On getting out of the house.

During the winter I tend to hibernate. My husband also works late hours. Therefore, I am by myself...a lot. However, I tend to get stir crazy if I am by myself for too long, especially when I don't leave the house. Thank God for friends who are in town for the holidays. I met up with my good friend Julie for lunch at Tim Horton's (and here I thought it was just a coffee & donut shop!) and then for ice cream at Graeter's. Yes, ice cream in December....gotta get my buckeye blitz fix! It was so nice to catch up and interact with a human being. I also used my time out of the house to get a bunch of errands accomplished that I had been putting off!

Are you an extrovert who needs to hang out with people in order to avoid going crazy or an introvert who doesn't mind spending a lot of time alone?

Numbers 12, 13, 14, 17, 27, 37, 38

I didn't complete a lot of my goals this week that I have set for myself. I have not "failed" at my goals, however. I am just going to strive to complete them and not beat myself up for not doing something last week. It's only the first week for a lot of my goals! I have time. Additionally, I understand that life can get in the way - it was supposed to be my last week of work, but for unforeseen reasons I am now working the next 2 weeks a few hours here and there to help out. So last week became a weird week and I lost motivation.

Number 12: I did keep in touch with my parents this past week, even though most of our talking was random little moments about my car and me coming to visit this week.

Number 13 & 14: I did not keep in touch with my brother or Grandpa this week so I will need to work on this! This is an especially important goal for me so I really want to focus on this.

Number 17: I hung out with friends this past Friday night. I got invited to Adrian's mom's house for dinner so I went with him and Erin to eat and then to Korrin's house later that night to hang out and play Apples to Apples.


Number 24: I completed Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress. I enjoyed the book and have decided to let others enjoy it too by joining swaptree.com. In fact, someone has already requested the book so I am going to send it out later this week!

Number 27: This is one goal that I have kept up on! I have read the main highlights from cnn.com and msnbc.com through Google Reader. I have found that this is a great way to get a daily dose of the news.

Number 37 & 38: I did not complete my exercising for this week. I need to work on some type of schedule so that this will be easier for me to do. I did find some old magazine articles on various exercises so I do intend to use these for strength training and even a little cardio too. Additionally, I rented 3 DVDs from the library that I want to try out. This goal is one that I am really going to have to kick my butt to get done because when I get busy exercising is usually the first thing to go!

Number 17

Jon and I hung out with Erik & Amanda tonight to celebrate Amanda's upcoming birthday! We got some Mexican food, grabbed some ice cream on the way home, and then played Scattergories and Rock Band 2. I'm so glad that we have become friends with them since so many of our friends have moved away in the past year. I look forward to hanging out more in the coming months - since we have no idea where we will end up once summer gets here. It all depends on where I find a teaching job!

Erik & Amanda hanging out at the restaurant. Too bad we didn't get a picture with all of us!

Numbers 15 & 17

I have actually seen my family a number of times this month, especially with the holiday season. I first saw them the weekend before Christmas. Jon and I went to town for a Christmas party with friends and stayed at their house that night. We then went out to breakfast and to my Grandpa's house to decorate his Christmas tree the next day. I saw my family again over the Christmas holiday. We went out to eat for my parents' anniversary and to my Grandpa's house to see extended family for Christmas Eve. On Christmas Day we ventured to my parents' house again for Christmas dinner and to hang out.

My mom and I on Christmas Eve at my Grandpa's.

My Grandpa and I on Christmas Eve.

I have also hung out with my friends a lot this month, again due to the holiday season. We had our annual Christmas party early in the month and an ugly Christmas sweater party just before Christmas. Jon and I hung out with Andy & Ashley right after Christmas where we went out to eat and then to see a movie. I also hung out with two of my good friends, Erin & Adrian, as we are all on vacation right now and were looking for something to do! We ended up going to Sam's Club & Target, then coming back to my apartment and making chocolate chip cookies. We will also get to hang out with friends tonight when we have people over for New Year's Eve!

Ugly Christmas sweater party!

The girls at our annual Christmas party.