Resolutions, Goals, Etc.

Two posts within minutes!! You guys really lucky today!
Okay, kidding.  That last post was written last night.  I need to get my goals/resolutions at least started or they will just percolate around in my head and go nowhere.  In no particular order:
*Take drawing class at Lill Street Art Center (preferably this month!!), using up credit I have on file.
*90-120 minutes of exercise a week.  Lose remaining 14 lbs by April.
*Sign up for, study for and TAKE PHR exam in May.
*Pick up an extra babysitting gig or two for spare cash.
*Take an infant/child CPR & First Aid class.
*Get guitar back, begin practicing again as time permits.
*Stop bending over backwards for other people.
*Be flexible, be calm, be forgiving.
*Have talk with boss in January if work does not seem to be picking up, determine best course of action.
ETA:  Good grief, it is not even January yet and  I am filling in my (wonderful) new 2008 planner that my mom got me for Christmas…

Not Really My “Best” Friend

Guys, I should warn you now, I get really reflective the days leading into the new year.  In fact, at some point I need to sit down and map out all my goals and resolutions and such because I take them pretty seriously.
Anyway.  I did not see my “best” friend at Christmas.  I put that in quotes because I am realizing that saying I have a best friend at age 30+ is kind of silly.  I have a lot of friends, and for awhile she was my best friend simply based on duration of friendship (age 8 to present).  But if you don’t see or talk to a person hardly at all in the course of a year, are they really your best friend?
I’m not complaining, honest.  I used to be very hurt by the fact we were no longer top priority in each others’ lives but lives change.  I have seen my friends change both in terms of their lives and just in general terms of the roster.  There are people who have fallen off my social circle just since last year.  And of course there are new people who have been welcomed in. 
I have a friend who has ridden in an ambulance with me.  I have a friend who I talk to every day without fail.  I have a friend who was my roommate for two years in college. I have friends who I don’t really socialize with much anymore but I know would be there in a pinch, and I know care for me.  I have a whole new group of friends by transitive property since I met E.
How can I rank any over any other?  I can’t.  They are all important to me, and we all have our lives to live.  People will come and go and move away and get mad and get over being mad because that is how it works.  Some friends will stay there forever and always, changing with me.  Some will drift quietly away and I may only see them at their weddings.  I realize now that it’s all okay.