The Obligatory New Years Resolution Post

Like many people, year after year I come up with a New Years Resolution or two, and despite all of my good intentions in making them, end up losing motivation sometime during the year.  Well, this year, I feel that a change is necessary when it comes to aspects of my life.  2013 also marks the year I turn 30, and like Rachel Green on Friends, I am feeling dismayed by where I am at in my life for being a (nearly) 30 year old.

A scooter!

*Incidentally, I am completely depressed that I am almost at the age that the Friends characters were in season SEVEN, though I'm sure I will write a very self-depricating post about that come July.

Unlike Rachel, I can cross husband and kids off my list.  She and I seem to have opposite issues since, in her 30th birthday episode, she is working at a very good fashion job and seems to be doing well financially, though she is dating a 25 year old and doesn't see a future with him.  I am happily married to the man I've been with since we were both 16, and we have 2 sweet, energetic boys.  But we don't have very much financially, due to some job losses and me taking time off of graduate school to have Bennett.  So, with that in mind, here are my New Years Resolutions for 2013:

• Take better care of our finances so that we can move out of this apartment.  We will most likely be in our little 2 bedroom apartment for the next year at least, but I need to make and keep to a really tight budget so that we can get the heck out of here.  We need more space, and I am dying for a yard.  Even a tiny one.
• Get in shape.  I have always been fairly slender, I have a body that is, as Vince Vaughn once described his own, "deceptively flabby", meaning that I look very thin with clothes on my 5'9 frame, but I am in no way fit.  The best way to describe how I want to get in shape is that I want to tighten up.  

• Figure out what I want to do as a career.  I am in no way expecting myself to nail down a perfect option that will last me the rest of my life, but I am interested in way too many things right now and I at least need to figure out if any of them would lead to a workable income.  As much as I love staying home with the boys (and I really do) when they are both in school I'd like to work at least part time.  Unless someone wants to pay me to take classes.  I would be a paid student in a heartbeat.
• Start to let the little things go.  I am a worrier by nature, and I see how it affects my health, not to mention my husband's sanity.  Maybe I'll save money in supplements to keep myself calm if I just accept that some things are just going to be chaos.
• Purge all of the extra junk from our apartment.  One plastic grocery bag's worth of stuff each week will be either thrown away, donated, or gifted.  

I'll post an update over the summer to see how much progress I am making, hopefully at least one or two of them will show some improvement!

What are your resolutions?  Any repeats from previous years or are you starting fresh?