Resolutions update

Considering my birthday was just last week, I thought it an appropriate time to give an update on my resolutions. Full disclaimer: I know I'm not doing perfectly with many of them, but I still keep them in mind, and since I had them posted on here they're not hard to look back at.

1. Exercise a little every day, even if it means taking a walk for 30 minutes on a treadmill. I had started a program with my family called FitBit earlier in the year that keeps track of how well you do in physical activity throughout the day/week, but the model of the little tracker I use was recalled some time ago, so I'm not entirely sure what the update is with that… Having a job at Subway, though, I'm on my feet pretty much the whole time and moving around a lot, so that's definitely helping.

(Disclaimer: not actually me on a treadmill)

2. Unless I'm specifically out with friends, stop eating so much late at night. Getting better at this. Again, the job at Subway kinda helps… everything there is pretty filling, so I feel like I don't need to eat so much later in the day.

I'm sure everyone gets cravings… right?

3. Read at least one new book a month. Not doing as well as I hoped. I have new books and made it about halfway through one, but still need to finish it and the others.

4. Start up a media production of some kind. I have the beginning started of Bargain Bin Reviews! I've been busy with work and Divine Comedy up until now, and since the semester is pretty much over I should be able to use free time to devote it to the beginning of the new blog. So I'll at least manage that and this one, with the Bargain Bin blog eventually being made into video reviews.

5. Do my best to enter into a relationship that is leading towards marriage. Dating around at the moment. Nothing serious going on for now. Though I will be starting a job as an EFY counselor at the end of next month, and the theme for this year is "Anxiously Engaged"… so that might be a sign for something.

6. Write at least one blog post per week. …yeah, definitely need to pick that up. My "excuse" that I tell myself is that I don't have anything interesting to write about. I deserve to be slapped for that kind of thought; it doesn't matter if it's completely interesting or not, the point is that I write something.

7. Watch the movies in my library that I haven't seen yet. Getting through some more of them. However, as my collection grows, the number of movies I have but haven't seen also grows… At the time of writing, I have yet to see 60 of my 287 movies. So if I watch 2 new movies a week every week for the rest of the year… I should be pretty close to caught up. Obviously I can do more than just 2 a week, but at the same time I'll have work and a variety of other movies to watch this summer…

8. Go to a convention of some sort. My original hope was to go to RTX, a convention hosted by Rooster Teeth that will happen a little after the 4th of July. However, for financial reasons, I'm not entirely sure that I'll be able to go. That, and the fact that I'll be an EFY counselor (which I haven't talked in depth about yet on this blog and will likely do so in the near future) will mean that most of my summer plans are already made for me.

9. Be more outgoing. Definitely improving, but slowly. I now have a calling in the ward I'm in as the executive secretary, which means that I'm, as my bishop puts it, "the most popular guy in the ward." (Mostly because I'm the guy that people go through in order to set up appointments and such.)

10. Be happy with myself. Getting better with this as well. It's not something that's easily achieved, I feel, so the fact that I'm not 100% there yet doesn't completely bother me. I know that I need to keep working toward it, though, because if I ever stop trying to be happy with who I am and what I'm doing with my life then I'll end up hating myself more and more.

I would just like to point out that that is a lawnmower.

New movies: got a lot this time around. I decided to try a different pawn shop than I usually go to and found Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny (funny story about that one), Clash of the Titans, The Matrix, Good Night, and Good Luck, A Beautiful Mind, The Wedding Singer, The Shawshank Redemption, The Longest Yard, Balls of Fury, Braveheart, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. I got Three Amigos as well, but the copy was pretty scratched up and didn't even start playing when I put it in my player.

From FYE: Tron: Legacy, Space Jam, War of the Worlds (which I didn't realize that I had a copy of already), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Dark Knight Rises. I went back the next day and traded War of the Worlds for Weekend at Bernie's.

Wal-Mart: Pineapple Express, Green Lantern, Home Alone, The Terminal, Inglorious Basterds, and Wild Wild West.