Picky and Healthy

As promised in my New Year’s resolutions post today is the fifth check-in day. I’m going to do a quick recap to see where I am, and where I can improve, on my NYRs.

(And here’s my first, second, third, and fourth check-ins, if you missed them.)

Let’s start out by remembering what I said at the end of last month’s post:

I think for May I have to focus on staying focused. I have my birthday, a trip to my parents’ house, lots of commitments on weekday evenings, my college roommate is coming to visit, I’ll be cat sitting, I have my half marathon, BEA, and another visit to my parents’ house.

Well, I take no joy in saying this, I was right. Between all my commitments and other insanity May was a really, really difficult month and that’s going to be reflected in this update.

GOAL # 1: RUN A HALF MARATHON. Preferably in the spring, but, if my body can’t do it, in the fall.

Progress: DONE! DONE! DONE! Completed on 4/3/10. And I registered for a second one, but couldn’t run it because of my sore knee.

Goal #2: Be more mindful of my diet.

Progress: I don’t know what I was mindful of here, but it certainly wasn’t my diet. I did terribly with this goal and the few extra pounds I’m seeing on the scale are reflective of this.

Goal #3: Find a substitute for cow’s milk that I like.

Progress: Done. I like almond milk. I use it in smoothies, I used it to make pancakes, I’ve used it in other baking things. Success.

Goal #4: Pay off $2400 of my credit card debt. (And don’t accrue any more!)

Progress: I paid off $200 in January, paid $200 in February, paid $200 for March, and just paid off $200 for April. I did not pay off $200 for May because of some poor budgeting for April. But, despite the fact that I started May off in the hole, I was able to spend wisely and I’m starting June off on the right foot.

Goal #5: Date.

Progress: Here’s what I said last month: My first try at this was a complete fail. I joined match.com (my membership expired at the end of April) and I never did anything. Huge waste of money and I let fear and insecurity take me over. The next two or three months are going to be crazy for me so I think I’m going to take time off from this goal and revisit it in August.

Well, because I didn’t read the terms of service closely enough it turns out that Match.com automatically renewed my subscription so that’s another almost $75 I’m out because they won’t refund it (or I assume they won’t as they say they won’t and they haven’t responded to my queries). I accept that it’s my fault for not reading the agreement closely enough, but I have to imagine it was well-hidden as that’s something I would have noted.

In addition, I never received ONE email from match.com. Not to confirm my membership, not to confirm payment, not to notify me of views to my profile, winks, or anything. As far as I can tell I have all the notifications properly set up to receive emails and I didn’t have anything in my spam folder. Overall I have to say I’m disappointed with match.com and I certainly won’t be going back when I revisit this goal in August.

Goal #6: Make more friends.

Progress: My kickball team started and I’ve met some nice people through that. I don’t see us being friends outside of kickball, but it’s a nice socialization to have. In addition I spent lots of time with my friends and had a visit from my college roommate.

Goal #7: Donate blood as often as possible

Progress: Donated in January and in early April when I was eligible again. The next time I can donate is June 5 which is perfect since it’s one of the only weekends I’ll be in NYC in June!

Goal #8: Volunteer.

Progress: Same as the last three months: No progress. I need to work on this.

And then there were the random things…

Thing #1: Sign up to be a bone marrow donor.

This is a major fail and I’m really ashamed of this. I got the kit in the mail, I never did it, and after a certain time you can’t send it back. I need to think long and hard about whether I want (if I’m even able to) request another kit.

Thing #2: Get a passport.

I have my birth certificate ready and my application printed out. I was planning on using my cat sitting money for the passport, but now I think I might want to put it towards a new camera lens. But I’m going to see how spending goes in June.

Thing #3: Go to the dermatologist

I got a referral, yet still have not made an appointment. At my yearly physical my doctor also gave me names. I need to do this.

Thing #4: Wash sheets more often.

Done.

Thing #5: Log all workouts on my the blog on a separate workout page.

I got majorly lazy with this this month, I’m starting again in June.

Thing #6: Read more.

I read Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella and I’m currently reading Admission. Overall I think I read a lot more in the summer when I’m doing more traveling and at the beach.

So May was a major fail. But that’s ok. I’m going to take my failures and turn them into lessons and hopefully they’ll help me have some success stories. Stay tuned for my plan for June which I’ll be posting tomorrow.