New Years Resolutions.

I’ve been thinking and praying a lot about New Years resolutions. I usually will have none of it at all. But I’ve bookmarked a few blog posts in my delicious, which either have concepts on New Years Resolutions, or actual resolutions that I like.So I’ve decided to do it this year, and to set achieveable goals.

My theme for 2009 is: Priority.

I’m sick of doing pointless things, and wasting time. This year I am taking life seriously, and making the most of the time I have. It also involves segregating certain aspects of life- not letting work take up all my time, and not letting the internet take too much time either.

1. Focus on God. I probably say this every year, but I am serious about it now. Luke and I are going on a pilgrimage to Israel in less then two weeks, which will be a great kick start to the year.

2. Love. Spend more time with Luke, just us, spend time with family, and making sure I let people know that I love them. Letting LOVE exude from my character, and showing love even to those people who annoy me. I need to make love a priority in life.

Also, to let work be work and life be life. I work at my parent’s house, so it’s really quite hard to sometimes just ‘hang out’, and it’s easy, because it’s so close, to just spend lots of time there working, and not enough time with Luke.

3. Tell the truth. I like to make stuff up, so this year I’m going to make sure I always tell the truth, even when I’ve done the wrong thing.

4. Be more involved online. I want to spend more time networking, both with my eLearning work, and my personal stuff. This means making the effort to comment on more blogs, maintain my ela blog, bookmark in delicious, post photos to flickr and deviant art, and stay active in twitter, and my personal blogging. I’d also like to make this blog reflect more a ‘whole’ of me- not just the personal side of me.

I’m making a good start to it by being involved in the group twitter365 on flickr.

5. Be healthier. Loose some weight, eat whole foods, exercise regularly, etc. etc. I’m going to go for walks with Pepper, and if I don’t do that, then spend some time on the wii fit. This last month I’ve actually been a lot better at it, so here’s hoping that January is better still!

6. Focus of photography. I’ve found a great site that gives you assignments every week, so I’m going to try to be part of that more, and really learn more about how to increase my skills and knowledge, and learn some new techniques. This means being a regular on Deviant Art, and learning from my photographer friends, like Cam.

So those are my main goals. This year I hope to update monthly on how they’re going, and review them. I also want to spend time doing more crafts and painting if I get the chance, and some more money.

Tags: 2008, 2009, deviantart, ela, elearning, flickr, health, Internet, newyears, online, photography, wii

Lately…

Lately I’ve been learning a few things about myself and about my relationship with Luke. Lately I have also been very, very busy. I will endevour to write about the things that I’ve learnt, more this week. But I make no promises, as promises related to blogging are certainly not going so well for me right now!

If you’re missing a bit of Talia, then you can always check the podcast I was in last night!! I’m talking about Moodle, a Learning Management System, and I would love it if you left some feedback. I am feeling very blessed to have been asked to be involved, and I felt like I learnt a lot while I was there!! The best 40 minutes I’ve spent all weekend. (Not hard, as the weekend was full of RAIN, RAIN, RAIN!!).

Oh, and so you’re aware, We have deecided on laminate wood floors, which we are putting together this week, ready for my party this weekend. I will snag the photo off Aaron of the HUGE screen we played wii on last night (yay for a projector), then hopefully I will twitter it, and post it here.

No photos of my 21st really because we missing our camera. I am totally saving up for my digital SLR. Mum and Dad gave me $200 for it, and Luke gave me another $200 for it. So hopefully, if I get a bit of birthday money, and raid my piggy bank I will make it to $1000 soon.

So birthday post, and ‘things I’ve learnt’ post to come soon!

Tags: $200, birthday, camera, floor, laminate, love, money, update, wii