2008!?!?!?

What is in store for 2008??? I really wish sometimes I had a crystal ball to see into the future. I am very much a planner. I need to know how things will happen, what to expect, the worse or best case scenario.

In the week that it has been since I last posted I havent worked on any of my goals for 2008. Other than photos(thanks Erin!)
But I am gearing up to start Monday, a day early. My fresh slate starts Tuesday. I am excited for a new year, new goals & revisit old goals.

I am considering trying a new photo project. I need to decide soon to commit to it. There is a photo project that alot of the photographers I chat with participate in. 365 photos(this year will be 366, Yeah for leap year!). Some do a self photo for 365 days, yes ladies & gents that is a pic everyday! I dont know that I have that much time in my life or that I want to see a daily self portrait done. I cant be cute every single day for a year. I guess its more about posting the real you but I am not that brave.
I am considering participating in my own way... I am thinking about 52 weeks... Instead of a daily a weekly. Tuesday... every tuesday after Weight Watchers I want to take a picture & include if there was a loss or gain.... (notice I elected not to post the actual number!!) I had someone suggest that in my photo business I offer before & after photo sessions for people who on this weight loss journey. What a better way than to start with myself?

I havent fully commited to it but I am considering it.
So with that said I am outta here, I have a few cards I need/want to make.
:)

Christmas Eve

Christmas is finally almost here. For a month I have been thinking wow Christmas is almost here. Then New Years! I enjoy New Years as much as Christmas, but for a totally different reason. I enjoy a fresh slate. A chance to start over in a sense. Dust your self off & try again...I dont do the whole resolution crap because lets face it by Jan 5th who remembers they made a resolution. I set goals. The same goal usually but still a goal.
Last year I scrapbooked a page that had my goals on it thinking maybe- just maybe- it would commit me to keeping on track... WRONG!I found that page when cleaning my stamp closet yesterday... it says
Deceber 28 2006... my goals for a new year & a new me are to
1. loose 32 pounds by my 32nd bday July 21 2007... Did I keep this goal.. NOPE! I may have lost a pound here & there, maybe even 32 times... but not all at one time & keep it all off! Certainly not by my bday.
2. decide what we are going to do with the fertility treatments, continue or adopt... well that was decided for me by Dr S (see previous blog entry)- so I dont feel like I achieved that either...
3. learn photoshop.... lets just say I tried but failed miserably! I hate photoshop, there is so much to learn. I need a class for dummies.
4. Learn how to take better photos... Wait there is a goal I accomplished! I did actually achieve something in the past 12 months! Not to mention I did Awesome... for a rookie! :) I actually made some cash at this!
http://www.puhakphotography.com/

So now that the new year is coming & there are big changes I need to make , things I need to do, things I want to do, I will set my goals for 2008.

I have been doing WeightWatchers again for 3 weeks, I have lost 9.8 pounds.
I have changed a few habits, I have even dusted off the beast of a tredmill we have & USED IT!
So goal #1
1. Continue to walk on the tredmill at least 3 days a week.
2. Continue to work at WW, to find a better me. I am not setting a # on how much to loose but it needs to be big. 60+ pounds it what I am going for. I have done 50 before so why not push for more?!!?
3. Continue to learn about photos & the business.
4. work on my addiction to shopping... work on paying off my credit card & not using it!
5. Try to remember to blog more than once a month! :) Yeah I doubt this will happen!

B is for BUSY!

I always have the same excuse... I am busy. Well I have been!

I have done family Christmas pictures, maternity pictures, edited pictures, order pictures, invoice pictures, delivered pictures, I dream about pictures.... it all seems to be falling in to place. A friend from church lets call her L she refered a friend to me for maternity pictures. They then referred me to friends who just had a baby last week. I have an appointment in pencil with 2 neighbors one of which had her baby today(or late last night??) the other had her baby in Oct but we are just getting around to pictures!

Now I just need to find time to finish my class. Which I am miserably behind in. I pretty much quit but saved all the lessons on my computer so I can go back & read them when I have a free minute to do so! Why did I plan on taking a class in November/December when there are so many things going on this time of the year?? Duh.

Well I would like to invite anyone who reads this blog to check out my husbands latest project. He is having as much fun with this as I am with the pictures. We are becoming great business partners!

http://www.puhakphotography.com/

Well... I am off for now. We are having our Elegant 8 Holiday party next week here at our place so there is cleaning to be done!