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In some ways it was a little easier getting out of bed this morning knowing it was Thursday and not Monday!
It has been challenging keeping the days straight with all of the holiday breaks and weekends but you won't hear me complaining! Receiving breaks in between the daily hustle and bustle makes things a little easier to cope with!

My New Years plans didn't occur until yesterday. A little last minute don't ya think? Oh, just living carelessly on the wild side I would suppose? Sounds better than "I could have really given a crap what happened, I planned on going with the flow."

I never have celebrated with my family on big holidays such as New Years or St Patrick's Day. We usually stick with our closest friends and party the night away. This year was different! I was able to celebrate New Years with my brother and his girlfriend! For the last few years we have went to the casino.

The atmosphere is great, the band plays great music and usually a lot of freebies are being given out. This year didn't live up to past years. The theme was a Hawaiian theme and the band didn't play anything current. Wah wah. What a disappointment. Who thinks a luau on New Years is a great idea? Although we were with good company and a few others showed up at the last minute, I can say next year will not be the same. I plan on finding something completely different and changing up the "tradition".

On a different (positive note), I spent New Years day completing my second of three books I have been trying to finish and enjoyed sleeping in and Starbucks!

I also pulled the very appropriate and most comfy sweater out and rocked it all day!

I even stuck to my resolution and made a great home cooked meal!!

How was your New Years Eve and day?

A New Plan: 2014

Among the thousands of human beings on this Earth, I too decided to make a list of New Years resolutions.

Simple, short and to the point is what I like to call it. I try to not to set goals for myself that are unreasonable.

For example, diet, exercise or giving up Starbucks. I know I can my maintain my weight with discipline and that finding me on a piece of exercise equipment screams laughter. 

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Starbucks, well I have an addiction. Maybe I won't give it up but I can tone it down a notch. How can you maintain a gold card holder status if you aren't in love with lattes? Hello, it's not rocket science :)

As a recap, here are the resolutions from last year!

This year the list is much shorter, maintainable and will hopefully become life changing.

1. Patience
I lack and have always lacked patience. My road rage is horrible, my lack of tolerance for stupidity is very low and my stress level has spun out of control. My patience affects not only me but others around me and I hope to find something or someone that can pull this negative part of me out.

2. Homemade Meals
It is much easier to come home from a long day and then decide to run out and grab fast food. I am worn out, my mind is frazzled and going back to the patience factor, dinners and lunches aren't happening like I planned. I use gas, spend additional money and feel like a sack of crap after eating it. My goal would be to have one meal a week that isn't homemade or prepped in my lunch sack. Sitting around the dining room table eating over a home cooked plate of food always feels good after it is complete. Home is where the heart and food is!

3. Save and tackle debt
Every week for the year of 2013 I deposited $25 a week into my savings acct. I did this religiously and saved $1200 towards my Christmas fund. It felt great to buy whatever I wanted for others and know that I wasn't breaking my checking account. This year I plan to up that amount to $50. This is the first step I am taking to tackle all of my debt. Which in reality is not that much. I have put it on the back burner and cannot live with it on my conscious a minute longer. This is the second step, admitting a task you have been avoiding.

I feel completely confident that if I stick to my goals I can achieve all three. Determination, strength and a positive state of mind and outlook is all I need. I am hoping that the year 2014 ends up being one of the best years of my life.

Tonight, with my wine in hand, I plan to cheers to moving on from the past, living for today and building a more maintainable and happy future for myself and family!

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