And so she returns... again...
So it happened again, as it always does… I write blog posts… I write them pretty consistently for a while even. And then I disappear again… sometimes for a year or more (as you can clearly see.) I often don’t have much to say that I haven’t already said somewhere else. As you likely know, if you are reading this, I don’t much talk about myself in any way that is terribly important. I see too many people with problems that are real. People who are truly sad and hurting. People who are starving or homeless. My problems, if I have any, are trivial. I grump a lot. I don’t want anybody to think that I don’t realize that. But in most cases, I am also giggling inside as I am grumping. I like to think I have a good internal BS meter for my own bitchiness. I am pretty good at recognizing my own ridiculousness.
That being said… One thing I am terrible at, is figuring out how to get out of my own way. I have goals. I have things I want to do and destinations I want to reach. What I can’t figure out is how to get out of my way so I can actually reach them. I have a great means for sticking to something when I just make a decision to do it. However, making a goal for me doesn’t actually mean I have made the decision. I have to assume that means that the goals I am making aren’t important enough to me … or is it something else?
So I am going to start 2012 with a new set. This is the set I am willing to tell you about. There are others in the background but… to be honest… I am not ready to tell them to you yet. J
1. I am starting my Christmas 2012 planning already. Yes… on the 26th of 2011. J I have a goal to make at least one gift per month in order to not be rushing for ideas in December.
2. I make a lot of cards. It is silly how many I make. I love the card class I take most months and I love the cards we make in them. There is NO reason to be making all these cards and not sharing them with the world. So going forward… they are going to be going out in to the world.
3. Each month I make a new goal… That goal will have the purpose of making ME better. Whether that is physically, spiritually, creatively, whatever. I have no idea what those goals are going to be but to that end…
4. In January I will not eat takeout of any sort, at the restaurant or not, unless there is another person with me. (This takes in to account that my mother’s birthday is in January and we always get together for lunch and shopping. Not gonna miss birthday time with Mom. She’s in her 70s. Hard to know how many are left)
And that is enough for now.
I had to think on what I should make my song for 2012. Every year I pick a new song and it is the first song I use during my workouts as well as my ringtone. The hope is that it inspires me. Not sure if it really does but it feeeeels like it does, so that means something I suppose. I do know there seems to be an underlying joyful theme to the songs I have picked over the last several years. And that isn’t changing in 2012.
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