I have very few regrets from 2010. In fact, I aspire for 2011 to be much like 2010, yet even better. I do, however, have some bullet point items I wish to work into my 2011....
1. Try to watch television. Find a series to get sucked into. So that I will know what the heck my friends are talking about half the time. It appears that I should try to make it Lost. The Wise Turtle recently found all of the episodes on Netflix, and became so addicted that he never went to bed one night watching it. THEN he came home from work early the next day to sleep, but stayed up a while more watching MORE of it...THEN went to sleep, got back up and ate dinner, and started watching it AGAIN, this time getting Boy 8 stuck on it. NOW Boy 8 is sharing with Boy 6.....1-3-11: Holy Shit! Now it's Veggie Tales, and I haven't even seen one episode of Lost yet! I will never be able to keep up with this.
2. Light my candles every day. I don't think I have lit a candle in my house more than five times this past year. It makes all of the difference. I have beautiful mosaic holders and colorful hanging lanterns. If we are having dinner at home, the tea-light candles shall be lit at dusk, and twinkle beautiful colors for us until they burn out. I will have to make tea-lights a stock item on the grocery list now.
3. We are going to start using cloth napkins at every meal. Napkins are not breaking our budget, and I am concerned about the environment, but we use recycled napkins anyway. Cloth napkins make a meal a little more special, and they are easier for the kiddos to hold in their laps because of the weight. Every time I go to my MIL's, she uses cloth napkins, and it feels very special....1-3-11: Have not purchased enough sets of cloth napkins yet, so we were back to the paper ones last night...Josiah, "Please can I have one of the BIG napkins Mom?" = cloth napkins are a go for sure per Josiah.
4. We are going to read EVERY book we own this year. Somehow, we purchase books, then borrow other books from the library and read those because they are due back in two weeks. We squeeze in a book we own here and there, but the ratio of buy to read is like 20:5.
5. Practice, Practice, PRACTICE the piano. Like it's my job. My fingers aren't getting any younger.
6. I am going to keep my jewelry box tidy. I love jewelry. But I have not loved my jewelry enough to put things back in their place when returning it to the jewelry cabinet, hence, things get piled up, hence, things get tangled and are not findable upon demand. I am a sloppy keeper of the jewelry cabinet, and this needs to change.
7. I'm going to sharpen up when it comes to Girl 16. I am a few steps ahead on some things, but she is a clever, conniving little creature and stills dupes me on many things before I recognize and thwart her self-destructive plans. I'm ON IT in 2011, baby girl, COUNT ON IT.
8. Allow nothing but bodies on the couches. If you are caught with any object besides yourself on the couch, you will forevermore sit on the floor. This decided after cleaning the deep, dark, crevices of our couches and turning up:
Coins, Legos, Chewable Vitamins we didn't want to chew so we stuffed them down in the couch when Mom wasn't looking but said we took them, Legos, Seashells, Sharks Tooth, Rhinestones, SD Memory Card, Rubber Bands, Legos, Batteries, Trash, Stickers, Popcorn, Candy, Legos, Army Men Body Parts, Army Man Guns, Legos, Toothpick, Q-tip, Dirt, Dust, Legos, one Kibble, one Bit, one pebble of Meow Mix, and two or three Guinea Pig Nuggets (the ones that go IN, not the ones that come OUT...)
9. I vow to no longer ride my husband's ass about him quitting smoking. I will speak directly to God and the Universe on the matter and trust that it will happen just as well without my stabs at him. Exception: When it imposes on the health of the children or myself.
10. Go out of my way to spend more time with the Mother and the Sister (but not too much...it's all about balance). We have all been meanies to one another, who cares, it's all water under the bridge. I hurt inside wishing for just one more day with my Granny, but she got on my nerves too..... death has a way of erasing the bad and multiplying the good in a person. I have a chance now to prevent regrets. Funny thing, Mom called New Year's Day and said she wants just us, Cass, and my Sister to go out sometime. This is Universe speaking. Do. It.
11. The pictures are going on the walls. Every last damn one of them. I have carried, like, 8 storage boxes full of pictures and frames around with me from house to house to apartment to house, for YEARS, and I can count on one hand how many pictures actually got hung on a wall in each residence. It has been ongoing craziness I tell you, and it stops in 2011.
12. I am going to make an effort to clean house less often. It's generally a waste of time. I'm 39, and I don't have a lot of time left to waste.
It is almost January 3rd, so I should probably post this blog entry already, you know, for accountability. A friend can come into my house, say, in November 2011, and reprimand me..."And just why are there no pictures on your walls Robin???" I will be adding to this list though. My best ideas always come straggling in after the deadline.
13. Crash weight loss is never in the plan. I stay really active with the kiddos hiking and such, and I eat really well, but do not diet. I confirmed how much I have gained since our break from TKD, and it's a whole two pounds. And even though when I asked Husband how much he thought I had gained, he replied, "fifteen pounds", I ain't mad. I feel sexy. I love my little gut, although I will probably never rock the bikini ever again, and I am so okay with that. (*Note: I have found that rocking the bikini at a spray park right after TKD is quite the ego-booster...Turns out, I ain't the sexiest on a grand scale, but I ain't the most repulsive either! Ahhh...that was a good day in 2010...;) It helps that the husband has grown quite the gut in our two years of love. He turns me on even more now than he did before! (I suspect that this is because, the bigger he gets, the skinnier I feel, but that is irrelevant, yes?) If he doesn't say anything about mine, I won't say anything about his. Husband ~ "We are not fat, we are festively plump." I do intend to pick TKD back up as soon as I find a local place that is as good as our Sangrock, because I need to keep my kicks polished in case I am forced to show someone what's up. (I promote peace and love, but my peace and love bar only goes so high on the chart...must be the West G in me.)
14. 1-4-11: Two toboggans and one scarf have been hooked to three of my looms since 2006, because I was insecure about finishing them off correctly. The scarf I haven't touched since I finished the knitting on it sitting in court for one (of my two) assault charges (That's right. It took me about 34 years, but I finally lost my shit...TWICE in one year...2006 was groundbreaking. At this point I would like to give a shout out to David Phillips, Gtown Attorney at Law...can we say expunged? Holla. ;). Breaking News: All three have been removed from the looms and successfully finished off. I'm back to being addicted, and I intend to start more on the looms, but in 2011, I want to knit the REAL way. Not using the looms. My friends were on the looms five years ago, and since I have reconciled, they have far surpassed me, moving on to REAL knitting. I want to knit hoodie sweaters! Blankets! Etc!
15. I'm going to pick a team and become an avid sports fan. Bwahahaha! Just kidding!
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