Happy New Year!! My god it's alrady been a freakin' year...

I can't believe an entire year has past since all of the resolutions I made last year. So much has happened it's insane. I worked for half a year at a public relations firm, joined my new job right after in August at the college and figured out a bit more about myself and yet I'm still not completely sure what I want out of life. So - in order to sort of sort out myself a bit more I thought I'd take a look at last year's resolutions and put down my new ones for this year.

So starting with last year, they were:

1. Do yoga, or at least the breathing bit, everyday to prevent me from losing my mind. Yeah no that didn't happen and now can't because I have a slip disc. It's ok since I hate yoga anyway.

2. Submit a story for the The MPH - Alliance Bank National Short Story Prize 2008, due by the end of March 2009. Nope. Didn't happen. I'll do it next year- promise!

3. Do at least one voice over recording audition. I can't! It's in my job contract that I can't.

4. Save RM I-can't-say-on-the-internet by the end of the year. A few thousand short.

5. Smile, even when I don't feel like it. I do this everyday.

6. Understand that the grass isn't greener on the other side. Made good progress on this.

7. Don't judge and don't be self righteous, people are people and I am as fallible as the next person. I'm still pretty self-righteous. Because I am right.

8. Dance like a madwoman. Can't do that so much anymore... but will make it there.

9. Sing out loud. Check.

So for this year I've decided I'm going to keep it short simple and achievable.

1. Figure out what I want to do in life (in relation to my career) and do it.

2. Lose 12 lbs because these love handles are not going anywhere by positive thinking.

3. Make some progress in the manfriend department.

See? Simple.

Happy New Year!!

I know, it's three days too late but WHATEVER, Happy New Year y'all. Now I've never been the type of person to make resolutions. In fact I don't think I've ever made a resolution on New Years in my life, simply because I never really thought one year moving into the next was a big deal. Probably because I'm just so young that it never occurred to me that hey, wait, this isn't going to keep happening forever for me.

So this year, on the 1st of January I took out a notebook and started writing down all the things I want to do or change this year. And I'm sharing it with you because hell, they may or may not happen but I have to try. Here they are:

New Year Resolutions 2009

1. Do yoga, or at least the breathing bit, everyday to prevent me from losing my mind.

2. Submit a story for the The MPH - Alliance Bank National Short Story Prize 2008, due by the end of March 2009.

3. Do at least one voice over recording audition.

4. Save RM I-can't-say-on-the-internet by the end of the year.

5. Smile, even when I don't feel like it.

6. Understand that the grass isn't greener on the other side.

7. Don't judge and don't be self righteous, people are people and I am as fallible as the next person.

8. Dance like a madwoman.

9. Sing out loud.

So that's 9 resolutions for the year 2009, I might have to figure out something new as the years go on because otherwise that list is gonna get long. I'll check in with how they're going from time to time. But for the first one, I'm going back to my yoga class tomorrow after a month long hiatus so I must be on the right track. :)

Anyway, Happy New Year again to everyone. Good luck with your resolutions, next year and anything else you need good wishes for.

Lots of love.