Happy New Year

So I decided to stay in tonight. I could have met up with friends, but I just am not in the mood to deal with crowds or stupid drivers or anything like that. And because I have to get up so early tomorrow - I need a quiet night. Plus, I still have a killer headache that I've had since Saturday. So I'm just hanging out at home, not even drinking anything. I'll go to bed right after midnight, just to close the door on this horrible year. I'm so hopeful that 2008 will be much better than 2007 was.

I'm just about done packing - just the last-minute things. So tomorrow I'll get up, do my measurements, finish packing, and head out the door.

Happy New Year!

2007 Goals - How Did I Do?

So these were my 2007 Personal Goals. How did I do??

Creative Memories
* Build customer database - kind of did this
* Strive to have 1 new event a month and 1 regular crop - had my monthly crop. Had a few new events, but not enough
* Send out monthly e-mail updates - for the most part I did this
* Send out quarterly newsletters - slacked off here
* Weekend Crop - March - did this
* Memoranzia - April - did this
* Croptoberfest - October - did this
* Open House – November/December - tried to do this, but it was a bust
* Recruit - didn't do this

Family/Friends
* Monthly e-mail updates to family - didn't do this at all
* Try to keep in better contact with friends - did this
* Write more letters to Grandma and Sarah - didn't do this
* Monthly get-togethers with local friends - for the most part, did this

Health - Lose weight and tone up
* Develop a work out routine – keep it varied - got better here
* Eat healthier, and more consistently – no more skipping meals - varied
* Monthly measurements - sometimes
* Start doing fun activities – biking, hiking, etc. - on occasion
* Train for triathlon - did not do

House Improvements - didn't really do any of this section
* Redo backyard
* Buy shed for backyard - got 1; need 1 more
* Replace front door
* Paint guest bathroom and bedroom
* Go through every room and declultter
* Clean out and organize storage area
* Replace carpet in living room/hall/steps/bedrooms/downstairs
* Replace cabinets in kitchen
* Buy new stove and dishwasher

Photo Albums
* Stay current with yearly album - current through Christmas
* Finish Disney album - just have to journal 2005 and 2006; started 2007
* Update Holiday album
* Finish College albums
* Work on state quarters album
* Football album – 2006 and 2007 - finished 2006; started 2007
* Organize rest of pictures - did 1/2 of this

Professional Development
* Recertify for CCP – need 5 credits by end of February - did

Travel
* Budget in trips to Tech for football - did this
* Budget in Trips to other locations for football games - did this
* Day trips throughout DC area
* Las Vegas in January - cancelled due to Dad
* Maine in June - cancelled due to Dad
* Minnesota in August - did this
* Girls’ scrapbooking weekend?? - didn't do this
* Disney trip - did this

Personal
* Date
* Pay down home equity loan - did this some
* Pay off credit cards - did this


So all in all, I didn't do too well. I'll have to revise these for 2008 and hopefully can do better next year.

It's Almost Over

Finally - the year from hell is almost over. Yippee!! I just want it to be done. I hope that 2008 will be better. In one way, it will. This is the first year in many that the football crew won't be together. And I'm glad. Every year there have been issues with everyone together and I'm sick of it. So we're not meeting up until the next day, and who knows who will be there. The marrieds and I will be together and the singles will be together. Who knows if we'll meet up. I don't even care if we don't see them. It'll be better that way - we don't need their negativity.

Now I just have to shake this mood. I'm not sure why I've been in a funk lately - I think it's just because I want this year to be over. I need a big change in things.

Christmas was good. It was nice being away from everything. I got to spend time with the people I wanted to see. And we got snow!! Grandma is doing better. Everyone looks good. And we relaxed. What I needed.

But now to decide about tomorrow night. Do I go out or stay in? I'm not even sure at this point. One of the girls from work is going to Ned's and I might go with her. But since I have to leave the house at 6 a.m., I'm inclined to stay home and celebrate later. So we'll see.

Blah Mood

I'm in a blah mood. Not totally sure why. It could be the holiday blues, or the weather, or who knows what. I know the holidays will be hard not having my dad here. I'm prepared for it, so I hope this isn't the start of that. I just want to get away from the blahs and find some happiness and joy again.

Update on things

Let's see, where do I start?

1. Talked to MB#3 today. He told me that at their company meeting on Friday, my old boss made a statement to the office praising the admin staff for having to work by themselves for most of the year without anyone managing them. WTF? MB#3 almost raised holy hell about that since I had been there for 7 months, working my tail off.

2. MB#3 - we talked for the first time in over a month. It was a nice talk; we might try and get together for a happy hour this month. But apparently the wife found out that he had been texting me a lot earlier. She was looking at the bill and saw the numerous texts that we had. He didn't want to say anything to me about it, but finally did. So as I told him, nothing can happen. And that's why. He felt bad, but finally understood.

3. The football crew. It looks like there will definitely be a split at some point. So many people are noticing Eric's childish moods and frankly, it's getting on everyone's nerves. He is acting like such a spoiled child. So most of us will probably start tailgating with AnotherDamnYankeeHokie and Chicken Boy. The other two will stay with Eric. And it's sad that he has to be that way. He's still holding his grudge against me - and I don't even care anymore. Kim is the same. Half of the time she was looking and acting annoyed at Eric, which was part of my conversation to Eric. But wow - let me say anything and it's like I committed the cardinal sin. I'll be glad when I'm not spending time with them anymore - it's too stressful.

4. So Repete wants me to come down to Tampa and spend New Year's with him, then fly down to Tampa on the 1st or 2nd. But it's too expensive for me to do that. I asked him to come to Miami and visit me there - it would be much cheaper for him to do that. We'll see what he says. It would be fun to see him again.

5. MB#1. He's trying to figure out if he can go to the Charlottesville show with me. Don't think anyone else will be going. He doesn't want Frenchy going to that show. And we're trying to figure out when we can get together again. He's got some CDs to get to me. I just wish we didn't have these feeling for each other.