Monday, December 21, 2009

Organizing

We finally ordered our media cabinet last week! I'm so excited to be able to (finally) unpack all of the boxes cluttering up our office :-D And then, a year and a half after the fact, we will be fully moved in to our place. Keegan has also decided to buy himself a desk so that he'll be able to unpack all of his computer stuff and then he'll have a place to work at home too.

Speaking of the office, that's one of the other major things I will be tackling later this week -- cleaning/clearing it. It's become the dumping ground for all the stuff we don't know where to put elsewhere. I also desperately need to go through all of the mail I get; Vanguard sends me shameful numbers of statements (so many dead trees!) that I really need to get into a binder or something so I can find all these month-end summaries if I ever need to reference them for some reason. I've switched to paperless for my checking accounts though, so that's eliminated some of the mess. I also still need to change my name with Vanguard, which is proving challenging. After that though I'll only need to change the name on my car/health insurance, my passport, and my car title. There are so many things I forget about when I'm changing my name and school has kept me so busy it's really challenging to get to all these places during their normal hours of operation to get my questions answered.

I've started a list of my goals for 2010, which I also did for 2009 and I think it helps me feel a sense of accomplishment when I get to the end of the year and about 3/4 of the things are checked off. In one of my investment books the author recommends making a list of things that are important to you (as far as what you're saving for) to help motivate you to reach your goals. I have done that for finances but also just with other goals too.

I had the goal to weigh 125 by Christmas, which was an optimistic, yet unrealistic goal to set for myself. Exams get in the way of exercise time... My new goal is to maintain my current weight (133) through the end of the year and then work my way down to 125 by about March I'd say. Keegan and I are planning to go to Hilton Head with his family for Easter, and it would be nice to be able to wear the bikinis I bought for our honeymoon again :-) It would also be nice to be able to wear my sundresses again! I bought a new dress to wear to The Nutcracker on Wednesday, a more formal winter dress that I can wear to nice events we go to during colder months. Here's a link to one that looks similar to mine, but mine is really bright red and the neckline is a little different. I'll post pictures after Wednesday!

In the spirit of organizing I have finished wrapping all of our Christmas gifts! I know Keegan still needs to wrap the ones for me, but we're almost ready for Christmas. His family came over last night for coffee/hot chocolate and cookies and we had a nice time hanging out with them. I think my mom and siblings will come over later this week to see the place also (I hope so!) I'm going to go buy Keegan "It's a Wonderful Life" tonight as a "we've been married for 6 months!" gift but I'll give that to him early so we can watch it on Christmas Eve. Yesterday I watched Christmas Vacation with my siblings, and Keegan and I will find time for the Charlie Brown Christmas, the Grinch, and Rudolph before the big day. I just can't believe Friday is Christmas! It's almost a little sad -- once it's over I have to wait a whole year for the excitement of Christmas again! (Of course really I only have to wait until August when the first Christmas decorations go up in Target) But I think January and February are depressing months honestly; it's cold without the excitement of Christmas in the air and everything is just bleak with no leaves on the trees, few flowers out, etc. Can you tell I'm not a fan of winter? I do, however, love snow :-) Edit: when the power remains on, I love snow.

Man, this is a long, rambling, and most likely boring post.

Exciting things:
  • We're going to see Eric Clapton with guest Roger Daltrey on March 8, 2010!!!! AHHH!
  • My friends Emily and Kyle recently got engaged! Yay, happiness! :-D
  • I'm going to Boone to go snowboarding/tubing/winter things with Keegan's mom and one of his sisters while Keegan, his dad, and the rest of his siblings are skiing in Colorado
  • I had killer grades this semester
  • I finished another draft of my paper!
  • I'm going to see a few of my high school friends tomorrow for coffee(/lunch?) -- I love catching up
  • I got to see one of my other high school friends get married on Saturday!
  • Keegan's big project at work was approved for the next phase, so he's guaranteed a job through May (and hopefully longer)
  • We have been married 6 months (and one day)
  • We're going to see The Nutcracker, my first ballet!
  • I'm officially a TA next semester, though not for Monty's class; I'm TAing EGR 75L, intro to statics being taught by (I've heard) one of the best professors at Duke
Well, I think that's enough for now :-)

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