New Years Resolutions – Just my two cents worth….
I read a post from Seth’s Blog today that kind of bothered me … It was entitled “Seven years gone” . It bothered me because it made really think about where have I been, all the stuff I’ve been through, and where do I want to be when the next decade rolls around. A funny side note on this which happened to do with the year 2000 turnover…..
I think I was asked this in freshman or maybe my sophomore year in high school, and I believe it was a theme paper of some sort (ugh!!!). Where will you be in the year 2000? The only thing that sticks out in my mind when I think on this was OMG… I’ll be old… I’ll be 34 that year and remembered the chills that went down my spine… god that’s old. Then when we rang in the new millenium/year/decade… I got cold chills down my spine thinking WOW! I made it to 34 and the year 2000, and I remembered thinking about this in high school. As far as the theme paper goes I’m sure I put down, being rich, successful….la de da…
So going along with Seth’s theme… but I will keep in the decade perspective sorry Seth, the math will make my head hurt – to many OPP issues today and can’t think straight.
In the last ten years I……
1. Bought my first house – which I’m still living in and boy was I the sucker who bought it alright 
2. Started college in 1999 and finished in 2004 – Check 
(2 Associates & 1 Bachelor’s degree)
3. Got a job in the computer field while in the second year of college – Check & Score (It was hard for us girls to get a networking job back then)
4. Child made it through junior high and graduated high school… hey he was even a January grad – Check
5. In the last part of the decade got the job with the Fortune 500 company and everything that I asked for and planned for when I started college. – SCORE… Big Time
6. Tried to keep up with the Jones’es and learned some bad credit habits and now I am paying the price for it
7. Gained about 60 pounds but I have a nice personality… lol!!
Looking ahead to the next 10 years….
1. Trading the house I live in now for my forever dream home.
2. Might go back to college and get my Master’s degree, either a MBA or a Master’s in Business Leadership. But will be doing this pay as I go – Sallie Mae has sucked the life out of my credit.
3. Got a few small businesses that I dabble in now, would like to expand on those. Want something my husband & I can do together from home in our spare time.
4. Of course become debt free
5. Lose a gazillion pounds and get down to 135-150 range that I was when I got married.
6. Start going to church again, been away too long… (kept the faith but just couldn’t make it to church)
Ok, I think I’ll keep it just those six things because they are huge undertakings. But, when I looked back at the last decade a lot of what I did was huge too… sometimes I just scare myself when I think back on everything. I have to take a deep breath and tell myself the one thing that my Mom told me when I was old enough to remember, “Girl… you’ve got to take care of yourself, you can’t count on other people to help you out. If you remember this you won’t get hurt.”
So now I have my blueprint for the next decade, we’ll see where I end up 
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