HAPPY 2008!
Nothing brings in the New Year quite like organized delinquency.
(In GA, they keep us grounded- no airborne explosives)
(Fisher not pictured as he was irritable/konked out)
Welcome 2008!
New Year's Eve: Quality Control
Logan joined me on the Volunteer Quality Control team. We tested all of the goodies for the night's festivites for "poison"
(it was all tainted- we made the sacrifice of disposing of it for the good of the whole family)
RESOLVED
This week, my thoughts were aimed at the coming "blank slate" that is the New Year and subsequently those notorious "resolutions" we are all so fond of making (then breaking!)
While definition #1 is the general thought behind New Year's resolving, I rather like definition #10 "MUSIC- to cause to progress from dissonance (or disharmony) into consonance (harmony)"
In 2008, that is what I'd like to accomplish with my own life song. And I'd kind of like a little bit of #9 mixed in there too- to be able to divide something into separate, yet active parts- sounds like better organization to me...school from work, work from play, got to from want to, etc
I started to pen a list the other day while we were traveling- it is still lost in luggage land- so until it is unearthed, I share from my very rusty memory (in an effort to hold myself publicly accountable) --((ha!))--
2008 Regret -Less Living
(or Less Regret Living)
- Wake up earlier...aim for 5 AM regularly by March 31 (if you can't laugh to yourself, you may leave!)
- Increased interaction with kids as a parent and teacher...30 minutes one-on-one time, per day, per child, minimum
- Lose that last 10 (15?)/eat the way I know I'm s'posed to
- Walk 3 times a day...aim for 5 miles regularly by March 31
- Re-Schedule home school-stick to it like glue
- Commit to certain forms of organization like bad religion
- Memorize scripture regularly and with purpose...aim for one verse per week by March 31
- Learn something new- Daily
- Keep a journal/Blog with purpose
- Write real letters...aim for one per month
- Find a church, settle into it, get busy, keep mouth shut, learn to trust the Right One on this
- Be a better friend to my spouse
- Take a class- make it count for some real goal
- Figure out real goals
- Let go of certain ghosts- people & circumstances. (TBA @ a later date)
- Continue to pursue "good stuff", "research" forgiveness and look for opportunities to be Hands & Feet
- Stop plucking things so vehemently (hair, eyelashes, lint)
- Minimize Sailor's Tongue Disease
- Launch SoHo (TBA @ a later date)
- Spend Less Money
- Create more Everything ( except Children!)
Ah! well, that seems like enough to keep me busy for awhile. Will keep you updated as to how miserably I fail ( perhaps this is best posted over at FaltLife?)
Auld Lang Syne, Ya'll!
Happy 2008!
*Click here for rousing hymn currently stuck in Kelly's head
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