New Year's Resolutions

i usually don't even bother to do resolutions, because i know i won't remember to do them, but this year i decided it was worth a try. i'm hoing i'll be able to stick to them, and to help with that i decided to tell everyone about them so maybe i'll feel like i actually have to follow up with them. so here they are:

• Make My House A Home - i want to make our apartment cute and homey and i want it to be the kind of place that people can walk into and know its a good place to be. i love nicely decorated homes, but i don't have the skills for it. so i'm going to do my best to learn. i hate that our apartment looks like a bunch of junk just thrown together. i want to learn how to decorate our house in the style i like. but just fyi i'm probably not going to start this goal until after we move. i think theres no sense in redoing everything when i've got to start packing it up soon anyways.
• Cultivate My Talents - i want to spend more time doing things i used to love doing, but always find myself saying i don't have time for anymore. i used to love photography, but quit doing it. i used to love playing the piano, but don't ever practice. i want to improve the talents i already have this year, as well as discover some new ones.
• Learn To Love Exercise - i'm hoping that this year i can learn to make exercising  a consistent part of my life. i hate that i feel like even doing 20 minutes is a horrible chore. tons of people LOVE working out, and do it every single day. i am hoping that i can become one of those people eventually and not have it be a torture for me. i'm sensible enough to know that it won't come automatically, so the goal i'm going to try is to do some sort of activity atleast 5 times a week, even if its short. its hard to do workouts with Connor, so my "exercising" usually isn't much of a workout, its often only 20 minutes or just a long walk. but i'm not pushing my self to loose a certain amount of weight or anything like that, i just want to have healthy habits. thats why i think even small efforts will accomplish the job.
• Catch Up on Scrapbooking - by the end of this year i hope to be caught up on the last two years. i haven't done anything since i scrapped our wedding and i've barely started Connor's book. but i know its just going to keep adding up if i don't start soon. i don't particularly like scrapbooking, but i feel like documenting our lives is something important to do, so i'm hoping if i set the goal it will encourage me to do it.

they may not be the best goals you've ever heard of, but they're the right kind for me. i've got all year to do them, so i'm not going to be beating myself up about not doing them fast enough. i didn't want any goals that would make me feel discouraged. i think all of these goals are ones that i can easily restart if i slack off and still be able to complete the main point without having to feel like a failure. i'm hoping that each goal will help enrich my life and be a good experience for me.