Happy New Year bloggers! I must say I had an incredible New Years Eve this year! I went to Dallas to visit my friend Chris and I was able to meet all of his wonderful friends and some of his family. We had a lot of Mexican food, played some beer pong, and rang in the New Year with a Bang (and I even channeled my inner mexican and wore a sombrero)! The New year has approached us...Its 2010!!! It got me thinking about what I want to focus on for the new year. Who do I want to be this year? How do I want to live my life and make changes necessary to live life to the fullest? Here are some of the resolutions I have come up with...
Chris and I
1. I resolve that I will get into the BEST shape I have ever been in---Gotta work on that fitness!
2. I resolve to drink more. Wasn't it Benjamin Franklin who said, "beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." So I pledge to be really f'ing happy. That Benjamin Franklin was a wise, wise man.
3. I resolve that I will try to be more considerate of other people's feelings. That means Ill stop yelling long enough to actually listen to what the hell they are saying.
4. I resolve that I will try to stop eatting medicine just because it looks like candy. (Kidding mom)
5. I resolve that I will quit using the word "F***" so much. Its my fav curse word and I do believe it will be incredibly difficult to break that habit considering it is the most versatile word in the English language.
6. I resolve that I will no longer waste my time relieving the past, instead I will spend it worrying about the future.
7. I resolve I will do less laundry and use more deodorant. (hey itll save more water too cause I am also resolving to be more GREEN)
8.I resolve to roundhouse kick open every door possible. You know channel my inner Chuch Norris?
9. I resolve to be a better human being this year, and that includes trying to remember the names of people I have just been introduced to. It also includes trying to remember the names of people I already know.
10. I resolve to eat more waffles, even though this resolution is in direct conflict with my most important resolution of the New Year, which is to get back in shape but damn! Waffles are amazing. And when I'm dying, I don't want to regret not having eaten more of them. Cause I f'in love me some waffles.
11. I resolve that I will be in love again. Maybe not right this minute but hopefully sooner rather than later.
12. I resolve to write a blog about those incredibly irritating little stickers that are stuck to the fruit and tell the cash register at the grocery store whether you are buying Fuji apples for $1.29 a pound or Gala apples for $1.29 a pound.
14. I resolve to try and be a better person on the inside as well as on the outside.***
I want to focus on becoming a better person. Whether it be health wise, life wise or anything else wise I will work on it. Whatever you chose to work on last year carries over to this new year, try to keep your promises. Follow thru with your resolutions! It will make you feel better about yourself and ultiamtely lead to one heck of a 2010. If you need some suggestions here are a few that came to me while writing this lovely blog:
Some of us could work on being more honest.
Some of us could work on being more kind.
Some of us could work on not hiding our emotions.
Some of us could work on becoming less angry.
Some of us could work on becoming better listeners.
Some of us could workon facing our fears.
Some of us could work on remembering to say thank you.
Some of us could work on trusting our loved ones.
Some of us could work on having more faith.
Some of us could work on detoxifying our environment.
Some of us could work on detoxifying our minds.
Some of us could work on monitoring our diets.
Some of us could work on strengthening our discipline.
Some of us could work on broadening our skills.
Some of us could work on learning new languages.
Some of us could work on becoming better parents.
Some of us could work on becoming better friends.
Some of us could work on remembering our dreams.
Some of us could work on forgiving the past.
Some of us could work on strengthening our bodies.
Some of us could work on sharing and giving back.
Some of us could work on taking on greater responsibility.
As a result of all of the work that has been done quietly in our individual lives, we have collectively contributed to the blossoming understanding and simplest expression of what God is. God is our good, and even the good we do for our self counts. Each fully blossomed flower on the hillside of our destiny adds to the broadened spectrum of our being. And together, we create more than beauty, more than fate; we evolve the depth and scope of the All-Seeing.
We may never see it reported through the media, but there is more good happening in this world than evil. There are more children smiling in this moment than any single one of us could fathom… and someone just fell in love, and someone just helped a stranger, and someone just scored a goal, and someone got their hearing back, and someone's joking with their co-worker, and someone's sitting in the kitchen, while the rest of the household sleeps, writing a poem.
I am lucky enough to have lived this long and celebrate the New Year but I give thanks for all of the good that has gone unrewarded, for every kind word, action, or deed. Today, I gave thanks for the God that is within each and every one of you, that is us, when we claim who we are.
Happy blogging all...And a have a Happy New year however you choose to spend it.
