Happy new year from sunny Florida! Just kidding. It’s raining here. That photo is from the other day. But happy new year anyway. 🙂
I spent the morning recovering from last night, investing some of my HSA money, taking a few Salesforce.com online training courses, and reading Dave Barry’s spectacular review of 2013. (Read it — it’s hilarious.) Then I idled away about 20 minutes discussing the pros and cons of electronic warfare with my brother in this resort’s lakeside hot tub. We had the entire pool area to ourselves, thanks to the balmy 52-degree air temperature and steady rate of chilly water droplets falling from the sky.  After that, we had Stephen’s fiancĂ© and her parents over for a delicious Italian dinner (complete with my own bowl of gluten-free pasta), and later, we finally managed to wrap up Christmas. Well, it mostly consisted of unwrapping, but you know what I mean. And that brings me to the present moment, in which I have finalized the next 12 months’ to-do list — my 2014 new year’s resolutions. Enjoy!
Work
PMP Certification
ITIL Certification
Salesforce Administrator Certification
Salesforce Advanced Administrator Certification
Force.com Developer Certification
Attend Dreamforce again
Successfully get data governance committee up and running
Develop a new strategy for keeping my email under control
Blog
Redesign the blog (again)
Post a series of gluten-free recipes (I’m hoping this will motivate me to cook more?)
Participate in Nicole‘s “Finish This” series
Write something hilarious
Plan a link-up for next year’s resolutions
Travel
Plan a girls trip
Visit Nicole in Texas
Visit Regina in Colorado
Visit Tara in Ohio (or meet her somewhere cool)
Visit my brother in Jacksonville and take a road trip down the coast of Florida to Key West
Eat pineapples in Hawaii
Play poker in Las Vegas
Taste wine at some vineyards
Take pictures of the Cape Hatteras lighthouse
New Things to Do
Shoot a gun (well)
Learn to play the guitar (at least one song)
Eat a clam (because I promised J’s sister I would try one of hers)
Acquire some kind of bar cart or wine rack (liquor bottles are taking over my counter)
Take a dance class
Start a good things jar (or maybe a virtual one)
Get that damn container of books out of the back of my car
The Usual
Keep up the horseback riding
Go surfing
Go ice skating
Do yoga
Host a party @ my house
Read at least 10 good books
Attend a few good concerts
See a few good plays
Publish something I’ve written somewhere other than my own blog
Financial Goals
Put more money in the 529 college savings plans I opened for my BFF’s kids
Increase monthly TD Ameritrade transfer to $325 in January and $350 in June
Start a new business (preferably with another person — I think it would be more fun that way)
Create a 2014 budget and track my progress against it monthly in Mint, Quicken or some other tool
Achieve the savings and net worth goals I wrote down in my budget
For My Well-Being
Get back in the habit of getting regular facials
Have a vegetarian week
Find a new cleaning service
Watch less TV
Get contacts or prescription sunglasses
Join a gym
Run in the R&R Half Marathon (I said I’d never do it again, but I changed my mind)
Log 3,650,000 steps on my Fitbit (that’s an average of 10,000 per day)
And, as usual, make one new resolution every month:
January: Get new running shoes
That’s about it. Did you make any resolutions this year? I’d love to hear about them in the comments!
