2 Things I'm Not Doing This Year

so in addition to my new year's resolutions, there are two things that i'm not doing this year.

1.) i am not buying any clothes.

2.) i am going to quit eating french fries.

both of these are going to be the hardest things i've done in a while. you know how they have the little circle thing letting you know where your money went? over 3/4 of mine went to clothing stores. and that is why my closet is overfilling, and yet for some reason, i never have anything to wear. so i had been following some of those people who have done the 30 for 30 clothing remix, and got the inspiration to be creative with what i do own. i have never considered myself a very fashionable person, so maybe this will force me to look outside the box. which inevitably is the goal.

one of my goals this year was to eat healthier foods. french fries are my biggest enemy. i love these things. from anywhere. so, i am going to torture myself for as long as i can. i am not promising anything, but i will try.

so to keep myself smiling while i'm trying to accomplish this, i will imagine that i have a room like this with a job like this (putting these kinds of rooms together and photographing them). i hope to be back later tonight with my daily pictures from sunday-today.

image via ikea blog.

Day 15

another good thing about this challenge is that it allows me to practice on my post-processing. this picture is obviously post-processed. the colors are so vibrant that it makes me smile. the martini glasses do have that color to them, but they don't look as bright as such in the original picture. but i figure, hey, as long as i'm taking the picture and making it look how i want, it counts.

and in the honor of new years, i have a few resolutions:

1. finally start eating healthy. i work out, and i do ballroom dance, but then ruin it with cheese dip or something equally as delicious.

2. stop letting the little things get to me. rude/angry customers at work; being so busy at work that i don't have time to come home and kiss my husband; trying to change people's minds about things; trying to make things happen that never will; worrying if i can please everyone. i am done with all that.

3. i am done with thinking that i am fat. it consumes so much of my time and energy that i'm done with it. i just am. i'm going to start a jar and for everytime that i say i'm fat or ask bennett if i'm fat, in goes a quarter. i figure this should work, because, well it worked when i had to stop sucking my thumb.

4. i will run a 10k this year, in preparation for the mercedes half marathon in 2012. i can do this.

5. i will see my parents more than twice a year (each, because they are divorced).

that's what i've got for this year....of course, all easier said than done. we'll see how it goes.