Running to Bake: 2013

**UPDATE** This is a re-post of my Goal List from the beginning of the year! Updates/Additions are in red...and new goals added at the bottom!

EVERY year I make myself resolutions and EVERY year I forget them because a) there are so many of them and b) I never write them down.

THIS YEAR, all that will change (hopefully). I have decided I will not call them resolutions. They will be GOALS and I am splitting them up into categories: Physical/Mental Goals, Financial Goals, Work Goals & Miscellaneous. Then, I will make a plan for how to accomplish these goals...it's one thing to say it, it's another to actually DO it

Physical/Mental Goals:

~~Run a 1/2 Marathon~~

Run is booked for April 21st, 2013 - DONEEEEEEEE and you can read about it HERE

Cross Train my Workout

Zumba, Running & Tabata - DOING!

Meditate/Yoga once a week to calm my mind & stretch my muscles

This will be my new Saturday morning routine- Have done once...damn Yoga is hard. My brain does NOT want to relax

Add more Fruits and Vegetables to my diet

Make more meal plans for each week and incorporate more veggies/fruits into snacks - eh...somewhat done. Trying to eat more veggies at each meal

Reach my Goal/Healthy Weight of 150lbs

I have re-joined WW...I have lost weight on this before (and kept it off) so I am going to try again-Re-opened. Have since gained the weight back and working through that

~~De CLUTTER the apartment~~

J and I are making plans every weekend to attack a certain part of the apartment to purge - We moved! So that fixed that!

Financial Goals:

Pay off any left over VISA/School Debt

Automatically comes out of each pay cheque. Leaving ONE VISA at home so it does not get used, and keeping one in my wallet for emergency only- work in progress

Save for a Trip in the summer (We're thinking of road tripping EAST)

Also comes out of each of our pay cheques and into a savings account - went away to Philly & Washington instead in the spring. Summer trip is unlikely, looking for a new apartment instead
Went to Montreal for our 1 year anniversary!

Save for at least 1/2 a house down payment

Ditto above- Opened our RSP's so sort of starting to save for a house this way
Not quite, but getting there

~~Budget more carefully~~

Have a spreadsheet laid out for what comes out of each cheque and what money goes where We've had a few hiccups, but overall, we're getting there

Work Goals:

~~Reach 25,000 Fans on our page~~

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS WE DID IT

~~Become more organized so less gets missed/forgotten~~

Read Dad's book to learn more

Personal goal I know about but not going to put here

Miscellanious

Learn to play ONE new song on the Piano

Song: NEW SONG: To a Wild Rose - half of song learned!

~~Keep a Memory Jar~~

Has been made & started - have fallen behind in putting memories in, but will re-start this

Get a Library Card and start going to the Library! - LOVE THE LIBRARY! New fave place on earth!

**NEW GOALS for the rest of 2013**

~~FIND A NEW HOME - preferably with a backyard for our Mollycakes~~
Run another half marathon - why? Good question...mostly because I want to capture that feeling that I had last time after I finished...pure amazingness
Start selling my treats and baked goods at craft fairs/farmers markets etc. while also communicating my message of enjoying food & being healthy at the same time
Develop this this blog & my facebook page into more of a community/space for exercise hating people like me
~~Run a Colour Run - because it looks like an awesome good time, I mean, look at that...SO COOL!~~