Goals vs. Resolution

Each year I make new years resolution and they are always the same! Lose 25kg, stop biting my nails and try a little harder with the housework. By the 2nd Of January I'm eating chips, ice-cream and milo with a side of finger nails while watching the dirty washing take over my wet floored, powder and make-up covered bathroom! By the 3rd Of January I've given up!

Well this year I've taken a different approach to what I want to achieve and that approach was giving them a new name! They are no longer resolutions that get tossed to the side but goals that make me feel good about myself when I complete them! don't know why it works for me, maybe it has to do with the expectation of resolutions to fail, but they work and the only one that hasn't really kicked off properly is that pesky weight loss! That's what got me thinking about my goals again really. In my lazy, sleep hazed glory tonight, I thought having 2... not 1 but 2 bowls of ice-cream and milo was a wonderful idea! I'm now feeling physically ill and dirty with myself for not just ignoring my goal of weight loss but throwing it to the wind and flipping it the bird!

Well I need to be held accountable for my actions and because of that pesky thing called pride I need to let others know my goal so I can now prove to them that I can in fact do them and do them well! So here is my list of goal for myself and my family this year-

1. Weight loss-
   Surprise, surprise! This seems to be on most of our lists of wants and of course it's on the top of my list as well! But instead of my ridiculous lose that 25KG you gained since you were 18, it's a simple 6kg by the 1st of January 2012! That's only 0.5kg a month!!! But would believe it, I've gained 2kg instead!!! So now that it on here for everyone and anyone to see and I guess judge me on my accomplishments I may actually lose that 6kg (now 8kg) by my end date.
2. Read 40 books! I've so far read 5! I think I need to lift my game with that one!
3. Since I'm studying and things never started off well with my studies and I'm about 8 months before I need to finish 1.5 modules a month from April to January!
4. Save up to $2000!
5. Pay my mother back for all the help she gave me in the last few months with the floods, losing everything I own, moving and giving me a new car after min up and died on me just when I thought things couldn't get any worse! So I want to pay her at the very least $2000 this year on our low wages and hopefully more next year!
6. Become eco friendly!
7. Prepare Lucian for Pre-prep! This is pretty much done! It was a little easier then I thought! We still need to work on the order of numbers and get our ABC's but everything else is done!
8. Lastly it's that housework again! but this time I've found it easier! I don't know why it's easier now (perhaps it's from not having much left to call my own) but the house work hasn't gotten ahead of me once yet! That is something I am extremely proud off since I normally let it get to a point that Lucian will get lost amongst the washing before I do something about it!

That's all of them for now! More may be added or I may save them for next year!! Either way So far I'm pleased with my progress! Here's hoping that I'll now stick with that weight loss part and prove to the world that I can do ALL my goals not just the simple ones!

Who am I?

I know I only wrote in this earlier today but i didn't get out as much as I would have liked before my own little demon decided the cat was the perfect pillow and had me running off to save said cat.

I'll start off with a little about myself who I am, my family, friends, work and just well what makes me, me.

I'm currently 26 and well I'm kind of hating it! I don't feel 26 I fe

els 18 and I really hope I don't look 26!!! But I'm sure I'll have an age crisis blog in the next few weeks, so moving on...

I'm known as Chewy but My name is Rebecca. How did the designers of my nickname come to this? Well for starters I'm not hairy all over :) The thought process went something like this... I think... Chewbacca... Rebecca... Becca... Chewbecca... Chewy and it stuck!

I have a beautiful little boy Lucian who will be 4 on the 5th of October which will probably be here in 6 weeks not 6 months at the rate of this years speed anyway. He's my life and although I sometimes feel overwhelmed by him and guilty as hell for feeling like that I wouldn't trade him in for anything!

My partner and Lucian's dad is Joey. He's my rock and although we've had out ups and downs and he can close off to the extreme at times he's everything to me! We aren't married but have lived together for 5 years now and the only thing that's missing are the wedding photo's and the ring to say we are anything but married lol. He is an apprentice Chef. He came late to starting his trade as he decided

to try his hand at other things first, but in the end he went back to the kitchens where he started and is in his first year.

I'm a child care teacher and also came into my chosen career late. I'm currently studying my Cert III but hope to work my way up to becoming a teacher! I had always wanted to work with children but had to do a lot before I decided that yes child care was the job for me! I also had to do a bit more growing up as well I think! So 25 was the year I started and since I've had nothing but trouble since starting my studies from TAFE not giving me my first module till I was 6 months in to the traineeship to losing everything I own to floods and then moving house and have a minor breakdown about everything I'm finally getting back on track and may just get to finish my study by the time I'm 27!

I currently have no hobbies really. I love reading and cooking but I have moved to a small town that has nothing really to offer other then work! I'm looking into a couple things but nothing seems to be child friendly out here and truth be told I hate it! i want to do things and have fun but I feel trapped in a small town and I've only been here a little while! So most of my time is spent at work, with my little family, reading, watching movies and on the computer! I miss having options!

I had all these ideas before of what I wanted to put in this post and now I can't think of any of them! maybe I should get a note pad and jot down some notes and add all that to my next post.

Peace out

The beginning.

I've never blogged before and to be honest I never thought I'd start. I always wondered why would anyone want to blog, what's the point? I then read a couple blogs and I actually found them interesting which got me thinking about what I would say and do with a blog which got me a little excited. So I figured why not! After signing up I then came across the frustration of what to name my blog! I tried a few different things and all weren't available so I tried notomention.com... I didn't actually notice I was missing the second t till after it was approved and done lol. It still works I guess and I like it!

Although I would like to dive into the blogging world head on right now I am hearing a distressed cat and a quiet three year old so I can only assume that the three year old and the cat are not so happily playing and I will have to put aside my computer to save the cat and start dinner. So till I get my next quiet time to come sit in front of the computer with a steaming cup of tea I will leave it as this!