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It has not been a banner month for following up on New Year’s resolutions, but it hasn’t been terribly bad either.

One of my goals was to combat procrastination.  I thought picking one neglected task per week would be a good goal.  Rather than dwelling on how long I’ve been thinking about doing something but not actually *doing* anything about it, I’d just go ahead and get it done, and be inwardly proud that it’s no longer a source of guilt.  The idea is to lose weight off my mind as the year progresses.

Here is this week’s example: I have an ice cream maker.  After working at Toscanini’s in college, not to mention many gallons of ice cream made in our garage growing up, I have a certain reputation for both making and eating ice cream.  Unfortunately, Brian has never eaten ice cream I’ve made.  Shortly after we moved to Newburyport, I broke the blade on the ice cream maker.  Since the rest of the contraption is in fine shape, I’ve kept it.  Today, I finally ordered the replacement part.  Now I can look forward to the day the part will arrive and we can enjoy making and eating ice cream (and frozen yogurt made with Brian’s homemade yogurt!) again, instead of kicking myself whenever I see the poor ice cream maker in the cupboard and thinking “I really should order a new blade.”

Other anti-procrastination activities have included putting photos in the cool 3D picture frames Leslie got us for Christmas more than a year ago, updating my resume (you know, the thing those career experts tell you do to every year, just in case, but I haven’t done in a really long time?) and getting on Facebook.

Another goal was to have more people over for dinner and to see friends more often in general.  We really enjoy entertaining and cooking, but months can easily go by without hosting a dinner party.  The SanClementes came over to sled and have dinner last weekend, and the church music committee had dinner and met here last night.  In addition I got to see Ab and Dave + prodigies, we went to Foley’s birthday shindig, and I’ll be going to Autumn’s housewarming this weekend.  We enjoyed watching football in Quincy last weekend, having a great time with Amory, Mike, Austin, Chuck, Tracy, Nate and Dan, and finally seeing Mike’s “new” (ok, it’s been ~3 years, I just hadn’t been there to see it) 3rd floor renovated digs this month.  It’s good to catch up with friends and not let it be quite so long between visits.  We’re working on our February plans now, with the hope of some out-of-town guests being added to the schedule.

As for exercise, that could use some work.  I’ve gone snowshoeing each weekend except last week, and that was due to feeliing lousy with what has turned into a sinus infection. (I have antibiotics.)  I do love playing in the snow, and snowshoeing is the best outdoor cardio I can do when there is so much snow on the sidewalks.  I have tried out the new yoga video and mat, I’ve been on the bike a couple times, and we’ve done a few Martina workouts, but it hasn’t become quite as regular of a habit as I’d like – it is still a struggle to get in more than one workout per week.  I guess not all resolutions take off in January, and luckily each day is another opportunity to do better.