We’re officially approaching the halfway mark, so I thought it would be a good time to review my progress on my list of resolutions for the year. Well, a good time to review it but not a good time to be me!
Quoting from my original post, the list was as follows:
- Apply for the Queensland Police Service
- Move into my own place
- Learn to surf (rolled over from the 2009 list I didn’t complete)
- Reach at least a level B in the Beep Test (rolled over from 2009 list, slightly modified from the 2.4km run in order to fit the requirements for applying for the Queensland Police Service)
- Go skydiving (rolled over from the 2009 list I didn’t complete)
- Get my senior first aid certificate
- Go kayaking
- Learn to play one song on my guitar
- Blog at least 4 times a month over the course of the entire year
- Lost a further 10% of my body weight, and keep it off.
And 6 months into the year what have I achieved? One. Sort of.
I have been blogging four times a month, which is more likely because of my daily photos than anything else. I’m keeping it up though, which is something to be said in itself.
I haven’t applied for the police service, and I haven’t yet reached a level B in the beep test. I feel like it’s a bit of a cop out, but my knee is still part of the problem. To be fair, I could probably push harder for this but it’s depending on how my body will hold up. Hopefully I am FINALLY over my knee issues soon, and I can stop using it as an excuse.
Towards the end of last year I started losing weight. When I wrote the list at the start of this year I wanted to lose a further 10% and keep it off. I was 82kg when I wrote that list, so I need to lose 8.2kg. Unfortunately my weight has currently stalled between the 75 – 77kg mark; it has been that way for about 2 months now. It has been hard to find something to help me push through it, but I think with a little help from my friends I will get there. I have only got 3kg to go (and 7kg to my goal weight), it’s so close! This is an item that has been on my list for the past 3 years running, I really want to cross it off this year.
Other than that I really haven’t made much of a move on anything else! We took my surfboard with us when we went camping one weekend, and I tried to give it a go but discovered that I struggled to even sit on it. I will definitely need those lessons! I will also have to get my ears checked out too, it feels like I still have a few problems when I dive underwater. If I want to learn to surf, that may just be a problem.
Looking at what I need to do, it is clear that I am going to be extremely busy for the rest of the year. I am starting university for the first time, working full time, and now will be busting my bum every weekend until the end of the year learning to play guitar, surfing or kayaking. I suppose I had better get to it!!
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