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November Resolutions Update

  1. Read through my Bible this year before I get married May 23 this year; the entire thing, cover to cover, reading at least a chapter every single day.
    I have exactly ten pages of the Bible left to read in December. I’m in Revelation 5, when a bunch of seals start getting opened. Talk about some crazy stuff.

  2. Use my credit card whenever possible but never carry a balance.
    Once again the budget saved us. Aside from having four people over for Thanksgiving (plus ourselves!) we upgraded our media center and paid almost $400 dollars to fix the truck again after the front part of the starter fell off and broke into a bunch of tiny pieces inside the flywheel housing. But it all got paid without touching our emergency savings. Hooray budgets!

  3. Contribute the maximum amount to my Roth IRA account.
    Done for the year, $5,000. A penny saved is a penny earned?

  4. Build a three-month emergency fund.
    Done.

  5. Get my two mile run time under 15 minutes.
    So, at the end of last month, I wrote that I was in the 15:30 to 16:00 range on my two mile. Not so, as I found out. Apparently the two mile course I’d measured out with the odometer in my wife’s Subaru was not, in fact, two miles. I ran my two-mile on an actual two-mile track on November third, and I ran a 16:49. Way off. But I threw myself into it, and yesterday morning, on the same track, I ran a 15:23. I’ll be under 15:00 by New Years, definitely.

  6. Finish the Navigators’ “Design for Discipleship” series of Bible studies.
    I’m a little bit into book six (somewhere in chapter two of five), and I’m sorry to say that this goal isn’t going to happen. Book six takes a lot of thought, time, and effort, and I know book seven is going to be even more challenging, so there’s no way I can devote enough time to them to finish by January first and get anything out of the best two books in the series. I certainly could have made it to my goal, but I just didn’t put enough time into it early on.

  7. Blog at least once a week, plus a monthly update on my resolutions.
    So I posted four times this month. That’s technically once a week, I suppose, but it’s pretty lousy. And my resolutions update is late. Shows how much thought has gone into the blog. Life just eats away at your time, you know? Hopefully I’ll have more time to put into it this month since we’re having a quiet time here for the holidays.