I am going to Borders shortly to get that book, "Getting Past Your Breakup" or whatever it is called, the one that was written by the lady John210 posted from earlier on my thread.
Personal goals 2010:
1)Follow the Dave Ramsey "Total Money Makeover"--I will spend my money intentionally in 2010 and have a goal to be debt free except for my house and possibly a car payment (my car has 220K miles) by mid-year.
2)Strenghten my faith and trust in God--To that end I will continue to be active in my church and re-read "What to Do When You Don't Know What to Do"; written by the Christian authors of the "boundaries' books. A few months ago it was sitting out at my house and Dan borrowed it to read. It never came back so I will just get a new one...
3)Solidify my career path-- I need to evaluate the situation re. finishing up my ELL endorsement, attempting to get re-assigned at my school, and worse-case, work as a sub next year. I already decided I will not spend the lump sum from Dan unless/until I find out for sure I am gainfully employed next year. If I am NOT, the lump sum is coincidentally equal to one year's salary for me. So I will just sub in my local district for a year and figure it out from there if I have to, living off the child support, alimony, and sub money means I wouldn't even have to dip into the lump sum that much I don't think. But at least that way I don't have to try and find a job out of town, which I have no interest in doing...
4)Be more intentional in taking care of myself-- I will start writing up a weekly schedule for myself (having a set visitiation plan in place should help with that), making sure I schedule in 2 mornings and 2 evenings a week to get some form of exercise, be it working out at the Y, running at home, trying a fun class at the Y, etc etc.
OK I am sure none of you needed to read that but I wrote it out for myself. I didn't put anything about finding love in 2010 because I don't know that I will be ready for that. Lots of other ducks to get in a row first, taking care of BBJ.
Kerry I am still talking with CA every couple days via email. I am sure we will go out again sometime soon. It is nice but I don't know if it means anything yet. For one thing I know that anyone I wind up involved with will have to make me LAUGH and SMILE on a regular basis. If he can't do that, he will not be "Superfox Eligible"....
