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Friend:  So, what are your New Years resolutions this year?

Me: I was actually going to blog about that today, but then I didn’t want to get out my iPad at work and type it all in, so I thought a post about my awesome paper wig would be sufficient.

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There’s nothing like a good friend to hold you accountable.

I did make a list of attainable aspirations this year. I figure there’s no sense in listing an endless litany of lofty goals that I will only feel disappointed about when they don’t happen, so I stuck to the realistic this year – stuff we can, and want, to make happen. Then I took a look at that list and realized I could divide all my goals into 5 action-driven keys words. And the system made sense to me, and I felt excited about my goals, not overwhelmed.

So my words for 2012 are…play, save, give, strive, and fit.

And here’s a quick run-down of what I’m geared up to accomplish in 2012:

• Secure a good full-time professional theatre job, or even two part-time theatre jobs (just not four, please, not four). So far I’ve been able to do this every year since I graduated college…I’ve been so lucky! I’m hoping this luck holds out for me!
• Design and launch my professional portfolio and website for acting and theatre education
• Act in at least one play and one musical this year. I seriously need to get back into this!
• Finish up getting the last of my EMC points and finally go union by joining the Actor’s Equity Association (woo!!)
• Get back into dancing by taking tap, ballet, and rhythm & motion classes
• Design a Blurb photo book for our time living in Cincy
• Revamp the ol’ blog
• Journal five things every day that I am thankful for
• Donate or volunteer at least six times this year – more if I can possibly make it happen!
• Engage my social side a little more often than…well, never…by making a point to go out with my friends at least once a month (I’m surprisingly bad at this)
• Take some trips this year: one to see my family, one to see Ted’s family, and two trips just for us – one will be a weekend in Door County for our wedding anniversary, and the other will, hopefully, be to somewhere a little more exotic!
• Get our affairs in order. This includes our wills, powers of attorney, medical release forms, retirement accounts, insurances and all that grown-up mumbo-jumbo that we really should have figured out by now.
• Add appropriate amounts to our retirement savings account, 6-month emergency living expenses saving account, and trip savings account. I suppose starting the last two accounts would be a good first step.
• Get back into exercising when it gets a bit warmer out (we don’t have bikes and roller blades for nothing!) and maintain my weight (basically, I just need to stay the hell out of The Bonbonerie bakery and I’ll be good to go).