Right now I’m watching CSI:Miami. Today’s guest stars are Michael DeLorenzo and John Schneider. I wasn’t really surprised to see John but I haven’t seen Michael in forever. It was funny because when I saw his name scroll across the scene I didn’t think it could possibly be the same person because I haven’t seen him on tv for a long time.

Most of the network shows have guest stars in their episodes and I love trying to guess who I’ll see next.

It’s the day after New Year’s Day and it’s already dragging. The day after a holiday is usually a really slow day. It just drags by and seems to go even more slowly than usual. But today feels weird. It feels like it’s a Monday instead of a Friday. I keep thinking about things that I need to do “this week”, but they’re things I really need to do next week.

The plus side is that it is Friday and the weekend is here.

Well all of the hype about the New Year is finally over. That means another year of setting resolutions that we may or may not meet. In any event, here’s my list in no particular order:

1. Graduate from school. I only need 2 classes so I should be done by summer. My advisor messed up my requirements and I can’t get one of the classes that I need or I would be done in the spring. Either way, I’m done this year.
2. Lose 1 pants size. Here I go with this again. I really do think this is doable. I plan on being a size smaller by the end of June. My ultimate goal is 2 sizes smaller but I’ll take 1 size per year.
3. Save $1400. Not a lot of money in the grand scheme of things. Since I spent most of my cash on school, I need to build the reserves back up. Most of this money will come from savings. Some of it will come from my slush fund. I always over-budget things like home insurance, so once the bill is paid, any extra money goes into the slush/savings fund.
4. Pay between $310-475 on my car. I didn’t even come close to this goal this year. I plan on paying a small amount each month just on the principal of the car.
5. Write more. A lot more. I have 2 stories that are brewing and I want them done this year. Once they’re done, I’ll assess where I’m at and decide whether I want to continue writing or not.
6. Bump my 401k by at least 1% this year. When I get my raise, I’ll add the money. My goal is to raise my contributions by 1% per year until I max out.
7. Pay off my credit card by December. The bill is less than $1k but with so many other places that my money is going, this may be a stretch. 0% interest really helps.
8. Work towards my net worth being 10k. My net worth was 7k last year but I spent my cash, the economy tanked and I didn’t do an update after March. This is the year I get back on track.

There you have it. Not too lofty but very challenging. Here’s hoping everyone makes their 2009 goals!

Well the year is rapidly drawing to a close. This is a update on how I did with this years resolutions.

1. Yes/No - I did save the amount that I wanted but I had to later spend it for school.
2. No - I won’t graduate in 2008.
3. No - I was supposed to pay $469.08 off of the principal of my car. I didn’t even come close to that amount, it was more like $75. I also have no idea why I made it such an odd amount.
4. Yes - did get a new job in March of this year so I was right on target with that goal.
5. No - I didn’t increase my net worth to 10k. Part of it was because I spent almost all of my available cash, but the economy tanking had a lot to do with it as well.
6. Yes/No - I did lose a pants size, that’s the yes. But there’s also a no because I didn’t get to the size I wanted. I wanted to go from a 14 to a 12. However I started at a size 16. I didn’t realize this until well after the fact. Anyway, I did lose a size and get to a 14 so I did make some progress.

Not a total failure but not where I wanted to be either. I do know that I will work much harder to make my 2009 goals come true. I’ll be posting the new resolutions tomorrow.

Have a safe and Happy New Year!

Tomorrows post will be where I ended up in 2008, which isn’t very pleasant. Then on New Year’s Day, I will post my 2009 resolutions. Now I need to spend the rest of today drafting all of my numbers and figures. What fun, not!

I made yesterday my spa day. After I watched 2 football games I went and started my treatment. I took a nice long bubble bath. I exfoliated and just really pampered myself. I think it took me at least 90 minutes in all. I felt really good once I got done. I plan on doing this more often.

Then only downfall is that I scrubbed a little too hard so my skin pretty sensitive today. Now I know the next time to take it easy. And there will definitely be a next time.

I’m way behind on my savings goals. I spent most of my cash this year paying for school. Doing that caused me to dip into my savings account as well as use my regular paycheck money. Now I’m trying to think of ways to bring some extra money in. With 1 or 2 classes in the spring, a second job is almost out of the picture. I’m thinking about starting another home based business but I haven’t decided what I want to do yet. I don’t want to open another store because I don’t want to have to worry about inventory.

If I would get my writing together, I could probably do that free-lance. Now I just need to get motivated and start writing.