Resolutions Are Not The Enemy, Negativity Is!

 

New Year’s resolutions seem to get a fair amount of negative press these days…I saw numerous comments on my Facebook wall on New Year’s Day in reference to making changes all year instead at the beginning, setting one’s self up for failure, being unrealistic. I can agree with those statements to a certain extent but I also find myself exasperated at those type of comments. They are so negative about resolutions being negative! Of course we can choose to make changes any time of year (and I DO) but I actually like the idea of starting off a fresh, new year with some goals in mind. I enjoy thinking ahead to the next year and what I hope to accomplish in my life. Many times a broken resolution was an unrealistic goal in the first place, one the maker knew they were going to end up breaking, eventually. I make realistic resolutions that I know I can either keep or at least will not devastate me if I “fail” to follow through but I also want them to be challenging so I have a sense of accomplishment when I reach my goal. By the end of the year, if I don’t keep one or two or all of them, so what? I can try again next year or just change my goals. They are goals, not contracts with myself, written in stone. No big deal. Resolutions and the making or breaking of them is not a life or death situation. If you chose not to make them this year for whatever reason, I urge you to not “poo-poo” the idea for your friends and family who have made them. Pass on the sarcasm and negative “new year’s resolutions are stupid” type of comments and support your friends and family in their goals for 2012. Meeting their goals will be easier and celebrating them will be so much sweeter if they have your support along the way.

So, without further ado, my New Year’s Resolutions for 2012:

Learn to work with polymer clay
Explore Needle Felting
Sew more
Blog more
Go to bed earlier, wake up earlier
Manage my time more efficiently
Find my old organized self – she got lost somewhere in the last 3 years and I want her back!!
Generally, be a better person - less critical, less judgmental, more positive, more joyful.
Smile more.
Stop being so hard on myself
Use my DSLR camera more, in manual mode(s)
Transform my house into a home, one room at a time – I’ve lived here for nearly 2 years and still do not have paint or pictures on the walls.
Start the Couch 2 5K program – when the weather warms up!

Huh. As I made my list above, the word “more” leapt out at me a few times so I guess I’m already halfway there on those goals, I just need to make them a higher priority!

What about you? Did you make resolutions or goals for 2012? Why or why not?

College Boy Grey

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It’s nearly Christmas and my prodigal son has returned home to the nest from college to spend time with family. I miss College Boy terribly and having him home, having all three of my children together under my roof for the holidays is the best gift ever. All the chocolate diamonds in the world cannot compare, my heart is whole and content.

Tonight, I had to chuckle when I pulled his laundry out of the dryer. His “whites” are all the identical shade of “college boy grey”. I think while he is home this time I will introduce him to that old magical, miracle concoction known as bleach…

Another Page Is Turned, A New Chapter Begun

 

Yesterday I was finally able to close a chapter in the book that is the story of my life. The chapter was full of some really great parts and some not so great parts. The sum of those parts is how I came to be who I am today but it was a still a chapter that needed closing as today really is the first day of the rest of my life. This new chapter that is today and tomorrow is a fresh clean page and will unfold on this blog. If you’d like to follow along on the rest of my life’s journey and share it with me, please feel free to sign up for email notifications in the right column.

This blog is going to be about my life, my thoughts, my opinions and anything/everything in between. My journal. I’ve always had this driven need to write. Words make me incredibly happy and I am a self-professed sesquipedalian. Verbose. Loquacious. Wordy. I love big $5 words, I love archaic words and I love writing. Oddly enough, these loves don’t often go together and so I struggle sometimes to get my point across. It can take me for-ev-er to get from point A to point B. I’m a meandering writer. You’ve been warned.

I had a blog several years ago and I fell into the trap of making it into what others expected. Not this time. This time it’s all about me. I’ve made an agreement with myself to write what I want, when I want and how I want. I doubt I’ll post every day. One day I might simply post a photo of one of my gorgeous kids. The next time I might post a soapbox rant that’ll have my mom running for a bar of soap to wash out my potty mouth. Who knows? I don’t. I’m content to just let this blog evolve into whatever it naturally becomes.

Whether you are family, friend or stranger who clicked the random button, I hope you’ll stay awhile and get to know me better because I‘d love to get to know you better, too.

So here I go, another page is turned and a new chapter begun…

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