30 Day Photography Challenge - Day 14

Eyes

I personally think my husbands eyes are amazing. This doesn't really do them justice, but it was the best I was able to get.

30 Day Photography Challenge - Day 13

Yourself With 13 Things

As I was at my mom's house I thought it would be fun to grab 13 things from my childhood bedroom. Everything has a special memory to go with it. In the picture is my first flute, the cross I have had on my wall for a long time, a fairy, the doll I bought in Switzerland, the corsage I got from my date to Winter Ball in high school, the flowers from my step-sisters wedding, the radio that goes with my american girl doll, the picture from the winter ball I went to with a friend from another high school, my high school punk motto (abolish the urban punk), my necklace shelf, my letter, my carebear, and the hat I made when I was a brownie.

30 Day Photography Challenge - Day 12

Sunset

It took me a long time to get this picture and it is not even a sunset. It is actually a sunrise. Every time there was a really cool sunset I was on the bus to Boulder. Even though it isn't actually a sunset I think it is a pretty good representation of one here in Lyons.

Small Goals For Big Goals - February

A picture I took near my new home in the town that gave me so much inspiration to do big things with my life (Lyons, CO).

I have always been a goal setter and a goal failure. This year I am really determined to succeed. I am going to break down my big goals into smaller goals. Hopefully this will help me to not fail.


Life
- Get down to 151lbs
- Write a minimum of 4 non-photo blog posts
- Read Proverbs
- Read 30 chapters from Psalms

Professional
- Get my photo blog up and running
- Do research on portfolio's
- Write up a generic cover letter
- Make a list of companies to apply to

Fitness
- Get my run's up to an hour
- Go on a 10 mile bike ride
- Go on 4 hikes and make sure one of them is with Jason

30 By 30
- Buy my camera and necessary accessories
- Sell my car
- Read Pride and Prejudice
- Continue to challenge myself to be better skier
- Determine what company I want to volunteer for
- Find a race that I want to volunteer for and apply

How are you going to accomplish your goals for 2012?

2012 Goals and Resolutions

I have set my goals and resolutions for 2012. I made a google doc to help me keep track of where I am and what I need to do next to accomplish them. My hope is to write a post at the beginning of each month with a few small steps to do in order to accomplish each of these larger goals.


Personal
- Get down to 125 lbs
- Write at least one non-phot blog post a week
- Finish my reading plan for the bible
- Learn to listen to my gut

Professional
- Get a website and blog up and running
- Put together a portfolio
- Get a big girl job

Fitness
- Run a 5k in under 35 minutes
- Go on a 50 mile bike ride
- Hike at least once a week and once a month with Jason

30 By 30
6. Get my dream camera
15. Read 4 classic books
      - pride and prejudice
      - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
      - Jane Eyre
      - Anne of Green Gables
18. Make my own hard cider
20. Become and amazing telli skier
25. Volunteer 100 hours for a cause that is in line with my beliefs
26. Climb 6 14ners
      - Longs peak
      - Mt. Evans
      - Mt. Bierstadt
      - Greys
      - Torries
      - Mt. Elbert
27. Get over my fear of falling
28. Volunteer for a race

Patterns

I went on a bike ride around town today in search of patterns to take pictures of. Below are my results. 

Same as the first one except I used a wide open aperture. 

Weight Loss Plan Revisited

The plan I wrote up in October:

1. I will run/bike 3 Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Whether I run or bike will be determined by how my knee is feeling. If I run I will go out for 30 minutes. If I bike I will go out for at least an hour. This is something I failed on miserably. Hopefully soon I will get the motivation to get out and bike and run.

2. I will do some form of strength training on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday/Sunday. For the first 6 weeks I am going to be doing the 100 Push up Challenge. After I finish that I will start lifting weights.The 100 Push Up Challenge is still a work in progress. I have been doing 20 minute videos 5 days a week and have noticed that while my weight isn't going down very fast I am getting much stronger.I didn't start doing these videos until December so technically they don't count towards my first plan, but I figure better late than never.

3. I will limit my sugar intake (minus whole fresh fruit) to once a week. I have a really bad sweet tooth that I need to curb. If I am in a social setting where it would look rude if I didn't have dessert then I will allow myself to have it even if I have already used my weekly allowance of sugar. I did ok with this one. While I haven't been able to keep it down to once a week, never realized how much sugar is in food, I have been doing a pretty good job with minimizing my sugar intake.

4. I will limit my carb intake to whole grain/ whole wheat products. I will continue to eat sour dough in place of most of my bread intake. This one proved to be pretty easy as I don't really like any bread that isn't whole wheat. 

5. I will only eat when I am hungry and take a picture of everything I eat. I will put all of my pictures in OneNote.  I have been pretty good at only eating when I am hungry, but not so much at taking pictures. I have been using MyFitnessPal in place of taking pictures.

6. I will take measurements once a month. The body measurements will serve as another way to gauge my
success.  I take measurements pretty sporadically. I have found it a little difficult to figure out exactly where to measure for each part.


7. Always eat at the table. If I'm not hungry enough to eat the table, I'm not hungry enough to eat. I have been getting better at this with meals, but not so much with snacks. I have found it really nice to eat lunch at the table.


8. I will reassess these goals at the end of November and change and adjust as needed.

It is now January, a new year, and I forgot to look back at these at the end on November. A lot of things happened that caused this, but the main one is that we moved out of my moms house. I figure that even if I am a month late I should still see how well I did and make changes.

My newish plan:


1. I will do at least 20 minutes of exercise 5 days a week.

3. I will limit my sugar intake and try to completely stop drinking soda.

4. I will limit my carb intake to whole grain/ whole wheat products. I will get my sour dough starter made so that I can make a whole wheat sour dough.

5. I will only eat when I am hungry and record everything I eat in MyFitnessPal

6. I will take measurements once a month. The body measurements will serve as another way to gauge my
success.  

7. Always eat at the table. If I'm not hungry enough to eat the table, I'm not hungry enough to eat.


8. I will reassess these goals at the end of January and change and adjust as needed.