RESOLUTIONS

So to kick of the New Year, to develop fresh habits, to enjoy the fresh new page of life before me, I have decided to keep a blog. I bet loads of people start blogs in January and probably give them up by February. I know I did a few years back! But I hope that this year is different. I hope that I have grown a little, know better now. I want to finish what I start. I want to be writing a Christmas blog, or even a birthday blog. I want to be looking back this time next year and saying, boy blog is one year old! I want to have recorded all the amazing quirky things that will happen to me this coming year. I want to do this!

So as this is the blog to kick off the New Year, I might as well start with my resolutions. What am I promising to do this year? Hmmm… Let's start with the little things.

1. Read my bible and pray EVERY DAY.
   

For a person who loves to read, this has proven harder than usual. I don't know what it is about the bible. I think it's a mind thing. I wish I could find a copy of the book that was not divided into verses but instead laid out like a normal book, a novel if you will, with just books and chapters. That would make it easier reading. It would be like going through a novel. No problem. Maybe I should look harder for a verseless bible. In the right translation too. Because if it's in the King James Version, it might still be hard reading…. Actually maybe not. I like period writing. The Thous and saiths might help me get into the characters of the Old Testament, provide a certain authenticity to the time period.

1. Go to the gym at least twice a week.
   

I have at least six workout videos that I bought about two years ago. Three still have plastic wrapping around them! (Yeah, I just looked.) Obviously, the working out at home route is not for me. And despite being a member of a gym for a while, I'm still overwhelmed by all the machines. So it's the classes that really do it for me. If I can just keep at my Monday-Wednesday-Friday class schedule, I think I'll be fine. I am not going to try and kill myself. I just need something that gets my heart pumping and my blood running. Then maybe if I can get a stretch and some sit-ups in everyday, I can possibly definitely have chiseled abs by this time next year.

1. Sing in the shower
   

I applied to join the choir at my Church. The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir. While I know I can make a damn good joyful noise to the Lord, the jury's still out on whether or not I can sing. When you sing out loud, it does something to you. It lightens your heart. It makes your spirit soar. It makes you happy. I am going to sing out loud in the shower every time. Never done that before. I hum sometimes, but never actually give the pipes a good run. From now on, I'm going to give the pipes a really good run. J

1. Hmm…
   

I can't think of anything else. Isn't that sad?! There is so much in my life that I'm unhappy with and would like to change, but right now I can't think of a single thing to add to my 2010 must-do- list. I guess I can add things as I go along, right? Right. I guess these are the things I really want to get done this year. There are loads of others like to remind myself every day that God loves me, to tell a joke and consciously smile at a stranger. Then there are things on my List – things I would love to get out of the way: take that trip to Europe, drive across America with a bunch of friends, that sort of thing.

I have really high hopes for this year. This is the year that all my financial woes end. The year that ALL my woes end. This is the year I stop waiting for things to happen to me, this is the year they all happen, the year everything happens. I didn't hold a lot out for 2009 when it rolled in. 2009 was the year of transition for me. I was getting over and getting on with my life. I was growing roots, finding myself. But this year, 2010 is the year of my harvest. This is my year. This is it!