New "Me" Resolutions

Oct 24, 2011

As I wait for my surgery date on November 30, I'm trying not to freak out...focus, focus on the things I'll be able to do once I lose weight.  So, what better way than to make resolutions, right?  Why wait for the New Year?  So, here we go with the New "Me" Resolutions.   A work in progress, but I have to start somewhere.

1.  I will do at least one new thing each month.  Some things will have to wait til I'm completely physically recovered, of course: like sign up to play softball next spring, get my motorcycle license.  But I can get a membership to the local botanical garden any time, and I can read a new book every month as well.  Good way to start recovery, when it will be too cold to do much outside anyway.

2.  I will go to one new event each month.  Post-op support groups, professional meetings/get-togethers, any place where I can meet new people.  Real people, not just Facebook "friends". 

3.  I will celebrate without using food!  Big one.  Hopefully this will be easier to stick to once I've had 85% of my stomach removed, don't you think?

4.  I will focus on friends, not "acquaintances."  Yep, time to clean house.  I've had it with folks who think they are my "friends" simply because they give me a poke on Facebook now and again.  My definition of a friend is someone who I actually see live and in person!  Face to face!  We have lunch together, or coffee, or something more than a vague cyber-gesture!!  We actually have a CONVERSATION...that's my idea of a friend.  Sadly I don't seem to have many of those these days.  Got to work on that, and I will. 

5.  I will go on a date.  I won't wait for someone to ask me out.  If I meet someone I am interested in, and there is "chemistry" there, I will ask them for a date.  If they say no, their loss. 

OK, that's a start.  I have time to come up with more.  I'm taking a drastic step here in my life; I'm being given a second chance, to start over and be healthier and happier.  I intend to make the most of it.

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