mid-year goals

• Get back to physical status of last year before starting the new job, which has proven to be more sedentary and snack-filled.
• Brush up on sad state of French knowledge so as not to totally humiliate myself next year when we will get to go to Europe.
• Go to sleep earlier.
• Become neater. Start with desk-spaces, and expand to clothing and books.
• Start planning wedding in earnest.
  

I think the biggest obstacles for me have always been when:

• I get busy at work.
• I get sick.
• I get pissed off because my efforts are not bearing fruit at the rate I want them to.
• I get lazy. But this is really an extension of the above, because when I see results, I feel good and don't tend to slack. But when I don't see results, I fall into the "screw it all" mindset.

The wedding thing is a big problem because neither Seppo nor I have any real clue where to start. We actually have some friends we can trust who have a fair amount of knowledge about weddings (shoutout to Becky! heh), but I am sort of afraid to ask for real details because I'm afraid I'll find out just how scary a workload it will involve to get hitched, and stress about it because there is so much going on at work too. It seems -- and I know this is severely naive of me -- that it shouldn't take much to have a decent, small, wedding. But I already know this is wrong. I know just enough to know how ignorant I am. :D