New Year's Resolutions

So last year I listed Brandon's and my resolutions for 2011. Let's see how we did:

Dana's:

1. Read at LEAST one new book a month outside of classes. (Nope, I was probably pretty close but reading for classes took up a lot of my time.) 

2. Run a half-marathon in April! (HA! I think I was committed to doing this for like a month.)

3. Don't do drugs. (I did do this one! YAY!)

Brandon's:

1. Do better in classes and at work. (He did accomplish this. Last semester was his best semester so far and he has done well at work and will be starting at H&R Block next week.)

2. Get into better shape and run the St. George marathon. (He did half of this. I think he has gotten into better shape, but he didn't run a marathon.) 

3. Not to commit a hate crime. (As far as I know he did not commit a hate crime.)

Well, maybe this year will be better. Here are my resolutions for 2012:

1. Read 26 books. This means I will read one book every two weeks. I really think this will be doable because I am done with my literature courses.

2. Get into better shape. Basically for this I want to build some muscle and get into a more routined exercise habit.

3. Break some really bad language habits I have:

a. I never say the word "to" so basically a sentence I might say is "I go Montana." Yeah, it is pretty bad...

b. Work on pronouns. I have found that if I am tired or if I am talking about multiple people I mix up pronouns (like I will refer to a guy as a girl). 

c. Stop ending sentence with either "so" or "and such." I keep reminding myself that this now how I should end a sentence. When I am done with a sentence I should just be done and not insert filler words.

3. Do my 60 days for student teaching consecutively. This is an easy one. Basically I need to be at school during a regular school day for 60 days. If I don't miss a day I will be done April 2. I don't plan on missing unless I am deathly ill, but I have started taking airborne and I think that has been helping my immune system.

4. Don't do drugs! (This way I know now that I will keep at least one resolution for sure.)

Brandon's:

1. Get into better shape. 

Happy New Year Everyone!

Sleep Talking: Round 2

I had written before that Brandon often talks in his sleep, but the other night he probably did the strangest thing I have ever seen him do in his sleep. As you know, we recently got a cat and one night I woke up and for some reason I thought Brandon's arm was our cat so I started petting it (obviously I do weird things too when I sleep). Well, I guess this kind of startled Brandon and he put his hands on my cheeks and stared at me and screamed, "Stop looking retarded!" He then went back to sleep.

Cooking Efficiently

This might be a really lame post, but hey maybe it will inspire some people.

So the past couple of months Brandon and I have been awful about cooking and eating meals at home. For the most part Brandon would just have Panda Express every time he worked and I would get some other fast food item. Of course this isn't really healthy and isn't so good for our bank account.

We started discussing what we could do to improve this and Brandon came up with the idea that on Sundays we make three meals and freeze some of them and put the rest in the fridge. Today marked the second week of doing this and so far it has been great!

AND that is it for this blog post. We really are boring people. This is the most exciting thing going on in our lives besides having a cat.