Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Let's try Not to Screw These Up

The following are my New Year Resolutions:


  • Blog more often
  • Go to the gym on a regular basis
  • Cook more, eat out less
  • Take and pass my NCIDQ exam

    Resolution number 1 was also a resolution for 2008. Although not my strongest effort, I think I did a decent job of getting blogs up every so often but I would like to do better this year.

    Resolution number 2 came about around May of 2008 when I observed a curious situation beginning with my pants… i.e. they didn’t fit. An attempt was made (prepare for incoming excuses) but between moving to ABQ, renting a room smaller than a dorm room from one of Jason’s friends, working on the house, and generally not having a “routine” thwarted all efforts to get on a gym schedule. This shall change in the 2009 because I cannot by new pants!

    Resolution number 3 is also part of resolution number 2. In the past 6 months Jason and I have spent almost $1,000 on food, $100-200 of which was groceries… that’s bad. In addition to the cost, it hurts the waist line (and the hips and thighs and the double chins, etc.)We used to cook all the time together, share portions are restaurants and that worked well for us until, of course, May. However, soon we will have our own kitchen (with a dishwasher) to cook in and we plan to do a lot of cooking—anyone have a great recipe?

    Resolution number 4 is already underway. NCIDQ is the national certification for interior design qualifications and is the exam which measures a designers minimum competency and is similar to the architect’s ARE exam, which qualifies them to actually BE an architect. I have applied and been accepted to take the exam and thus registered (and paid) for my exam on April 3rd and 4th in Denver, Colorado. I have a study guide and D/P/S also has study materials which I will break in to beginning in February.
    Alright, those are my resolutions… let’s see how I do.

    Happy Belated New year all!

  • 2 comments:

    b. f. g. said...

    keep up with your resolutions, yo! i hate everyone but i like you, which is sayin' a lot! hope all is well! xoxox

    Joey said...

    Katie....you failed miserably with your New Year's Resolution to blog more often.