Happy New Year 2012!

I love New Years Day!

The newness of the new year - the chance to make a change.  I know I can do it all year long (every day, every hour, every minute) and I take full advantage of it but there's something about turning the page, changing the calendar on my fridge that just makes it FRESH.

This year I want to:

1. Stay focused in my office.  Even if that means taking Facebook out of my "most viewed sites" that gives me quick access.  I'm a time waster and what I could be doing in 3 hours in the morning can take me all day.  
2. Stop biting my nails and (ugh) the skin around them.  I know, it's gross, germy, etc.  Oral fixation, self mutilation - call it what you want.  It's my last bastion of lack of self-control.
3. Finish what I start! That would include my work in progress of knitting items, the pile of my father's "stuff" in the basement now co-mingled with the 20 years of photographs that didn't make it into photo albums that I still feel some need to hang on to and the pictures sitting in IPhoto that need to be printed and make their way into photo albums.  I personally love photo albums and will never just put them in a box by categories or years.  Can't do it.
4. Be a better wife - less critical, lose the need to "be right" with my opinion.
5. Be a more of a "friend" and less of a "mother" to the 10 year old boy I mentor.
6. Wake up each morning with gratitude - not thinking of what needs to be done but thinking about "what a great day this will be"
7. Stay in touch with people I've left along the way.  Hopefully they will feel the same.

If you've been here in the past - I hope you stay.  If you're drifted in from somewhere - I hope you'll come back.