New Year Thoughts

There have been so many things I have been pondering on during this season.

This year, while infinitely better than the last, has been a slow one for us. Or for me. The best way I can put it is that I have been slowly retreating into my cave of old acquaintances, old friends, fluffing myself with memories from the past and putting on layers & layers of insulation (both metaphorically & literally) against new experiences & new people. It's like I took a sabbatical from life, holding on, rather violently, to the past - both the glories & the nadir of it ALL.


Here were my Resolutions 2009

1. Weight - this is two folds
1. By August 15, lose 30 pounds.
2. By December 30, lose another 20 pounds,
2. Run a 10 K
3. Observe the Lent
4. Begin work on my food blog
5. By August 15, I will make head way on the rsch I was supposed to write
1. Head way = fleshing out the outline, deciding on the chapters, writing out half the chapters
6. By October, make sure our immigration stuff is taken care of

Resolutions 2009 I kept

1. ah, no!
2. walked/ran a 5k but pschew!, I am so far behind now that I am apprehensive about even attempting to do the training program but again, never mind - Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
3. Done!!!
4. Done but now sadly waylaid
5. not done & completely ignored
6. Done & doing
Kept unwritten resos like sending out Christmas cards (first ever!) & being nicer to the boy

Resolutions 2010

• To try, try and try to Not stay in my corner of the forest, waiting for opportunities, people & life to come to me, to the point that I go to bed exhausted from trying to not stay in my corner
• To surround myself with more beauty
• To be more tolerant of others
• Edited to add on Jan 24 : To use the word 'whilst' instead of 'while' because really, whilst just sounds more pretty, doesn't it?

Like Sita says, that's all.

Have a brilliant New Year all!!!