Resolution Breakdown - March
DUDES.
How are we doing with our resolutions?
Why did I not just pick one thing to change about myself this year like ‘get a hook to hang up your wet towels instead of throwing them over the doors in your room’??
That sounds easy.
My resolutions just sound ridiculous at this point.
BUT I WILL NOT BE BROKEN DOWN. OH NO I WILL NOT. So here we go.
February Recap!!
FRIENDSHIP
get together with married Ashley - SUCCESS! We got breakfast a few weeks ago before going to work! It was so fun! And delicious!
get together with non-married Ashley - FAIL/SUCCESS! I did NOT do this in February but we have plans to get some drinks next week so I’m going to go ahead and count that as a success and hey February doesn’t have as many days as the other months so IT MADE THIS WHOLE THING HARDER.
call D and see if he wants to get Thai food - epic FAIL here because I can’t seem to find the time. (The above drink date got penciled in about a month ago. HOW ABOUT THAT? I suck.)
HEALTH
try a different class at the yoga studio - SUCCESS! On Valentine’s Day, I went to both hot yoga AND hot pilates which is essentially, a pilates class in the hot yoga room. It is an hour of torture that sadly didn’t really kill my abs but annihilated my inner thighs. I had trouble walking for about three days and the soreness didn’t go away completely for a full week. A WEEK, PEOPLE. I keep trying to find the time to go back but they sadly offer the class only a handful of times and I can’t seem to make it work. AND YET. SUCCESS!
keep going with the no-sugar-during-the-week thing - This is hilarious because I had two donuts today. And a vegan chocolate cupcake yesterday. And a mini Twix on Tuesday. And…YOU GET THE IDEA. February fails in the sugar department. I blame all the snow.
CAREER
I succeeded at writing down a new show idea AND a song list. A new improv class has not opened up this ENTIRE MONTH which is so frustrating to me but I joined a practice group which begins this weekend so that’s sort of great? I did not make it to a ballet class. So, some success, some failure, c’est la vie.
MONEY
pay another $300 down on the credit card - Actually, I paid $500 down. And then my car broke down and I paid $700 to fix it. All on the credit card. FAIL.
pay for new bed in cash - charged this baby too but immediately paid it down. SUCCESS!
SPIRITUALITY
get your damn self up 30 minutes earlier to solidify AM meditation HA HA HA. The funny thing I forgot was if I got up 30 minutes earlier, I would die by 7 pm because I am a toddler who needs tons of sleep. I am amending this item for March and it is going to say GO TO BED 30 MINUTES EARLIER. We’ll see how that goes.
pray/pause between meals - FAIL. Completely forgot to start doing this. March, the Lenten month of doom, seems like a good time to try again.
OTHER
join the freaking library/check out Ulysses and Italian CD’s - HAHAHAHAHHAA! A branch of the library five blocks from my apartment! And another one five steps from my office! AND I STILL HAVE NOT JOINED THE LIBRARY! This is getting hilarious, you guys. HILARIOUS I SAY. The reason this has yet to happen is because I still haven’t run out of reading material from Christmas and also, I found an alternative to learning Italian that doesn’t require Italian CD’s. More to come on that in a bit! But I will say that once I run out of books, I will HAVE to get to the library. So far though, still speeding through novels my dad bought me over the holidays. WOO!
sell old bed on Craigslist - Decided to keep old bed in apartment. Am currently lending it to my new roommate who moved in and did not have a bed. I’m not getting any extra money for it but I figure she’s a recent college grad who could use a free bed so WHY NOT?
And now, without further ado, some new resolutions for March! I’m going to reduce these a bit as this month is already underway and I already added a big commitment or two.
FRIENDSHIP
* Call D and see if he wants to get Thai food
* Make plans with M
HEALTH
* no sugar during the week! PUT DOWN THE MINI TWIX!
* go back to Hot Pilates so your inner thighs can ache some more
CAREER
* set up a time to meet with accompanist and run through song ideas for new show! RECORD IT!
