A List

I'm creating my new list of goals.  I think that I need to keep a list of goals to help keep me moving in the right direction.  I'm trying a much shorter term list though.

Start:  Feb 1, 2013

Finish:  Dec 31, 2013

Key:

Items In Not Started

Items In Progress

Items Completed

Items Abandoned

1. Complete the C25K program.
2. Get a gym membership.
3. Go to the gym 3 times a week for 6 weeks.
4. Drink 74 oz of fluid (without caffeine) per day for 6 weeks.
5. Limit caffeine to 200mg per day for 6 weeks.
6. Buy a new pair of glasses for myself that are cute with my new prescription.
7. Get a manicure/pedicure.
8. Go on 1 family overnight trip.
9. Go on 1 family vacation at least 2 nights long. 
10. Go on 5 family day trips, each to a different place.
11. Move into a house/apartment of our own.
12. Make home made ice cream.
13. Buy a domain for my blog.
14. Complete a NaBloPoMo.
15. Post 10 vlogs.
16. Do a "Day In The Life" post series (at least 4 posts).
17. Make 100 posts within the deadline of this challenge.
18. Keep a blog/photo record of everything completed or abandoned.
19. Reach 50 followers on GFC and then host a giveaway.
20. Create a Facebook page and have 50 likes.
21. Create a Twitter and have 25 followers.
22. Create 3 other social medias for the blog.
23. Participate in 3 blog hops.
24. Participate in an online book club.
25. Send a secret to PostSecrets.
26. Read 10 books I've never read before.
27. Watch 10 movies I've never seen before.
28. Visit 5 states, collecting an item from each one.
29. Get my eyebrows waxed for the first time.
30. Try sushi for the first time.
31. Write a letter to myself to be open (at a date to be determined).
32. Watch a sunrise and a sunset in the same day.
33. Watch a sunset and a sunrise in the same day.
34. Explore 5 different walking trails.
35. Write down at least 1 positive thing per day for 30 days.
36. Take a picture for each letter of the alphabet.
37. Learn to shoot a gun.
38. Comment on 50 random blogs.
39. Prepare 10 new meals my family likes.
40. Take a class for cooking, either online or in person.
41. Create a budget to stick to for 3 months.
42. Re-evalute the budget at 3 months and make any necessary adjustments.
43. Pay off 2 bad debts.
44. Put my feet in the ocean for the first time.
45. Donate my hair to Locks of Love.
46. Begin a hobby I enjoy.
47. Begin seeing a therapist to fix my own problems.
48. Find a dependable job to support my family.
49. Meet 3 online friends in person.
50. Put 5% of each pay check into a savings account. 

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The Beginning

As I sit here on the bed I've slept in for the last 9 months, I beginning to wonder how to begin this story.  I wonder if I should just mention who I am... or do I jump into the background.  I'm not completely sure where this post is going to end up.

I'm a bit of a talker.  But I'm extremely shy.  Talking face-to-face is really hard for me.  So, I love to write.  It truly is how I express myself.  It is how I manage to keep me from eating myself alive.  So, some times things end up much longer than they should be.  So, now that you have been warned, I am going to continue...

I'm Jessica.  I have been married twice.  I have been divorced twice.  I've dated a little bit.  I met a guy who I thought was great.  Shortly after, we moved in with him.  At the 10 month mark I had my world rocked (yet again).  Said guy who always devoted his desire to spend the rest of his life with me, told me he had changed his mind.  Which wouldn't have been easy to deal with anyways but...

I had quit my job a month or so before he told me this.  I did this in hopes of opening my own home day care.  I had support to do so.  However, I have placed this dream on hold yet again.  At least long enough to put my family's life back together.  So, I am definitely working hard to find me a job... somewhere.  Where I find my job... is where I plan on moving around.  This leads to the next problem I am facing...

I have to find a place to live and pretty quickly.  But I really want to be somewhere I am happy for a change.  I've been kind of unhappy everywhere that I have lived.  So, I need to find some place that I am going to be happy.  Some place where there are oppertunities for my three children from my first husband.  This is like... our fresh start and I want to do it RIGHT!

I invite you along for our journey.  It will be scary.  It will be exciting.  It will be new.  It won't always be pretty and it won't always be perfect.  But I am told it will be worth it!

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