging comments about it.*

Finally, the Fat Smash diet has worked for me before. The beginning is hard, but it is do-able.  It is very close to how I'd ideally like to be eating anyway.  I figure I'll end up cheating a little bit on the weekends with the BF (like 2-3 meals), but over all I am hoping it will help me get back to healthy eating. I still haven't budged any weight and I know it's because I keep succumbing to eating too much crap. I think 2 weeks on the initial phase with a couple cheat days because of the BF, then into the other phases, which I have never made it to, but since it's a goal for all of March I should be able to make it.

I have my appointment to cut my hair made for the end of March. I've decided I am going with a pixie cut no matter how much I weigh. The BF really likes my hair when it's up and said that he thinks it'll look great on me, which was big fear of mine, that he'd hate it. Also, I have to stop putting pressure on myself with short term goals and figure that my diet needs an over-haul for the long term.

I'm using Ginnifer Goodwin as my inspiration. Because even when she looks like she's got "rounder" cheeks, she rocks the short cut. I figure if she can, so can I.

Michelle Williams is another one that can pull it off even with a "rounder" face. And obviously when I say "rounder" I don't mean fat. They have little chins. Also, I think it's something about the pixie cut, those cheekbones just pop out.