Birthday Goals

Here I am, back again to review how I did on my goals for the year.


1.) Be better about writing in my blog.
     Major fail on this one, for a while I was working on personal stuff on Friday nights because Marley had game night with my brothers on Friday nights but then that petered out as they all have different lives & their own families to deal with.  We definitely need to work on having a set schedule and to work in some personal time.

2.) Relationships.
     Major fail here as well.  The only person I actually managed to call on their birthday was Earl and he didn't even answer the phone because he didn't save my new number in his phone for some reason...It didn't help that for some reason I thought I could get by without a calendar this year and by the time I realized what a silly mistake that was I couldn't find calendars anywhere except on Amazon for $10 which made me mad because usually I buy one for a dollar or two around new years.  When I finally did find one at Office Max it had no pictures on it & didn't start until July.  And on top of that, I can't find my old calendar to write down everyone's birthday on it.  I'll try again on this one this year.  I did however get up to date on Mimi's blog but that was several months ago so I'm still not current and I've only read here and there from Amy's.

3.) Be more aggressive in my professional life.  This includes getting a better job whether by promotion or a job somewhere else.
     I did succeed in this goal.  I got several raises over the last year and our whole call center actually got promoted which was very exciting and I enjoy my job a lot better with the added responsibilities.  I also got put on the projects team which means that sometimes I get to walk around the call center and help people who have questions and are on long calls with weird issues.  I also have recently begun taking sup calls which means I get to pretend to be a supervisor and talk to angry customers who think I have the ability to override company policy without being fired. Silly customers. :)  I've been trying to get into the success bay which is sort of like being a trainer.  After training new agents are put into Success Bay for 2 weeks where they take calls like they normally do but with closer supervision and help.  I wasn't able to get into that yet due to some attendance issues but now I'm thinking of trying for an actual supervisor again.  One of the guys at work I'm sort of friends with who just became a supervisor a few months ago said there's going to be a supervisor position opening up next month and he thinks I would be really good at it.  Also, the other day at work I took 5 sup calls in an hour & 15 minutes.  I was pretty proud of that.

4.) Pay more attention to personal grooming. 
     I have definitely gotten better and managing my finger & toe nails but not too much better at brushing my teeth twice a day.  On the plus side Marley & I got an electric tooth brush and I actually feel like my teeth are cleaner because it has a much smaller head and gets my small teeth really good.

5.) Try something new
     I wanted to blog about the specific things that I tried but I don't remember what they were, luckily I did actually try a few new things.


All in all I didn't do nearly as good at accomplishing my goals as I wanted to or as good as I have done in the past.  I kind of feel like I've been learning life all over again recently.  I'm going to keep all of these on my list for this year except for number 4 and I'm going to add be more active.  I never thought I cared about how skinny I  was until I stopped being skinny and now I'm just like everyone else.  Although, I secretly think I'm more upset about it because I have to buy new clothes and I don't like spending money or clothes shopping than because I don't like my body shape.  But I do want to be more fit so that when I finally can have kids I'll be healthy enough to take care of them & my arms are not what they used to be when I was in school and carrying things around all the time, I don't want to be dropping babies all over the place, they'll have enough trouble as is with the brains they'll get from Marley & me without having to deal with brain damage because of my weak arms.