Just like Thirty-something, I made those resolutions to lose weight…keep up with laundry…save money. I’d spend all of January meticulously eating rabbit food and working out at the buttcrack of dawn, doing load upon load of laundry, watching every penny I spend. Then mid-February rolls around, and I’m eating McDonald’s on my piles of laundry with $3 in the bank. As soon as I attach the word “resolution” to something, just like Thirty pointed out, it fails. It must be magic. Hmm…so maybe this year I should resolve to gain about 30 lbs., drown in laundry, and spend every penny I own. No, or maybe this year I’ll just make anti-resolutions: “Anti-Resolutions are the little things that make life worth living. Take a moment to stop and look around … there are amazing things happening daily that we don’t even notice anymore because everyday life weighs us down.”
In no particular order…
1. Laughing with my sweetie-peetie husband.
2. Snuggling on the couch in a down blanket with my puppy-butts.
3. Taking my darling puppy-butts to the park and watching them sniff everything.
4. A pair of super-warm socks when our house is freezing.
5. Lindt chocolates, hot chocolate with whipped cream, or really any chocolate.
6. Starbucks peppermint mochas on Monday mornings.
7. Snow days…laying in bed under the covers watching it snow.
8. Beginning a really good book…and re-reading it after it’s finished.
9. Finding that pair of jeans that fits just right.
10. Making dinner–a real dinner where I have to cut up veggies and everything–and watching Shoo enjoy it.
11. Kids who really want to learn, or those who maybe don’t want to learn so much, but try anyway.
12. Family, including my new family, get togethers.
I love them, GTG! I forgot all about Lintz chocolates or I would’ve included them myself. Happy New Year to you and your furry little loved ones!
I like it! I like it! Rather than trying to make resolutions which don’t always work; look at life from a positive perspective, more along the lines of counting your blessings.
I too have done something similar having recently read “Tuesdays with Morrie”, in it there are a number of short phrases referencing to one’s personal principles; he would quote bite-size philosophies on life also known as aphorisms even though small they’re profound.
Considering it’s the start of a new year, I took to heart to remember a few which I thought poignant.
Accept the past as past without denying it or discarding it.”
“Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do.”
“Love each other or perish”
Death ends a life, not a relationship”
I also have a poem which I keep which is
The clock of life is wound but once and no man has the power
To tell just when the hands will stop, at late or early hour.
To lose one’s wealth is sad indeed, to lose one’s health is more,
To lose one’s soul is such a loss that no man can restore.
The present only is our own, so live, love, toil with a will,
Place no faith in tomorrow — for the clock may then be still.
This year I resolve to create world peace, end world hunger and climb mount everest. I can do it. I have 12 months for pete’s sake.