Wowie wow wow! Did I really go a whole week without posting? That doesn't seem like me. Except that I'm still busier than a one-armed paper hanger trying to make up for the 4 months that I neglected my house and (sometimes) my kids while swamped with school work. I'm hoping to come up for air around mid-next week. Next semester promises to be much more relaxed with only one Poetry class and my internship organizing a production of Shakespeare's "The Tempest" in a low-income school.
Anyway--that's where I am. It should be interesting to start reading blogs again since my readership has had a huge turnover and most of my bloggy friends have moved on to WordPress and dot coms now. Did I mention I knew the Nester and her sister Chatty Emily when they only had 3 or 4 comments? That I was one of the original SITStas? *sigh* Those were the days. I really wish there were two of me!
Now on to writing about my New Year's Resolutions. Last year I resolved not to resolve, and I'm happy to report I kept that one up 100%! I'm thinking I should do that again this year, but my brain is saying one year off is all we really needed. So this year, I'm resolving to.........
*Spend more one on one time with my kids. I'm going to rotate through the boys every other Friday and take an hour to do something special with them individually. We do a lot of family things, but I know it's important that they get some just Mom time too.
*Finish my poetry manuscript. "In Other Words" is more than 1/2 way done and I know if I can just buckle down and commit to it, I can get it finished. On that same note--at the encouragement of a professor, I'd like to try and get one of my stories ("The Wicked Men") published in a fiction periodical as well. Time to start getting my name back out there again if I hope to make a career of this writing thing!
*Improve my grammar. Yeah, I can write, but apparently my grammar (and I quote my grammar Nazi friend here...) "makes (people) cringe like a child biting into a freshly-cut lemon". That's not harsh at all, is it? So, guess I better do a little daily learning about my tenses :)!
*Figure out how to make two of me. Didn't I already say I wished for that? If I can find out how to do it, I'll share the secret with all of you......for a price!
Finally, I wanted to share the quote I've chosen to guide me through my 2010. I'm putting it up by my bed and plan to read and ponder it daily:
"As a new year begins and we try to benefit from a proper view of what has gone before, I plead with you not to dwell on days now gone nor to yearn vainly for yesterdays, however good those yesterdays may have been. The past is to be learned from but not lived in. And when we have learned what we need to learn and have brought with us the best that we have experienced, then we look ahead and remember that faith is always pointed toward the future." ~Jeffrey R. Holland
Now, for the fun part. Tell me something you will NOT be resolving to do. For example, I will not resolve to give up my affair with Ben and Jerry. Nope. Not going to happen. I don't care how naughty I am for loving two men at once, their ice cream is worth the big scarlet "I" I must wear :).
****Happy 2010. May it find you healthy, happy, engaged in giving, and blessed with all kinds of pleasant surprises.****
15 comments:
Happy New Year! I love the post and I love that I get to read your posts. Many blessings to you and the boys.
Ha ha--my pleasant surprise in 2009 was a baby and I don't think I could handle another this year. ;)
I knew the Nester and Emily in the beginning too! In fact, the Nester found my blog surfing the net, and I remember checking out her blog and being blown away that a real-life person actually had such a well-decorated house that looked like it belonged in a magazine.
I've got to resolve to quit detonating french bombs--especially around my kids. I'm wrose than a cussing Marine, so my aunt (who was a Marine) tells me. I resolved a few other things and wrote them on my blog to try to force me to do them. We'll see, I suppose. Should I add not to let Mr Destructo drive me to the loony bin?
I resolved NOT to give up my daily dose of soda or quit recording Days Of Our Lives. A girl's gotta have some vices, right?
But I *am* going to give up yelling at my children at the end of the day, I'm resolved to do some sort of exercise once daily, and stop cooking packaged meals from a box.
I will not be resolving to stop eating my chocolates. See's and I have a deep relationship, I need those truffles, even if it means I have to climb the stairs a hundred times more offten than I would otherwise.
I resolve not to bite my tongue or curb my emotions when dealing with what I want and need in my life. Others will get what they deserve when dealing with me. And I hope all will give me what I deserve when I am stepping on toes....intentional or not.
Happy New Year to all!
Love the quote and I will use it too. I need it:) I will NOT give up my horribly raunchy reality tv shows. That is why I pay to have a DVR and it is well used. But I do resolve to watch them when no one is around to make fun of me.
I decided last year not to resolve and then resolve again this year, too!! LOL
I resolve NOT to give up my reality TV shows like M :) That was a good one so I am stealing it from her.
Jarom keeps trying to talk me into Wordpress....I just can't do it. Change is too hard for me.
LOVE that talk by Elder Holland, one of my favorites. 2010 is the year I will run a 5K for the first time in my life. I'm going to gain some self control, and I'd like to get a little closer to the Lord with my own personal study time. (But I resolve that every year. Guess I'll try again this year.)
I'm NOT going to make a resolution that will cause me to obsess about my weight too much.
It was so good to see you Sunday! I wish I could have sat and talked for hours. You looked gorgeous!
Looks like a GREAT list:-)
I've resolved to NOT blog so much, but I WILL NOT resolve to give up reading yours because it's my fav.
:)
Happy New Year Jennifer.
PS: I don't think your grammar is bad at all!
Happy New Year Jennifer! I just wanted you to know how much I love your blog. I hope you have a FANTASTIC 2010!!!
XOOX
Jen
I will NOT resolve to stop chasing pirates :)
Good luck with your writing. I had a professor suggest I publish a paper I wrote last semester. . .but it was a critical essay on Heart of Darkness. I hate writing critical essays. I want to write fun stuff. Maybe I will keep entering writing contests. It was really fun to win one.
And if you figure out that cloning thing. . .yeah, I'd pay for that.
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