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In my quest to blog every day for the next year, I figured I’d better have some regularly scheduled posts to help break up the monotony caused by (a) the writers strike, (b) the upcoming Spring semester, and (c) the biannual writing funk I have fallen into:

With that, I am jumping into the Thursday Thirteen pool…this first one is sort of a gimmee…didn’t really require all that much thought, but it’s topical enough as an inaugural post.

1. Try to floss every day. This sounds lame, but I am getting tired of my dental hygienist getting on me because my gums are inflamed. Plus, it’s just the right thing to do.

2. Slow down…and I don’t mean that in a, “…and smell the roses” sort of way. I mean, literally, slow down so I quit walking into doors or countertops and causing physical harm to myself.

3. Get to the gym at least three days a week…preferably five. This really isn’t a lofty goal, because I used to go every day. Our facility just got all brand-new equipment last week (which we tried out this past Monday…fantastic!), which is incredibly motivational. Plus, I am a heck of a lot happier and amenable when I’m working out regularly.

4. Blog every day.

5. Learn how to make a great mojito…not a good one, but a great one.

6. During school, make sure I read at least one book for fun every month. I remember back during my undergrad days, I went months without reading anything for fun and sadly, when I graduated it took a long time to find reading enjoyable again. I’ve got a fairly good stack of books from Christmas to sift through…because life can’t all be about strategic marketing and market research textbooks.

7. Read my magazines before the next month’s issue arrives. This should be easier now that we’ve let our subscriptions to Food & Wine and Conde Nast Traveler lapse. Women’s Health is an easy read on the bike at the gym, and I generally blow through Everyday With Rachael Ray the day I get it, anyway.

8. Walk the doggies more…even if it seems like Daisy hates every second of it.

9. Work my way through my Netflix queue…the goal is 4 movies a month. I think we have something like 60+ movies in there now…including all those “classics” I’ve never seen like The Godfather.

10. Cultivate a better attitude about my current job. Painful, but necessary.

11. Learn the ins and outs of my camera…seems a waste to have such a powerful little device and not know how to unlock it’s full potential.

12. Do a better job of keeping up with and commenting on my favorite blogs - I’ve already added all of them to Google Reader, so I’m on my way with that one.

13. Scratch the doggies more…and scratch Capt. UberHusband more.

How about you?