On Progress

I posted last week about my lengthy list of goals for 2012. The good news is, I am feeling just as motivated as I was on January 1, and I've actually begun to make some progress on a few things.

1. I've been attempting to watch what I eat (a little--but its really hard when I'm in such a delicious place like Southern Louisiana), but I have definitely been doing better with my exercising. I got 2 new Just Dance games for Wii for Christmas (JD3 and Summer Party), and I have been using those for at least 30 minutes about every other day. Also, John and I climbed Stone Mountain for the first time in 2012 on Saturday. I think I did it faster and with less stops than ever before! Now, I must decide whether or not to join a gym right around the corner from my house ($16/month, and that's including the "annual fee"...hard to say no, right?).

2. Got a new hair tool at Target and I think its going to be really great! Its one of those straighteners with the curved plates on the outside so that you can easily (very easily!) make curls and waves. I've only used it once to play around, but it made curls very easily and quickly, and it also gave my hair a good amount of volume with "waves", which I certainly do not have naturally! You can get one just like mine here. I hope my hair is looking more like my girl Kate's in no time.

3. Still just as motivated to save more/spend less. No shop January is going strong, and I've even decided to start tracking the money I can save when I travel for work (not using up my daily allowance of money for meals, etc.). In an extra effort to stop the shopping insanity that was 2011, I went back through my credit card statements for the whole year and added up all clothing, department store, home-good-item purchases (plus my iPad, bridesmaid dress, etc). This was not pretty, but I highly recommend doing this if you want to be more self-aware about your spending. It was eye-opening.

4. I haven't cooked much, but I have cooked some. I want to try new (and healthy recipes soon)!

5. There's a BYOB knitting class on living social for Atlanta today. I did say I wanted to take a class... :)

6. I think I'm making progress on being a better blogger. Still need to work on taking more photos, but I am so happy to be sharing my ideas and happenings of the new year with all of you!

Anyone else have any progress they'd like to report? I am so happy that I'm keeping up my motivation and energy to try and make 2012 great. I hope y'all are too!