My January Resolutions

With the holidays come and gone and winter break coming to a close, I think I am finally ready to make my resolutions. Any regular reader of my blogs (the few, the proud, and the slightly bored) know that I tend to attempt to make monthly blogs. This is due to my whole attention span of a peanut thing I was telling you about. Just assume that the regular goals are present and accounted for... Be healthy, exercise more, Pray more, read my bible, be a nice person, and I don't know...don't start any major drug dependencies. No I think my January resolutions are going to be more fun. So here goes... please note I am thinking of these as I write them so it is a surprise to all of us.

Hmmmm # 1. Learn to make Pavlova.... This is a traditional and delicious Australian desert made with egg whites that I have come to love... I just got the recipe from my oldest friend, and the wife of a very faithful Aussie. So now I learn to make it.

Let us see #2. Have 2 game nights. One just so I can learn to play Settlers of Katan (I think that is what it is called.) and the second so I can have more people over and they can help me eat my pavlova.

What next #3 Smile more... I have had good things happen lately... I wanna remember that and smile more.

#4 I tend to have this resolution every year and it lasts for about a month... so this year I make it a monthly resolution.... Send more cards. Nothing makes me happier than receiving a card in the mail out of the blue to show me someone was thinking of me. If they are anything like me, it took a lot to get that card mailed. First picking out a card (my favorite part) , then actually filling it out with thought... then getting the address and addressing the envelope, then of course putting a stamp on it... which means buying a stamp, which for me means hunting around to find cool stamps, then actually sticking it in a mail box. Oh the Joy! I want to give some one else this joy.

#5 I wonder how many of these there will be... oh the suspense.... I think 5 will be to cook more.... this accomplishes multiple things... a. I love to cook. B. I have acquired some of the coolest kitchen tools ever in the last few years and would like to use them more. C. This helps with staying healthy and spending less.

#6 Do more fun things... Like in the picture above I spent the day in Seattle with friends and spent less than 20 bucks... this includes Christmas presents, coffee, lunch, and a ferry ride. And I had a blast. We went to an Asian tea shop and had a free tea tasting... we went to the Seattle Art Museum gift shop and just looked at displays in the lobby (that picture is a display representing 9/11 and a car bombing... there are 9 Ford Taurus' being suspended from the ceiling. ) and we just took fun pictures which will be pasted below for viewing... anyway it was fun. I need to have more fun.

#7 I think this is my last one... to keep up on my blog. I still find it therapeutic... but once a month blogging makes them really long.

So there you have it, if you care. See below for fun pictures. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!