My Resolutions for 2009:

1.  Continue reading through the Bible:
     üGalatians
     üEphesians
     üPhilippians (by end of Jan.)
     üProverbs
     üColossians
     üI Thessalonians (by end of March)
     ü2 Thessalonians
     ü Ecclesiastes
     ü I Timothy
     üSong of Solomon
     ü2 Timothy
     üIsaiah (by end of July)
     üTitus
     üPhilemon
     üHebrews (by end of August)
     üJeremiah
        James (by end of November)
        I Peter
        2 Peter
        Lamentations

2.  Fitness/Running
       a) Resistance/Weight Training once a week
       b) Timed 5 miles once a week (can substitute 5K or longer race)
       c) Hill training (1/2 mi.), Sprint training (1/2 mi.), or bicycling (2 mi.) weekly
    d) Run 300 miles in 2009 (avg. 25 per month)
    e)  Maintain weight at 117 lbs.

How I am doing

January
ü1)  read Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians
    2)    a)  2 times
          üb)  5 times
          üc)  4 times
     üd)  26.5 miles
         üe)  116 lbs.

February  (sick 1 week, recovering 1 week)
ü1)  read Proverbs
    2)    a)  0 times
          üb)  4 times
          c) 1 time
      d)  17.5 miles (YTD 44.0)
          üe)  117 lbs.

March
ü1)  read Colossians & 1 Thessalonians
    2)    a)  2 times
               b) 2 times
           üc) 4 times
     üd)  31.75 miles (YTD 75.75)
           e)  118 lbs.

April
ü1)  read 2 Thessalonians
    2)    a)  1 time
               b) 3 times
           üc) 4 times
     üd)  33.05 miles (YTD 108.8)
           e)  119.5 lbs.

May
ü1)  read Ecclesiastes & 1 Timothy
    2) üa)  4 times
          b)  3 times
          üc)  6 times
     üd)  23.3 miles (YTD 132.1)
         e)  119 lbs.

June
ü1)  read Song of Solomon and 2 Timothy
    2) üa)  4 times
          üb)  4 times
          üc)  4 times
     üd)  26.5 miles (YTD 158.6)
         e)  118 lbs.

July
ü1)  read Isaiah, Titus, Philemon
    2)    a)  0 times
          üb) 4 times
               c) 3 times
     üd)  29.62 miles (YTD 188.22)
           e) ?

August
ü1)  read Hebrews
    2)    a)  2 times
               b) 3 times
               c) 2 times
     üd)  25.3 miles (YTD 213.52)
           e) 120 lbs.

September
ü1)  read Jeremiah 1-6
    2) üa)  4 times
               b) 3 times
           üc) 4 times
     üd)  22.35 miles (YTD 235.87)
           e) 120.5 lbs


October
ü1)  read Jeremiah 7-52   
    2)  a)  2 times
            b) 2 times
            c) 2 times
     üd)  24.45 miles (YTD 260.32)
           e) 119 lbs


November
December 



A Look Back at 2008

Highlights:
Frida Kahlo art exhibit in Philadelphia (May)
genealogy work
Blue Ridge Mtns. ancestry trip (June)
Reconnected with many old friends via social network
"El Greco to Velazquez" art exhibit at Nasher Museum, Duke University (Oct.)
ran four 5K races (May, June, July, Dec.)
ran total of 300 miles
Emerald Isle vacation (Dec.)


Movies I Saw:
 A Good Year (2007)
 Away from Her (2007)
 Definitely, Maybe (2008)
*The Great Debaters (2008)
 The Graduate (1967)
 Send Me No Flowers (1964)
*Under the Same Moon (2008)
 The Trouble with Angels (1966)
*The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (2006)
 Mama Mia (2008)
*A Raisin in the Sun (2008)
 Leatherbacks (2008)
 Then She Found Me (2008)
 Fireproof (2008)
(*my favorites)


My 2008 Bible Reading:
1 Chronicles
2 Chronicles
Romans
Ezra
Nehemiah
Esther
1 Corinthians
Job
2 Corinthians
Psalms


Movies watched in 2009:  The Ultimate Gift (2006); *Prayers for Bobby (2009); *The Secret Life of Bees (2008); *Milk (2008); Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961, repeat); In the Time of the Butterflies (2001, repeat); *For the Bible Tells Me So (2007, repeat); Mona Lisa Smile (2003, repeat); Slumdog Millionaire (2008); *Yentl (1983, repeat); Doubt (2009); Seven Pounds (2008); 1776 (1972); *Sally Hemings - An American Scandal (2000); Trembling Before G_d (2001); The Scarlet Letter (1995); Eleanor Roosevelt: American Experience (1999); In and Out (1997), Chocolat (2001), *The Kite Runner (2007), Glass Menagerie (1973), Grease (1978, repeat), Les Miserables (1978), Boys Don't Cry (1999), Moonstruck (1987), *Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony (1999), One Woman, One Vote: American Experience (2005), *Iron Jawed Angels (2004)

Books read in 2009:  Same Kind of Different as Me (Hall/Moore/Vincent); Orlean Puckett: The Life of a Mtn. Midwife, 1844-1939 (Karen Cecil Smith); Helen Barrett Montgomery (Kendal Mobley); Twice as Good: Condoleezza Rice and her Path to Power (Marcus Mabry), The House at Pooh Corner (A.A. Milne)

Blog posted for accountability. 
See 2008 post here