This time of year is when I share my resolutions publicly so I have more impetus to finish them. I usually complete about 80% of them. Last year I finished 40% because 2011 as a whole was a long difficult year. I lost a lot. It's hard for me to look back and find the positives, but they were there mixed up with the negatives. They're harder to find ( Read more... )

What's funny to me is the amount of posts kicking 2010 out the door because it was so terrible for them. The way I see it, every year is filled with ups and downs. That's the way of things. Even broken down to a monthly or weekly level, we have moments of warmth and cold. Why, as humans, do we find it so easy to recall the bad memories over the ( Read more... )

This time of year is always hard for me. It's dark early. It's cold. I live alone (well, not entirely. I have a lovely beagle, but he doesn't speak English so good). All I want to do is hibernate. Ha ha! So it's great that the rolling over of the new year allows me a chance to make excuses to DO SOMETHING TO BETTER MY LIFE! Last year (and the year ( Read more... )

Crawling out of the Cave of Holiday Gluttony™ for a moment to post. Colorado did get snow to make this a white Christmas. It's always one of the things I ask "Santa" to bring me. The past three years have been white, so at least he's listening. I was going to take some photos, but family stuff took over and now it's dark outside ( Read more... )

Feliz Año Nuevo!

It is a tradition in Spain (and many Spanish speaking countries) to eat 12 grapes as the last 12 seconds of the old year count down to the new. As I ate my grapes tonight (and almost choked LOL), I thought of how I'd write my first-year post. These are my current resolutions (in no particular order) represented by lucky grapes:

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