new years resolution update

so i am not going to look at my new years resolutions to update this... it might make me realize how terribly i am doing. ok. i lie. i am going to look because what were those ten resolutions?

so.

1. i emptied a bottle of lotion last week and have been doing fairly well at regularly using it. also i went to bath and body works to exchange something and did not purchase anything while there. willpower will overcome! even though i rotate my shampoo i have been trying to really use that one bottle that is almost over.

2. the receipt sweepstakes is going well. i have not missed a sweepstakes oppurtunity yet, but i also have not yet won. we'll see soon because a lot of these sweepstakes run in three month cycles. i will win free groceries!

3. going on more dates. well... i think i have been on one other. not for lack of trying. i have tried CL and email interesting people and then the emails fizzle and we don't meet. i think three feet of snow had an impact on this. i do however have a date this thursday for coffee.

i also signed up for eharmony. i joined sometime in late november just to see what's what and waited for a deal. there was a free weekend sometime in january and i used that to communicate with some folks. but here are my thoughts. i have been matched with over 224 people in three months. that's not counting like a 100 or more men who 'closed' off communication (most often marking 'other' out of the like fifteen choices). how is it possible that i am so compatible with all these people and still single? i got a good deal this weekend and have been spending time weeding through those 224 accumulated matches and the ones that i had actually started communicating with. Now that I am official I can actually see their pictures and send them messages. Currently I have 183 closed matches, 162 new matches that I haven't even looked at, and 37 that may or may not be communicating. They may be like me who had a profile, but wasn't actually using the service. Somehow I think that is likely, but whatever... I'm trying something new. Plus it gives me something to giggle about. I swear I was matched with the same guy twice, that all boys revere their grandfathers, and that I am not the only odd duck out there. Sometimes I have found guys who have read the same weird books as me.

4. I have exercised very consistently on snow days and weekends. I even ran to Walgreen's on Saturday. Better than in the fall, but.... probably not really that great.

5. I am not doing well with the lip gloss. It's too big in my pocket and if it's not in my pocket well then I don't use it.

6. Haven't left Virginia, so North Dakota and Washington are still on the list, however Bonnie says we were in Washington when we were with Summit... so I may have been there.

7. There are lots of emptied boxes and a lot of things have been put into new homes. The man at the recycling center calls me honey every time i go recycle my cardboard. Now that I cleared all the boxes that were in the living room, I have lost some steam, but I am determined to get through the remaining ones.

8. I am drinking more wine. Maybe a glass every week. Maybe a little less.

9. I have watched more movies than normal (for me) and I think I still have a ways to go with this one. Right now, the Olympics are on and that is more entertaining.

10. All those snow days have helped me get ahead in school work. I have been doing very little in the evenings and leaving school at reasonable hours (except on coaching days). I am doing pretty well with the work for my online class too and getting a lot of the assignments done ahead of time (snow days have helped with this too). Probably I will lose some headway soon.

So, none of my resolutions are a complete fail except for maybe the lip gloss. I still have some work to do. Maybe I'll have some wine and read through some more profiles. ;)