あけましておめでとうございます！ January 22, 2007

It’s the third week into the new year and my blog still hasn’t been updated. Sorry, very busy with…stuff. Ok, tis the time to make resolutions again. First, here’s a review of my 2006 plans and how I fared:

• Debt-free 2006 – Check. I’ve managed to fully eradicate my credit card debt. Wipee! Thanks to my super supportive boyfriend! Well, I still have some balance left, but that’s because of Christmas shopping and nothing else.
• Manage my finances well – Check. I’ve been frugal, buying only the things that I needed. And NO MORE ONLINE SHOPPING! CD Japan what?
• Study for JLPT level 1 – Not accomplished. I did try to study for the JLPT but I stopped even before March.
• Be a better penpal – Not accomplished. Sad.
• Take good care of my health – Check. I’ve been eating healthy and exercising whenever I can. I walk, walk, walk a lot.
• Find a new job. Not accomplished. Bren-duh was the reason why this item was in my to-do list last year. But she was fired so I never looked for a job.
• Go back to grad school – Not accomplished. Never had the time or the money for it.
• Get part-time jobs – Small check. I guess you can count my CD business as a part-time job.

snippets January 12, 2006

our first year anniversary is coming up in 3 weeks. i’m SO excited! we still haven’t decided what we’re going to do, but i know it’s going to be really special.

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my 2006 new year’s resolutions:

i don’t use to make resolutions. i figured i can always make and break them anytime, without waiting for the new year. but for the heck of it, i’ve come up with some concrete resolutions that i want to achieve for this year and i want to make good!

• take good care of my health: eating healthy, working out. but i can’t be a vegan, no matter how hard i try. i love kfc so much. and i’m a peta online subscriber at that. i know,i guess this makes me a hypocrite.
• debt-free 2006!! goodbye, citibank!
• be a better penpal – i miss them all…
• study nihongo harder – 1kyuu, here i come!
• go back to graduate school – i’m only going back when schatz graduates from his degree
  program and he’s going to graduate this year, i’m positive of that. ひさちぶり、dlsu！
• take care of my finances – so far, i’m doing good. i’ve never bought anything online in 2005, and that’s saying a lot, because i used to be really addicted to online shopping. ebay, jpqueen, yesasia, mandarake, cdjapan. you name it! i’m on first-name-basis with the ‘add to cart’ button.