Doesn’t the start of a new season seem like a chance to start fresh? So, with the start of October and fall, I wanted to post my goals on the blog for accountability and support. I’ll post how these things are going throughout the month and post a wrap up at the end of the month.

Fitness
* Start running again – I’m running a half-marathon relay with a friend at the end of the month. We’ve already signed up, so there is no backing out.
* Work out 5 days a week. This should be easy with with running and my twice-weekly aerobics class with a local adult education program.

Food
* Try new recipes with fall foods – apples, pears, pumpkin, butternut squash.

Blog
* Update the layout and get moving on changes/ideas that I have in the pipeline.
* Post more!

Career
* Keep applying for jobs and be more proactive in follow-up. Since the G-20 was in Pittsburgh last week, things were kinda slow for a while. Things have picked up again and I am optimistic.

Fun
* Expand my social circle and don’t be afraid to put myself out there.

Well, there they are. Stay tuned. What goals do you have for October?

I’ve been home for about a week and I’m starting to get a little stir-crazy being in the house all day. I am going out on interviews and stuff, but for the most part I am home, without a car for most of the day.

Tomorrow I have an exciting day planned. I will be going to the bank with my grandma then off to the grocery store and walmart. Yay for getting out of the house. I’m going to see if I can get a bike helmet at walmart so I can bike to places during the day using my mom’s bike.

My social life kinda sucks and is pretty much non-existent. It is hard making new friends and reconnecting with old ones. I did go to trivia with my friend Jen the other night and that was fun, but I haven’t been too active on the social front lately.

Even though I am a little down in the dumps lately, I must remember that friendships and jobs don’t happen overnight and I’ve only been home a week. I am happy to be home and I’m enjoying the break from the fast-paced work environments I’ve been working in over the past few years. I’m also excited that Fall is coming. This means I’ll get to enjoy some of my favorite things:

* Pumpkin Spice Lattes and everything else pumpkin
* FOOTBALL and October baseball
* Tights, boots and scarves
* New TV episodes

I’ve also been keeping busy cleaning out my room and I’ve been finding the most random stuff…

* Every single book V.C Andrews has written – I was obsessed with her novels in my preteen-teenage years.
* Lots and lots of arts supplies from my career as an art major. Someone on freecycle is going to be very happy.
* Lots of art projects, I can’t bear to throw them away, but they are just sitting in boxes. Including the one where we had to draw ourselves in the nude for drawing class, life-sized. When am I ever going to need a 6 foot drawing of myself naked?

What would you find in your childhood bedroom that would make you scratch your head today?