Second Tries

Okay, so it's New Year's time (a little late), but it's always a good time to start new resolutions. I thought I had set my resolutions a month ago. I figured out a couple of goals I wanted to work on and wrote them down. Wrote down a whole plan of what I wanted to do and how I was going to get there. And then, I dunno, life happens -- starting New Year's Day.

My first resolution for 2011 was to have, and follow, a 'nighttime routine'. This included: preparing lunch for the next day, reading for 15 minutes, and going to bed at a specific time (my family says I'm grouchy when I don't get enough sleep, so this resolution was supposed to appease all). My very first night (after all the partying on new year's), my sister calls at 1 AM to say that her car has broken down and she needs me to drive three hours away to come pick her up.

I still could've had my routine the next day. I could have tried again the day after. But I didn't. One little thing out of place and the whole plan goes down the drain. See, right now, as I'm writing this it is two hours past my 'nighttime routine' goal. And heaven knows I could use more sleep.

The point is, back in May I had decided to start this blog, with the intention that I would occasionally write - maybe three or four times a month. It didn't happen. I don't know exactly where it went wrong (perhaps the vague timeline for posts had something to do with it), or what the misstep was that lead to me forgetting the name of the blog, but this is what the New Year is really all about. It's a time to remember what we want from life and recommit to making things better.

Here's to a new Year. Hope it's a good one.