New Years Resolutions... Better late than never.

Somehow I feel like 2011 did not get off to the smoothest start for me. It could have been the bar fight I witnessed at 2am New Years morning that started my year out with bad karma, or it could just be that traveling 6000+ miles for the holidays is generally discombobulating and hard to get settled after (especially when you are an ocd control-freak like myself). Either way, I was feeling a bit disheartened that it took me the greater part of January to finally feel settled back into life in Dubai and that I had a grasp on my life.

So, back in December before the craziness of the holidays set in, I had been thinking about my New Years Resolutions for 2011, and just generally things I wanted to improve for the better or change about my life this year. I kind of forgot about them for the month (or at least put them on the waaay back burner), but now that I finally feel like I have regained some semblance of control of my life I think I will try to institute some positive changes for 2011. My reason for posting them on here is that I feel like if I actually write them down (and publicly for all the world to see), then it will keep me a little more honest with following through. So, without further ado, my new New Years Resolutions for 2011:

1) (Obviously) lose the 6 lbs I gained over the holidays.
2) Regularly do yoga.
3) Make more time to read.
4) Make an effort to cook more at home and continue to try new recipes once a week. This is something we were really good about last year, for the vast majority of the year, but since we've gotten back from Christmas with the craziness of work and daily stress of life we've been having more take-out than we'd like to admit.
5) Take the time to enjoy the little things in life and appreciate what we have, including taking advantage of the beautiful place that we live, because the plan is to not live here for all that much longer.

So there, I think that's probably enough to keep me busy, and now that it's down on paper (so to speak) I will at least have a place to keep tabs on my progress. I just got new running shoes yesterday and I am starting a yoga class every Sunday starting next week, so now onto the reading one... Let's see how this goes!