A New Year

I’m sitting in my living room drinking a hot cup of tea, with the Christmas lights on and a candle burning in the fireplace. It is all quiet except for the furnace running and the occasional jingling of Gurney’s tags.

I should be cleaning, but I’m just sitting here.

I’m not big on New Year’s Resolutions because I tend to break them quite efficiently and quickly, but I do like to set goals and try to keep them.

This year:

1. To create 300 ‘projects’.  Since buying this house I’ve found that I work on the house and rarely do anything creative. There are rules that go along with this. A project has to be something creative, so it can’t be something like painting the walls or remodeling the bathroom…no ‘renovating the house projects’ count. Some cooking can count such as fancy cakes-baking cookies on a whim does not count. When making multiples of things, like mini food, I can count them each if I choose to (and I’m sure I will become desperate and choose to). All rules are at my discretion and subject to change.
2. To keep a daily journal. I have always thought this was a good idea, and yes, I could do that here if I chose, but some things just shouldn’t be broadcast to the world-contrary to some of the things I read on facebook every day. So instead I printed out an additional copy of the planner I will be using at work. It is one page a day, lined, with the date at the top.
3. To eat healthier. I am not going to say lose weight, exercise more, etc.  I know I should do those things and occasionally I do start exercising more, but I know from experience if I watch what I eat, I will lose weight. I find that lately I eat out way too much though. I need to start planning ahead for a lunch at work that won’t make going out so tempting. In the past couple years I have cut out aspartame from my diet entirely and high fructose corn syrup almost entirely.
4. To write more letters-real letters. I know some people think it is silly when you could write an email or even instant message instantaneously. There’s just something about a letter you receive in your mailbox on actual paper.

I think four goals is a good start.

I’m convinced that 2010 will be a happier year and a productive year for me…so here’s hoping.

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