New Years Eve

Last blog of the year...I didn't start blogging till this year, it's a new experience for me. I've had a journal online at Livejournal, I have a myspace page, I even have something at runbud, but nothing has stuck the way this one has. I have paper journals too, which I'd like to maintain better, but for some reason they have never lasted either.

My resolutions for the new year.

1. SIMPLIFY/DECLUTTER - I have so much junk and crap around that I don't need (boxes that are still in my garage never unpacked in the 5 1/2 years I've lived in my current home) obviously I have no great need for the stuff and I REALLY want to have a less cluttered messy home and life
   
2. JOIN A RUNNING CLUB - Finally join one of the running clubs I've talked so much about doing but never have, hopefully it will help me to make some new friends too
3. WEIGHT/FITNESS - Get down to the weight that I have deemed my proper marathon weight and tone up my body for perfect running
   
4. READ - I have a number of books: ChiRunning, Advanced Marathoning, Competitive Runner's Handbook and Jack Daniels' Running Formula to name a few that I have been wanting to read and use to full advantage to really get my running where I want it to be
5. RUN - I think that's a given, it's what I do, but I want to really increase and improve on it even more so than last year. I hope to race a 5K and get in under 22 minutes, at least for now that's my goal, I'd like to run another 10K (have only run one) and I think that can easily go under 48 minutes, half marathon I think I have it in me to run under 1:40 and of course the marathon, which I have to decide on yet, but if I do one next year, I'm going for broke on it. I want a BQ. If I'm going to run Boston, I want to run it in 2008. The olympic trials are the day before, imagine being able to watch the best of the best in distance runners run the same course I plan to run the next day, to get to their olympic dreams...talk about inspiring.
   
6. WORK - I need to find a new job, well, two new jobs actually. I need something that allows some creative outlet, something that I really enjoy, I don't dread mine yet, but I don't love going to work and I get bored, I don't want that, I want something new and challenging and I want to eventually get more education and I want a company that will help me achieve that.
   
7. PERSONAL - This is the tricky part. I don't know what I want in my personal life. Well, I do know I want/need more people in my life. I don't go out that often anymore, but when I do, I'd like more people to be able to call on, new people to do things with, etc...I still don't think I want to be involved in a relationship with someone else, but I'd like a lot more friendships.

And now it's time to prepare myself for this evening...still debating on the cute little black dress or the miniskirt and sassy silvery top....even with the crud that Denver sent us, I still plan to dress up and have a good time!!

Everyone have a safe and happy New Years Eve and a splendid 2007.