Resolute

2008: a year to acquire the desires of my heart

This promises to be a big year for Tim and I. The two events in the forefront of my mind, are the trip to Paris for my birthday, and after that, the start (hopefully) of our little family. I have wanted to go to Paris my entire life, and decided to wait until 6 months before the trip to start learning french. :) So, hopefully that goes well. As for starting our family, the plan has been in the works for some time. 29 seems like a good age to begin that adventure.

I gave up meat, caffeine, and smoking 2 months ago and have committed to those goals with quite a fervor. I told myself that there was simply no option to go back. This is not a New Year's Resolution, but a lifestyle shift. My resolutions are much more direct and mostly everything I do in my daily life is to prepare for these two events. I always crowd my New Year's Resolution list with too many goals, so this year, I'm keeping it short and simple.

1) Go to Paris.

2) Start a family.


They have subgoals, to be sure. Things like:

1) Learn French (right now I only know, "Un fille sous une avion!"
2) File for official name change (so that my passport has my married name)
3) Get Passport (with a flattering picture)
4) Buy a beret (hahahaha, just kidding!)

and:

1) Quit smoking (check!)
2) Cleanse body to ensure optimum health (working on it!)
3) Lose some extra pounds and build some muscle (working on it!)
4) Buy house with an extra bedroom for the baby (yikes!)
5) Get Tim to buy into the gaelic spelling of the names I like (yeah right!)
6) Get Tim to cut down his bacon habit to 2 slices a day. (sure!)

At any rate, it's going to be a busy year and promises to be very exciting. I think this will be the year that I have the most to talk about. I'm excited at the prospect of learning another language (in more ways than one) and as my mother put it, "learning to put others first." Being married requires some degree of sacrifice, but Tim being as easy going as he is, allows me a lot of freedom to be pretty selfish. I'm preparing for a paradigm shift in that respect. I'm trying to wrap my head around the idea of caring for someone else more than myself. I'm sort of giddy at the prospect, actually.

I hope you all had a happy New Year and I wish you the best of luck in accomplishing your resolutions.

~erin