New Year's Resolutions and other stuff I'd like to do

For the first time ever, I made a list of goals for the year. I like to think that goals and resolutions are different. Resolutions seem to be things you wish you could do. Goals, for me anyway, are things you are planning to do.

This year, I am adopting the attitude of "there is no try, there is do or do not." Or whatever Yoda says.

My goals center around my weight and my health, but also around my attitude in general, as well as spending time with my kids as individuals and alone time with my husband.

Last year was a weird, hard, sad year for me. It was full of wake-up calls, loss, and feeling lost, but also full of opportunity, which I feel I wasted.

I am taking this year by the horns, and wrestling it down to the ground. I'm making 2010 my bitch.

On my list of goals: reach my goal weight, be more patient with the kids, be more positive, spend a weekend alone with my husband (something we haven't done since 2005), take another mommy-daughter trip, take a mommy-son trip with my oldest son, and finally get our finances in order.

I'd also like to figure out what I'm going to be when I grow up, since the last year was spent reflecting on whether or not I really wanted to be a lawyer. I just paid my bar dues for 2010, so I guess I'm going to be one for at least another year. (At $450 to renew my bar dues, I suppose I should make the most of the money spent!).

Big goals? Maybe, but I don't think any of them are not doable.