1. Be more organized.
  2. Procrastinate less.
  3. Exercise more.

It’s a sad, sad day when not only has exercise made it onto the new year’s resolutions, but is also the most likely of the three to be accomplished.

There are many more things I could add to this list of things I want to do throughout the year. I want to write more (both blogging and fiction), to read more outside of classes, to knit more, to go out more, to have more fun.

However, that’s a crazy long list, most of them without anything more definite to go on. And most of those require me to be more organized and less procrastination minded, so it makes more sense to put the deeper reasons for my failings on the list.

These three are failings, too. For someone who keeps her room clean, her papers in order, and everything in their place, I am massively unorganized. Tests and papers sneak up on me — like last semester, when I didn’t realized until the Thursday before that we had a grammar test on Friday, and still managed to forget to take the test on Friday (it was an online test). I am constantly forgetting when things are due, when events are, and when I’ve promised to be places.

I do realize that exercise does usually tend to be the default resolution for many people, but I really need to stop putting it off. I’ve been complaining for the last few years how I feel horrible for being so out of shape (and am still huffing and puffing for short bike trips), but haven’t done anything to combat it. It’s time I finally stopped feeling like crap, and actually exercised.

It’s a good thing that I have the entire month of January off. That’s a month to become set in my new ways, so that when the semester starts up, it won’t be so easy to brush them off.

Hopefully I’ll remember to blog about how things are going occasionally. I know I’ll need advice on how to get this done, and so I’ll be counting on my friends to help pull me through.