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This year, I managed to come up with four resolutions for the new year. I didn’t manage to post them within the first week ~of~ that new year, but you know. Baby steps. My resolutions, in all their lazy glory, were to:

• Work out at least once a week,
• Either take or teach a class,
• Speak better Spanish than I did at the end of last year, and
• Blog more frequently.

And I realized this morning that, even though we’re not quite four weeks into the new year, I’m already making decent progress on my resolutions. Go me, eh? Here’s how they’re going so far:

Work out 1X Weekly

This one was probably the easiest of the bunch to manage, because I’m signed up for a weekly “boot-camp style” (their words, not mine) exercise class through work. Basically, every week I pay a nice woman named Sarah five bucks to hurt me for an hour. Which I consider a great bargain, considering businessmen around the world pay easily 20 times that amount, and all they get extra is a bit of leather and perhaps a whip. I’ve also managed to get to the gym at least one other time every week – usually Monday or Tuesday evenings. So I’m doing all right!

Take or Teach (Sink or Swim?)

As my exuberant post yesterday mentioned, I’ll be teaching a couple of web design classes starting in late March. I’m still really excited about this opportunity. And also a little nervous, now that I’ve had time to consider all the planning I need to get done for the class, on top of planning our upcoming Eurotrip (which I’ll be blogging more about in due time). And if this class goes well in the spring, there’s always the possibility of teaching it again in the fall. So yay there. :)

Speak More Gooder Espanol

Well, I certainly don’t speak worse Spanish, at any rate. This one is going to be a slower work-in-progress. I’m hoping that immersion will help me along a little bit – Amanda and I will be hanging out with Hannah and Tono on Sunday afternoon, and whenever the four of us are together, around 1/3 to 1/2 of the conversation is in Spanish. Personally, I’d prefer if the ratio were higher – I need to work on picking up new words. Of course, I worry my ears aren’t helping me out on this one. My hearing is getting worse these days, and sometimes I struggle to understand English.

Blog More

Luckily, it’d actually be difficult to blog ~less~ than I did towards the end of last year. And I’d say I’ve made good progress so far. This is my eighth post this month already, in less than four weeks. That’s pretty darn good for me. And I’ve also come up with a way to help encourage myself to blog with greater frequency. But I’ll talk about that in another post. :)