Purse Overhaul

I follow some random blogs on Google Reader; blogs found through occasional searches or linked on other blogs. One of them, Love at First Shop, did a post this week about what she keeps in her purse. It has inspired me to clean out my purse.

I really need to upgrade the crap I'm carrying around - last year's calendar, a broken compact, goopy Clinique lip gloss that came as a free gift, and about 8 million receipts. Hopefully once I get it cleaned out and up-graded I can create a blog post about my lovely purse contents like her, with picture. So here is my inspiration: Rosa's bag contents post.

A Review of Goals

I started this blog over a year ago and here were the goals I set down, in a condensed version:

1. Find a job that I love.
2. Get involved in the local arts community.
3. Join a group.
4. Exercise once a week.
5. Create a plan for decorating my house and execute it.
6. Clean up my social life.
7. Foster the friends I have.
8. Keep reading.
9. Stay positive.
10. Blog regularly.

So how did I do?

1. I did, indeed, find a job that I'm totally in love with. Seriously - I'm a party planner, I work independently, I have lots of fun, and I can be social and frenetic without anyone having a problem with it.
2. I failed at getting involved with the arts. My new job involves lots of evenings and weekends, so at this point it would be almost irresponsible to get involved in something that I couldn't commit to.
3. Well, I didn't join a group, but my job has made me a part of a lot of groups. I'm in a group with other people who do my job, I sit as a non-voting member of a local industry group's board, and I work with committees on a daily basis.
4. Ha! FAIL. I'm terrible at exercising. I should set up my home computer to only operate if I've worked out, and then it'd actually happen.
5. To some extent, I have a plan for decorating my house. I just haven't executed it.
6. This has definitely happened. I've managed to let some friendships go into dormancy in order to free myself from the drama they fostered.
7. Fostering friends has been a win, mostly, as well. I now I have friends I truly love that I know will be there for me when I need them.
8. I joined a book club, and while it's kept me reading I still have a stack of unfinished books on my bedside table. I blame it on the Food Network.
9. Nope, not at all. I'm still not positive. I just don't think some people are wired to be happy all the time, and I'm one of them.
10. I feel like I got the blogging regularity mostly right. I'm still here!