New Year's Resolutions

I am going to publicly announce my New Year's resolutions, in hopes that it will help me stick with them. I'll think I'll do one post for each resolution. So here goes:

1. Be more consious about the things that I do.

I have this tendency to not think about the things that I do when I do them. Or I do a lot of things very absentmindedly. I often misplace things. It's not neccesarily because I'm lazy, I just don't think about the things I'm doing. For example, sometimes I'll get my wallet out of my purse and instead of putting it back, I put it in my pocket? Why? I don't know...it would have taken me the same amount of time to put it in my purse rather than my pocket. And it's not just that it inconveniences me...sometimes the results cam be very bad! Let's look at the past week alone (granted, this isn't a typical week...):

Sunday I went grocery shopping. I have a two door mistusbishi Eclipse. I get out of my car and pull the seat forward so I can get Chloe out. I'm kind of sitting on kneeling in the back seat when I see a gift card I had previously purchased. (Don't ask why it was in the back seat...) So I grab it, wrip it out of the paper packaging, and grab Chloe. Well. Sometime between then and the time I reach the checkout line, I realize that I can't find it. Did I mention that it was a $75 Mastercard gift card???

Yesterday I pull into the drive thru at Arby's. My plan was to grab something quick for Chloe to eat on our way to swimming lessons. I order, then pull up to the windown. I go to reach for my wallet, when I realize I can't find it. I check all the usual places:my purse, my pocket, passenger seat, behind the driver seat. Nothing. I tell the guy at the window that I can't find my wallet, and ask if he minds whether I pull into a parking space and look for it. He responds for me to just take the food, if I find it, pay for it, if not, don't worry about it. Pretty awesome guy. So. I pull into a parking space and search my car. Nope. Not there. I flash back to picking Chloe up from my mom's.

I grab my wallet and put it in my pocket. We leave. I get to my car and try to open the door. It's locked. So I start to reach into my pocket for my keys. Can't reach them...my wallet is in the way. I take my wallet out of my car and put it on top of my car. I unlock my car. By this time Chloe has made her way back towards my mom's house, so I go grab her and put her in the car. Then I drive 3.6 miles to Arby's. So either the wallet is in my car, or I never removed it from the top of my car. I have my mom go look for it maybe 10 minutes later...she can't find it.
When I get home, I search my car again. Today I searched it once or twice more. Then I went to my mom's and walked the path that I took when I left. Correction: I walked the first mile (1.0 miles per google maps). Then I walked that same path back. So two miles round trip. In the snow. Windchill of 15 degrees. And no wallet.

So let's recap what I've lost: Driver's licence, Debit Card, Credit Card, Savings Account Card, Insurance Cards, Circuit City Card, Zoo Membership, Children's Museum Membership, HSA Card, and gift cards.

It wouldn't be so bad if it was only credit cards and such...I can easily replace those. But I had about $130 in Walmart gift cards, and a $20 gift card. Those, coupled with the other gift card, means I've lost a total of about $225. Nice. And I have no way to spend any money.

I'm hoping it turns up. I'm going to go search my car again...