Well, it's that time of the year again. The first week of January, when you feel like you can actually get things done as you fill out your new calender and planner. As you write (type) your list of things to-do in the blank space, you tend to think, YES, this time around, this IS going to get done. It may be just me, but I like that feeling. 'Resolutions'- as a word, has lost its charm. Yet hopefuls like me love to think that these goals can and will eventually be met. Never mind that in a few days, as one sinks deeper into the year, the whole optimistic feeling gets nudged aside by excuses, about how you meant to, but could not get to!
Why is it that you are always looking for time when it comes to doing chores and never seem to find it, yet there are periods of time when you are bored and cannot think of what to do? Why is that the time when you can return calls is always full of other stuff to do, and when you do find time, it is an awkward time to return that call? I admit that these are the calls that you simply must make, and cannot avoid. The others where you want to call a dear friend always get ahead on the priority list.
I am not even going to get started on the losing weight goal. I know everyone is fed up of reading about those. That is not even a goal anymore, it is just a fleeting dream, of me in some wonderfully fitting shirt with abs as flat as .......ermmmmmm.... never mind!
I want to read more books this year, I want to be able to get back in the form I was in 4 years ago, cooking for ten families at one go. I just don't seem to have the confidence of doing that anymore (the thing is they should want to eat what I cook, so that's my goal).
I want to be able to make some really wonderful jewelery, the kind that you don't feel like selling ever, though I admit I had a couple of pieces like that last year! I want to be able to predict how a particular stone will behave when strung with a particular bead.
I want to be able to get my kiddo to be more independent, will my patience help him in getting to that goal?I know, I know, I don't want to sound like a person with tons of things to do, that never get done. I am pretty much up to date with most of the mundane stuff, except for a lone overdue library book, and maybe some ironing. However, when it comes to some ideas that have been hovering in my head for the longest time, I am really bad. I have this wonderful picture in my head that needs to transfer itself on wood with Plaster of Paris! Will people in 2009 finally see it the way I see it in my head? I have some really great ideas for drawing and painting that I could transfer on paper, will I sit down and let my creative side take over for a bit? Only Time will tell! :)
Why is it that you are always looking for time when it comes to doing chores and never seem to find it, yet there are periods of time when you are bored and cannot think of what to do? Why is that the time when you can return calls is always full of other stuff to do, and when you do find time, it is an awkward time to return that call? I admit that these are the calls that you simply must make, and cannot avoid. The others where you want to call a dear friend always get ahead on the priority list.
I am not even going to get started on the losing weight goal. I know everyone is fed up of reading about those. That is not even a goal anymore, it is just a fleeting dream, of me in some wonderfully fitting shirt with abs as flat as .......ermmmmmm.... never mind!
I want to read more books this year, I want to be able to get back in the form I was in 4 years ago, cooking for ten families at one go. I just don't seem to have the confidence of doing that anymore (the thing is they should want to eat what I cook, so that's my goal).
I want to be able to make some really wonderful jewelery, the kind that you don't feel like selling ever, though I admit I had a couple of pieces like that last year! I want to be able to predict how a particular stone will behave when strung with a particular bead.
I want to be able to get my kiddo to be more independent, will my patience help him in getting to that goal?I know, I know, I don't want to sound like a person with tons of things to do, that never get done. I am pretty much up to date with most of the mundane stuff, except for a lone overdue library book, and maybe some ironing. However, when it comes to some ideas that have been hovering in my head for the longest time, I am really bad. I have this wonderful picture in my head that needs to transfer itself on wood with Plaster of Paris! Will people in 2009 finally see it the way I see it in my head? I have some really great ideas for drawing and painting that I could transfer on paper, will I sit down and let my creative side take over for a bit? Only Time will tell! :)
