Woohoo 2010 is here and I have a plan.

I don’t know where 2010 is going to take me yet as far as where I’ll be living at the end of this year.  Kahuna is still not being decisive on whether or not he’s retiring or extending his enlistment to his 30 year EAS.  If he doesn’t extend he’ll be retired on October 17, 2010.  If he does extend he’ll be retired on January 12, 2012.

One thing I’m definitely doing this year is keeping my checkbook balanced.  I made this a ‘resolution’ a couple of years ago and stuck to it faithfully.  I was so impressed with how much money I had when I was keeping track of it.  I quit doing it when I took my current job.  I don’t know why, it just happened, and I am constantly transferring money from savings to checking and back again.  This is stopping today.  I have some financial goals I want to meet by the 10/10/10.  If Kahuna decides to retire this year, then that is hopefully the first day of my new job….Kept Woman.

As to my weight, well I do have some thoughts but can’t exactly get them down until I have my surgery date.  I’ll revisit that issue at that time.

I’m thinking really hard about making some stitching goals for 2010.    I’ve stitched more this week than I think I have all of 2009.  I’ve found myself not wanting to read and have grabbed a cup of coffee and my needle as fast as I could every morning.  So here are some thoughts to help me gel a plan:

One of the things I keep promising myself is to frame more of my finished work.  There’s really no excuse for this to not happen this year since Kahuna has said he’s more than happy to finance it.  I did pull The Token out earlier this week to trim it down and surge the edges.

I’m thinking I need to get back to rotating.  I’ve been thinking of a 4-5 item rotation: Large, Small, Old, New, or something similar. I love charts with salt box houses and American flags, so I may make these one of my categories. I also have a ton of ‘smalls’ charts/kits. Maybe AmFlag-House, Old, New, Smalls…ack! I don’t know, but I do need to clear up some ‘old’ projects.  I have many projects that only have a few stitches in them.  They’re from my craziness of starting tons of new projects during the month of January in years past.  I pull them out and look at them periodically and still like them and would like to get more stitching done on them.

I’ve posted on my facebook, but I’ll put here that both puppies have been sick. I think they have puppy stomach flu or something. I got Jasper well (after a trip to the Vet), and Harley was up all night long with it. It’s making for a very tired me and Kahuna.

Tomorrow is Stitchy Saturday and I’ll post a progress picture of Summer Queen after that.

Happy New Year all.