These were my resolutions last year: -- Lose Weight [the weight's not really an issue... just wanna get my stomach flat again] Which I actually did for a period of time
-- Save at least $1000 by Fall '06 in my ING account But then spent $700 on a trip to Rome... COME ON!
-- Eventually acquire new wardrobe/style Now I am satisfied with my wardrobe
-- Keep myself open to new experiences [clubs, friends, guys, jobs, etc] DEFINITELY did THAT: many new guys, have 3 jobs I love, love my new friends, went to new clubs, new restaurants, and went topless on South Beach [though I probably won't do that very often]
-- Get at least one modeling, dancing, or acting gig Got more than one
-- Kiss in the Miami rain Nope
-- Visit a new state or country Virginia, Maryland, Curacao
-- Get back to dancing Nope
-- Help my parents around the house [which I've already been doing a ton this winter] I try
-- Go to a Drive-in Theater. Nope
-- Go to Sea World again. Nope So I didn't do so badly last year. Well, everyone keeps asking me what my New Year's Resolutions are and I just haven't given much thought to it. But here they are as they came to me: 1.) SLOW DOWN: I'm a rusher and rush into relationships even when I think in my head "this will not last very long". But why enter a relationship if it won't last long? How about just dating? So that is what I intend to do, and actually what I have been doing for about a month now. I'll let life take me where it wills me to go. 2.) LOSE WEIGHT: I don't own a scale, don't count calories, don't have a weight loss plan... and don't intend to get one! But I will make more of an effort to move around, exercise, and eat healthily and in healthy portions [the second one gets me...] which will in turn possibly minimize the amount of weight gain that I experience once I go back to miami, which will be a plus... or minus? 3.) WORK HARD: I will try to minimize the amount of procrastination that I experience as well. I do my work but not at my full potential. I really want to up my GPA significantly this next semester and that is EXACTLY what I am going to do. 4.) SAVE MONEY: Not only do I want to save money for my trip to Rome, I also want money left over. I will do my best to minimize the amount of exess money that is spent on stupid things. If I don't get something out of it, I'm not paying for it. The end. That really cool bouncy ball will NOT give back, Leslie! 5.) RAIN: I still wanna kiss in the Miami rain... 6.) MOVIE: Still wanna go to a Drive-in Movie... maybe sometime in the summer... 7.) STEP UP MY GAME: I go to Miami... they have no game... the guys there... their game is buying girls drinks and hoping that helps them out. Well I have a high-tolerance. So why not make the most of it. I want to use my abilities and find ways to work situations, get into clubs, perfect my art of persuasion. If it gets to the point where the guy offers me a car, don't fret. I shall not take it. I just could never. Plus I can't afford insurance :P 8.) PROMOTION: Get a promotion and a raise. I can definitely do this via P.F. Chang's, since I can't take a promotion at Sprinkles. But I wanna step up from Hostess to Take-out to Server. We'll see. Also I want a raise from my basic $8/hour for all the bullshit I put up with. In March it'll have been 6 months... maybe I have to wait until then. 9.) MAKE A DIFFERENCE: I want to apply to the program that allows students FRESH outta college to go to schools that desperately need teachers and make a difference in the lives on children whose reading levels are FAR lower than they should be. 6th graders are reading at a 3rd grade level in some cities. That's disgusting. I want to do something to help. Teach for America is a legitimate teaching job and I'm considering the program in Philly. Compton is the one for Los Angeles; I do not think I'm up for the task. Besides, I want to live in a place that is different from Los Angeles or Miami. I want to live in Philadelphia or Atlanta for 2 years to see how I feel. That is my goal. To apply at the end of this year. 10.) COOK: I want to cook more, and not just like a few times a year for my family. I want to become more confidant with my cooking. I think I need a kitchen for that, huh? Well those are my resolutions. Let's see how the year pans out. XOXO! ~*LJG*~ | 
