Ah, The Smell of a Clean, Fresh Year

2007...it has a good ring to it, don't you think? I predict many good things will happen this year. Or at least I hope many good things will happen this year. And, here comes my pessimism, right on cue. My good friend, Laurie, seems to be a big believer in self-fulfilling prophecies; she's always telling me that if I think nothing good is going to happen, then nothing good will happen. (I have to gratefully admit that my life thus far has been pretty darn good, despite my rather pessimistic persona, but there are areas in my life that could stand to improve a little.) On the other hand, in talking with Laurie, I've discovered that we also share the odd belief that if we're too optimistic about something, we'll jinx it. (We're very complex ladies.) So, I suppose that's one of my resolutions: be more positive and feel deserving and open to good things happening to us (but, of course, not too positive to the point where I'm expectant of said good things because that's just setting myself up for failure). Anyway, there are several important goals we've made for the year, but we'll keep those to ourselves so as not to jinx the year!

Smaller, and hopefully easier to accomplish, resolutions for myself include, but are not limited to: cleaning and reorganizing the office (AGAIN); exercising (notice I didn't say "exercise more" because I currently don't exercise at all; therefore, if I can even manage 1 sit-up a day, I can mark this one as accomplished); having friends and family over more often (because, hey, I get lonely sometimes!); finding some really good vegetarian recipes out there to keep me on the wagon (it's been a year, but fried chicken and Wendy's burgers are still calling my name); actually having some money saved by the end of the year (even if it's just a few bucks!); flossing my teeth every single night (I'm known to skip a day or two, and don't say "gross" because I know you do the exact same thing); find a church or churches to possibly attend (which will be interesting, considering neither of us have attended in forever, and Stephen is Catholic whereas I am not).

Anyway, cheers to a happy new year and lots of half-assed attempts to better ourselves! (Damn, there goes my positive attitude out the window, again.)