Jennifer - 01.02.10

Wow, writing that date is WEIRD! I know for the next month, I'll still be writing 09 on everything. Good thing I teach math and usually write in pencil. The 2nd day of 2010 is here. The fates are already trying to sabotage me with a cold that makes me feel as though I need to sleep for 100 years. I will not be thwarted! I will make some progress daily no matter how small.

1. Becoming Lean & Fit: I didn't eat that much today except for dinner. I grazed a bit on two pieces of chocolate, slice of homemade banana nut bread, and lots of water and medicine.
   
2. Purge & organize house: House is still really clean. I hope to keep up with it all when I start back to work Monday. The school year is so hard due to long days and the boys aren't as OCD as I am about things in their place. I think I will update a cleaning schedule and this year I'll assign jobs. I just can't do it all. In the end I'd rather have help than no help even if it's not quite the way I would've done it. 
   
3. Frugal Living: two days down... NO spending. I'm challenging myself this month to not spend any $ unless it is absolutely 100% necessary. We went to the movies last night, but used a gift card. I fully expected to pay some out-of-pocket (oop), but the girl gave us the matinee pricing. Awesome! 3 tickets + 2 drinks = $25 gift card & $0 OOP. Tomorrow I'll have to go to grocery for bread, guinea pig pellets, etc.
   
4. Dave Ramsey's 7 Baby Steps: paid bills online for Jan, budgeted for $1000 ER fund. Looking for ways to be frugal and maximize positive impact of tutoring $.
   
5. Organize photos/memorabilia: Damian's "Through the Years" photo frame is now updated for Kinder thru 5th grade. I've also spent two days going through my gmail and yahoo accounts to download all photos that I've been storing in my email. They are now on my Toshiba external hard drive. Next is to copy photos I have on miscellaneous CDs onto the Toshiba. They will be safe and well organized there. 
6. Purge/organize household files: none today, I will schedule this on my January calendar. I think I need to make a date of it.
   
7. Medical/dental objectives: Looked up foot doc for Eric. She is on our insurance and now I just need to contact her for an appointment. 
8. Hanging out with Damian: Actually, today Eric and Damian have played the Wii quite a bit. They are bonding so I'm just blogging, reading and wishing I felt better.
   
9. My quiet time: blogging, reading and wishing I felt better.
10. Cars assessed and fixed: Neon has started. I need to call Tom about an assessment price and work that into budget. Need to pick up stoplight switch from Auto Zone tomorrow and replace switch in Buick. That may have to wait till the weekend.
    
11. Celebrations / Traditions: emailed siblings about 2010 collaborative gifts for parents (waiting on responses)