New Year's, err, March 1st Resolutions

So I got to thinking about what I wrote the other day, (see, I'm already sticking to it, go me!) I've decided to make some other resolutions for myself and what I bring/offer to Mr C, my family and friends.

I know that I don't have a huge following.....Hello you three ;) But I think that by seeing my hopes and goals, I'll be able to motivate myself more. And you guys know that I love my lists and being able to cross things off of them.

Mr C was laughing at me because after talking about our debt payoff goals, I made a spread sheet for every month from now to 10 years out(yes 10 years) showing what each of the balances every month. (Yeah I was a little overboard) But it was so nice to see a light at the end of the tunnel. and just to clarify so that no one starts thinking we're crazy, the 10 years is for every single dollar that we owe including our trucks and mortgage! Yes we can have our house paid off in 10 years without spending more than we are right now. It was so motivating to see that.

So without further ado and in no specific order, here is my list of goals and wants, (yes, I added wants in my list also because I view them as goals also. My rule for any of the wants though is that we have to be able to pay cash for it without affecting our 10 year plan.)

Personal:

Loose weight: 30-40 pounds and just generally get in better shape.

Can you spot what is missing if this were really my salad? Yup, no gobs of ranch. Going along with the above goal, I'm going to try to eat healthier. Not that I eat terrible now, but I know there is room for improvement. Mr C and I both feel so much better after eating smaller, lighter meals that it will be a good thing for both of us. Do you like how I just included him in my goals, and he doesn't know yet.

I've gotten really lax with doing my hair and makeup. I tell myself that there isn't anywhere to get dressed up to go, but in reality I should do it for Mr. C and myself. Who cares if I'm "spending hours getting all dressed up, just to go to Shoney's on a Wednesday night" Bonus points for you if you can tell me what song that's from

Being on time. This goes without saying........maybe next year I'll actually do new resolutions during New Years instead of 3 months later...wouldn't that be something.

Household/Decorating:

New washer/dryer. One that won't move itself across the laundry room if it spins off balance.



Love, love, love this mirror from PB. It would be perfect for our living room.

This table to go directly under the mirror that I just posted.

This whole set. Wrap it up and I'll take it. I love how classic and yet how modern the chairs make it look, and they look so comfy, our family dinners always involve lots of laughing, teasing, and wine, and those chairs look like they could manage that.

Organize the sun room better. We use it for a craft room/home gym. Maybe that's why I'm less motivated to work out, it's just not fun to be in there right now. I definitely need to change that

Redo the pantry like I posted way back when. No I haven't forgotten, but Mr.C isn't gone anymore and he's not quite as for that idea.

Build an out door patio/fireplace where the pool was.

Add on/remodel deck to wrap around back of house.

Put french doors in Dining room opening out onto said deck.

Add a shade arbor to the portion of the deck directly off of the dining room.

Landscape the yard. This is a hard one because our yard is so big, and one of the lovely benefits of new construction is the complete lack of landscaping. It's just so overwhelming.

I know I'll add things to this list, but hopefully I'll be able to start crossing some things off before that. I can't add too much more to it, we'll be running out of room in our house for things.

Wow I suck at this......

I'm going to make a late New Year's (more like a random Saturday night) resolution and try to blog at least once a week. So hopefully no more 2 1/2 month spans of no blogging. I'm hoping that having a new toy (whooo hooo, yup we got a new laptop today) will help with that.

I know that so much has changed since the last time that I blogged, Mr. C and I decided that over-the road trucking wasn't for us so we turned in the trailer that we had leased after just one trip. We were very lucky and grateful for being able to change our minds on the lease. While we still have the semi, we decided that for our situation, that he's only going to run the truck in the spring/summer time for the gravel/oil hauling. Its all fairly local so he'll be home every night and it will pick up the slack for when he's slower with the swingarm business.



Speaking of the swingarms, we have been sooooo blessed with tons of orders here in the last month or so. It's such a relief when the phone rings with orders, it makes everything else seem so much more bearable.



Not that Mr. C has been slow even without the orders, since he is still working on the truck for his client. And then since we have so much free time (and free space) we bought another cab for a second truck that he'll build after this one. Maybe this will be one that we can keep for ourselves.

I've done another party since the last post but I unfortunately don't have many pictures to show yet. I was so busy during the party that we took a couple and that was about it. But I thought it turned out very cute. I'm hoping that the next purchase that we do will be for a new camera, since our current one doesn't take the best of pictures.

Speaking of (well not really, but kind of) Mr. C and I have been taking a long look at our current finances and our goals for the future. We are tossing around the idea of moving back to Cali, but we know that we want to go back with plenty of debt paid off. We know that we don't have alot, but the debt that we do will be paid off in under 2 years(aside from our mortgage) and that can be completely paid off in 10 years.

We started applying the snowball method to our bills and have been so encouraged with the results. Its so gratifying to see major changes each time we pay the bills each month.

Ok so this post was completely random and rambling, but I promise(or at least will try really, really hard) to have more interesting posts from now on. But look at the bright side, your pretty well caught up on the goings on in our lives. Don't you feel special