New year, new goals

I'm not really sure that I ever make "resolutions" but I do try to make a list of goals for myself for the coming year so I guess those could be called my resolutions. For example, I am more specific than "I want to save more money", stating certain dollar amounts in my budget and I think that helps me meet my goals.

But this year a few of my goals and resolutions are to:

• Make one new recipe per week to help us eat foods we don't usually eat
• Reach my target weight of 125 by March 1; 10 pounds, 2 months!
• Contribute certain percentages of my income to my money market account, our joint money market account (once we set it up), and my IRA
• Save a month's worth of rent at the grocery store over the course of the year (this year we saved $789.13, which is almost a month's rent!)
• Read a book per month for pleasure (first I will re-start reading The Fountainhead)
• Submit my review paper for publication by March 31
• Make specific time for Keegan and I to spend quality time together, like planning a small trip for our one year anniversary; we each get so wrapped up in our own deadlines and work that it's easy to fall in to ruts
  

I have other goals for myself but they're just little things, like submitting to certain conferences and goals for working in lab. I also want to keep my stress levels lower -- with school it's easy to get worked up over my papers and stuff but I really need to remember that it's not the end of the world when things don't go well. And we only live once so I really don't want to spend all of my time in the lab or stressing about how I should be in lab. Or stressing about things unrelated to lab and school at all. I need to be able to work hard when I'm at work and then not bring it all home with me. I think that may be easier this semester with only one class and being a TA so hopefully when I come home in the evenings I can cook dinner and enjoy spending time with my husband :-)