{"id":340,"date":"2009-01-01T22:06:31","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T03:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=340"},"modified":"2009-01-01T22:06:31","modified_gmt":"2009-01-02T03:06:31","slug":"welcoming-a-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2009\/20090101-340.htm","title":{"rendered":"Welcoming a New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a number of goals for this year&#8211;about a bazillion ;)&#8211;but no resolutions. At least, no resolutions along the lines of &#8220;I&#8217;m going to exercise every day this year&#8221;, &#8220;I&#8217;m going to read through the Bible&#8221;, &#8220;I&#8217;m going to achieve self-actualization.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Instead, I&#8217;m going to keep on with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flylady.net\" target=\"_blank\">Flylady<\/a>.  I&#8217;m going to work towards the healthy behaviors I <a href=\"log\/2008\/20081208.htm\" target=\"_blank\">listed<\/a> earlier.  I&#8217;m going to attempt to resume my piano practice.  I&#8217;m going to try to blog 5 times a week. I added <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ptsem.edu\/ConEd\/calvin\/\" target=\"bekahcubed\">A Year with the Institutes<\/a> to my RSS feed, so maybe while I&#8217;m <strike>wasting time<\/strike> exploring blogs this year, I&#8217;ll get Calvin&#8217;s <i>Institutes<\/i> read too.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m keeping things pretty low-key&#8211;nothing too set in stone.  Nothing too demanding.  Just taking the opportunity of a fresh year to do some of those things I&#8217;ve wanted to do for a while.<\/p>\n<p>I feel like I&#8217;ve made a pretty good start on the year. Today I:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>changed the sheets on my bed<\/li>\n<li>had a talk with my little sister<\/li>\n<li>watched the Gator Bowl with my family (Huskers won, duh!)<\/li>\n<li>finished my laundry<\/li>\n<li>completed the WIC modules I&#8217;ve been working on for a couple of days<\/li>\n<li>finished writing notes on a book<\/li>\n<li>finished reading <i>Getting things done<\/i> by David Allen<\/li>\n<li>read a chapter apiece of <i>Peter Pan<\/i> and <i>Pretty Good Jokes<\/i> (I&#8217;m working on learning some new jokes&#8211;and I actually remembered two well enough to share them at appropriate moments during commercials today!)<\/li>\n<li>listened to todays reading from the Calvin&#8217;s Institutes<\/li>\n<li>cut out a sewing pattern<\/li>\n<li>listened to (and took notes on) the first session of William Bell&#8217;s Old Testament Survey from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discipleshiplibrary.com\/dr_bell.php\" target=\"_blank\">Discipleship Library<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And now, having had a full and productive year (thus far), I&#8217;m going to get ready for bed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a number of goals for this year&#8211;about a bazillion ;)&#8211;but no resolutions. At least, no resolutions along the lines of &#8220;I&#8217;m going to exercise every day this year&#8221;, &#8220;I&#8217;m going to read through the Bible&#8221;, &#8220;I&#8217;m going to achieve self-actualization.&#8221; Instead, I&#8217;m going to keep on with Flylady. I&#8217;m going to work towards &#8230; <a title=\"Welcoming a New Year\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2009\/20090101-340.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Welcoming a New Year<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}