New Year Resolutions

Mason has been trying to make me create some New Year resolutions. I really never make resolutions and when I do I usually forget them after a month.

So for Mason I came up with two this year that I think I can manage.

The first one is one that I have year after year; it is to manage my time better. Especially now that I'm married I find that I have more to do then I have time to do. I have tried to cut out everything I could so that I could to just focus on what I need to do, but after this semester I have realized that that even isn't enough. So this semester I am striving to find balance in my life and to manage my time carefully, to plan like I haven't before, and to try to cut out excess time spent on any one thing.

My next one is a budget goal. Mason and I are savers so budgeting isn't too big a deal for us. However I would like to change one way that I handle money. Usually when my checking gets over a certain amount I move the rest into savings, so that way I keep a constant amount of money in my checking for each month and I can't go over that amount unless there is some planned expense like tuition or trips. So my plan is to change it so that with each paycheck I move a certain amount of money from that paycheck into my savings. This way I hope instead of it being sometimes saving, I almost always save each month (again except for planned events such as tuition or trips).

Mason has several New Year resolutions (a whole page full), but I'll only mention one. I suggested that this year that one of his resolutions to be to stop getting any more speeding tickets. In my next post about our Christmas I will explain it more fully, but lets just say that for the year of 2009 he has received several tickets and I think that the cops are out to get him for any little thing.