Wordless Wednesday

 

Late start to the morning meant getting to see the sunrise on my drive to work.

Hoosier Love

When I moved here, I could count the people I knew in this state on two hands; those I knew well I only needed one. I had spent my whole life making friends with those I was in school with, worked with, or were in some sort of organization with. I had never had to "venture out" to make new friends outside of these social situations, and I was a little nervous.

Six months later, I feel the Hoosier love. We spent three of the last four nights out with coworkers, old friends, and a somewhat new set of friends, which might be more nights out than we spent in all of October. It's been wonderful to get out of the house and laugh with A's coworkers, catch up with an old friend of mine (after 3+ years), and get to know a sister better, all in our new town.

While none of these people would consider themselves "Hoosiers" (we're probably the closest), it's been great to feel as if we belong here and this is our new home. There's no better way to see a city, than through new eyes, and to fall in love with it more and more through those eyes...

2014 Goals

I had a Facebook friend make a comment around New Years that I completely agree with, and yet, tend to not do as much as I should:

"Yes, today is the last day of 2013... But it should not be the one day of the year you look back and reflect on your life. Today is just a day. Live it, and every other day, to the fullest."

So, I still (briefly) looked back at 2013, forward to 2014, and created some goals for the next year:

*Keep up with the fitness/exercise routine (and improve on it). Maybe one day, I'll add some better eating components, but for now, I'm just trying to stay away from the horrible foods and continue to aim for getting a cardio exercise in more days than not.

*Live more. See my friends comment above. Life is short, it's too silly not to live it.

*Blog more. Which means setting aside time to reflect, write, and post. I've got another blog where I tried to create a mini-bucket list, and then write about accomplishing them (here). My goal is to post to it every month, and to post to this one at least once a week. I tend to forget about both of them after I created them (and as I get busy), so between the two of them, hopefully I can accomplish this goal.

*Capture a moment everyday. I've started this one already, and am still going strong! I'm posting the pictures to Instagram (anderson343; ask to follow me, I'll agree!) with the tag #365photos. And while the photos don't always get posted on the day they're taken, I'm still getting one a day and posting them! I'm debating on creating a Flickr account as well, but we shall see...

*Sew more. Or craft more. Or just be creative more. I work at a desk, will be attempting to write and exercise more, but I want to use my hands and mind in creating things. So I shall. Very likely once it's lighter longer, as my sewing machine room doesn't have a lot of lighting...

Five goals isn't many goals, but hopefully they're all goals that can be achieved with effort and persistence.

What are your goals, friends?

Starting 2014 Right...

Sometimes, I set (too) lofty of goals to start with, and end up faltering before I get off the ground. Case in point, blogging. Ugh.

It's something I really love, but something that requires more time than I ever think about or acknowledge, causing me to keep starting and stopping. I'm really good at starting when I don't have anything to occupy my time, and stopping once I've found something to occupy my time! My goal for 2014 is to be much better about blogging regularly, but to also cut myself some slack and move my goal number of posts down from two-per-week to just one-per-week. It seems a little like a cop-out, but I'm hoping starting (again) slowly will help me continue!

So here's to another year (and another start), with hopefully not a stop in the near future!