Monthly Archives: December 2008

And the lists that go with it. Here goes:

Resolutions (ie. The things I need to Start Doing):

1. Update each of my blogs once a week. Even if it’s to say I don’t have anything to say.
2. Write at least 1000 words of fiction every day.
3. Do something involving physical activity at least three times a week. I’ve succeeded at the goal of changing how I eat. Now it’s time for the really hard part.
4. Learn to actually play my guitar instead of using it as a decorative household accessory.
5. Snuggle the cats and the BF more. Snuggle the keyboard and mouse less.

Un-Resolutions (ie. The things I need to Stop Doing):

1. No. More. Cats. Unless they’re outside. You’re bordering on crazy-cat-lady territory already, and can you really afford to buy more 20lb. bags of cat food and cat litter every week?
2. No more procrastination. True, it can wait until tomorrow…but it probably shouldn’t.
3. No more avoiding the hard stuff because it’s easier to just not do it at all.

Things I’m glad I did in 2008:

1. NaNoWriMo. I actually finished this year, and while it’ll take a lot of work to get it to a publishable form beyond the express 50,000 words, my idea seems original and actually marketable.
2. Putting up Yule decorations instead of being all scroogy and grrr during the holidays.
3. Learning to draw. I’m having a lot of fun with it, and getting better with each picture, and it feels like something worthwhile.
4. Discovering just how much I actually love cooking.
5. Going as green as is possible for someone living in a not-terribly-well-insulated house an hour’s drive from anywhere. It didn’t turn out to cost as much as I feared, and even ended up saving me some money in some places.
6. Finally, for the first time in my life, being able to look in the mirror and think “I am beautiful” and genuinely believe it.