And there are days....
It's an unoriginal post title, apparently, but why not do some recycling? It does good across the board. It's not just for cardboard anymore!
But....I digress.
It's the second day of 2006 already. My how time flies. I will be 36 years old this year, so my list of resolutions has become something more akin to a "To Do" list. We have these books at work, admonishing the reader to do these 100 Things before they die, or see these 1000 Places. I think they have given me a complex of sorts, even though I refuse to open them for fear of finding out how much more I need to get done in the next 40 to 50 years.
So I've made my own little list of things to do in the next year, and it goes thusly:
1) Learn (again) how to knit. My mom tried to show me a couple of years ago, but I put it down for approximately 30 mintues and never figured out how to get started again... My friend Shannon writes endlessly about her newfound love of knitting, and posts pictures of yummy scarves that she apparently whips up in minutes. My mom makes these fabulous little cloths, and equally yummy scarves in addition to full-on afghans. As if I don't have enough half-finished projects laying about the house...I want to KNIT!
2) Go to Sedona/Grand Canyon/Flagstaff. I've lived here just over a year and haven't seen these places? Enough said.
3) Enter a mountain bike race and/or triathlon. Because if I enter, I will *have* to train for it. I'm much to cheap to pay the entry fee and then blow it off. And then there is my pride...
And then there are some other listy things that are not, strictly speaking, resolutions but yet somehow qualify.
1) Buy a road bike. (all the better to train and compete for that triathlon)
2) Buy bike racks. (for storing multitudes of bikes in the garage and for schlepping around said bikes to aforementioned races)
Finally, a serious committment to self-betterment, in the true spirit of resolutions:
Start treating food as fuel instead of a shoulder to cry on or bullhorn to shout about life's injustices. 80% of the time. A girl's gotta have her chocolate, after all....
Happy New Year!
1 comment:
Congratulations on your resolve to be resolute. Many years ago a close friend suggested that I consider his approach to such lists. He had developed the concept of the fantasy checklist. Whenever you decide there is something you want to do, put it on the fantasy checklist.
I bet you are going to ask me the same thing I asked him, "What if I forget what it was?" His response, "It wasn't much of a fantasy. You didn't want/need to do it in the first place." Just a thought.
I lived in the Phoenix area from 1956-1961, and I still haven't seen the Grand Canyon. Sedona is worth the trip. Going to Prescott to see the snow on a Christmas day and then returning to a warm Phoenix was great.
As for the eating as fuel, good idea. I know enough about positive reiforcement to make this suggestion. Dove makes these marvelous little pieces of chocolate called Promise. I prefer the dark variety. After all, they are good for the heart. Reduce the intake of all the "proper" foods and then, to reward such good behavior, take (as in medicine) one Promise after lunch and one Promise after dinner. Only one now. You are being watched.
May love, peace and propserity be with you.
Jack
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