* sign up for improv class if one opens up
MONEY
* cancel Blockbuster online subscription AKA Waste of Cash, You Never Watch The Movies That Show Up In The Mail
SPIRITUALITY
* go to bed half an hour earlier in order to get up earlier so you can meditate in the AM
* pick a Sunday and go to church during Lent
* pray/pause before meals
OTHER
* buy a hamper - YOUR LIFE IS SO FASCINATING!
BONUSES THAT HAPPENED THIS MONTH!!!
So! Here we go! Fun things that happened that were not planned at all!
I booked a commercial you guys!
Not a huge one. It shall not be on the television. It will be on La Internet. But whatever! It’s great! This is important because I have wanted to book some acting work FOR A VERY LONG TIME and even though it was one day of shooting and the pay was small and I knew the person who cast me in it, IT WAS A FANTASTIC TIME! And I was proud.
Also! Because that commercial paid me a tiny bit of pocket change and because the federal government is offering me a tax refund as their way of saying thanks for voting for Obama, I was able to not only pay off my car repairs but register to take a REAL! LIVE! ITALIAN CLASS!
HEY MAMBO! MAMBO ITALIANO YEAH!
OH GOSH! I’m SO EXCITED!
Screw getting CD’s from the library! THAT IS FOR SISSIES!
I do better when I have people there to teach me. AM I RIGHT? And a financial incentive to show up. So starting next Saturday, for ten straight weeks, I am heading over to the Italian Language and Cultural Center on the Upper East Side to take some lessons. Grammar and conversation! Like a real ITALIANO! GRAZI! PIZZA! WHAT! How exciting!
And so begins my tackling of Mondo Beyondo #3. Speak Two Languages Fluently.
I am obviously not planning on becoming fluent in ten weeks or even in a year. But this is a start. And it makes me so happy! It’s a class that has nothing to do with my career, no pressure to succeed, learning for learning’s sake which I love love love!
Also this, from their website:
Depending on the time of your class, you’ll be served either cappuccino or sparkling Prosecco while learning the bella lingua and the bella vita of Italy.
I’m guessing Saturday mornings don’t qualify for me for sparkling Presecco but A GIRL CAN DREAM, CAN’T SHE?!
Wow, guys! March is going to rock!
Congrats on the commercial, you rockstar! I assume you will provide the link in due time?
Have you considered the possibility that the reason you need tons of sleep is because you sleep too much? How many hours do you sleep a night?
Andrea - Yes! I will. If it’s not horribly bad.
Tim - Ah, I can pretty much guarantee that too much sleep is not my problem. Lately I’ve been averaging between 6-7 hours of sleep. My magic number is 10, which, of course is laughable because who really gets that much sleep and is still able to…have a job. And stuff? A few years ago, I was in San Diego with the twins and I stayed on their schedule of going to bed at 9 and getting up at 7 and it was, I KID YOU NOT, the most incredible week of my life. I had never felt better. Ever. I’d like to aim for a bed time around 10 pm or so but it never seems to work. You’d think I’d have the incentive to do so, knowing how good I feel when well-rested but oh, it’s hard.
Bummer. How long is your commute? That one week where you got ten hours of sleep a night was probably incredible because you usually don’t get enough sleep. So your body was catching up. I think if you regularly got ten hours of sleep a night it would eventually become more lethargy-inducing rather than refreshing. Or maybe it would just be spectacular and your life would blossom into bounteous wonder like the legendary petunia grandiosa of Papua New Guinea.
Tim - You are correct. I bet if I had another solid week of 10 hour sleep, my body would be caught up and wouldn’t need that regularly. Maybe just 9.5.
HA. My commute is only 25 minutes so there is NO EXCUSE for my lack of sleep. I just really really like 7 am yoga class. But God do I want to frame the phrase ‘your life would blossom into bounteous wonder like the legendary petunia grandiosa of Papua New Guinea’. MY GOD.
Yeah, that’s probably the second greatest sentence I’ve ever written in my life.
Gosh, who doesn’t need new credit file?
HA. That Sheila lady was pure spam.
The need for sleep comes from my side of the family…but when she was little she slept the least number of hours at night and no nap from about 2 1/2 years old. I now sleep just about 6-7 hours…role reversal?