This week, as an experiment of sorts, I’m going to be a vegetarian. I thought about going completely vegan, but I think I’d have a hard time avoiding cheese and things that use eggs or butter. I am trying to avoid too much cheese because it’s really not the healthiest thing in the world. I don’t eat eggs that often, but I’m sure many of the things I eat are made with them.

Today, I made up a list of dinners I’m cooking for the week. It was exciting because I’m trying out new things I haven’t tried before. I’m particularly excited about the tofu stir fry and the falafel sandwiches I have planned this week.

Last year when I was doing Weight Watchers, I was doing very well at making sure I had pretty balanced meals. Although I’d always been good about eating fruits and vegetables before doing Weight Watchers, I probably wasn’t quite eating enough. Since I officially stopped doing Weight Watchers in October, I’ve fallen off the wagon a little bit. Amazingly, probably because I was keeping up with exercising and kick started my metabolism from eating better, I have managed to stay steady at the weight I ended at.

I hope this week I can start to get myself back on track being more balanced and healthy. Robert and I have been eating out a bit too much lately, mostly because I had a drastic change in schedule after I got my new job.

Robert and I decided today we’re going to start getting up in the morning and jogging. Yikes. Anyone who knows me knows I don’t exactly like running. Honestly, I don’t like how I feel afterward: like I’m going to collapse and die. I’m hoping that now that I’m more in shape, I’ll like it better.

This year, my goal is to make a lot of positive changes in my life. I’m trying to figure out the best ways to get happy and stay happy. I’m going to try to get out of this quarter-life crisis (QLC) and figure out what exactly I am doing with my life.

Although lately I’ve been having some kind of dark days, I think I’m ultimately going to come out of this QLC a better person. I’ve made quite a few goals for myself this year; first and foremost personality-wise, I’m going to be more assertive and confident. I’ll try to keep up-to-date with that on the blog.

This weekend, Robert and I decided our Christmas presents to each other and  way we were going to spend some of our extra hard-earned savings was to get iPhones. We’ve only had them for two days, but so far, they are absolutely awesome.

Some things that I can do that now I feel I can’t live without:

• Check Associated Press and New York Times news stories constantly.

• Check the weather and the complete weather forecast for the week.
• Take photos that are just as good as the kind you can get from any other point-and-shoot.
• Check my e-mail ANYWHERE.
• GPS. Awesome.

Other things that are cool that I can live without, but I’m going to think I can’t live without in a few weeks:

• I can hold up my iPhone to a song I hear on the radio, and it will identify the song and artist for me. And, I can immediately purchase it from iTunes.
• I can follow text message conversations like an IM conversation… I can see the conversation from start to finish.
• I can listen to Pandora radio in my car, while walking my dog, anywhere.
• I can check Facebook more often. That’s probably not good.
• I could be out somewhere and be looking for, say, a pharmacy nearby, and I can find one.

I think the biggest challenge is going to be not letting the phone distract me. I’ve been very good about not checking personal e-mail at work or any of those social networking programs. I have to keep it that way even though it will be so much easier.