Happy 2009

You know how they say, "From the frying pan into the fire..."? That's precisely my feelings about 2009. We've all been through and experienced 2008. Can anything be worse than 2008? From where I'm standing, that is, the beginning of 2009, the answer is a resounding 'No' but I can't help feeling that there's more bad news in store in the coming year. Very pessimistic I know and after all we're just at the beginning of the dark tunnel. I'm sure many of us are straining our necks looking for that light at the end of this dark tunnel. Do you see it? Is it there? How long will we see a glimmer of that light? Yes, I know, there are lots of uncertainties. Therefore, I'm not going to dwell on those uncertainties but on the certains. The sure, the true and the tried. What is that?

New Year Resolutions! That's that surest certainty at this time of the year. I thought I'll not make any this year but there are too many uncertainties and too many unpleasantness in 2008 for me not to make any resolutions this year. It's the comforting thought to being around to make them and being healthy enough to make them that really changed my mind.

So, there you have it. Make those New Year resolutions for that comforting thought of just that, being able to make them. To heck with not being able to keep them. To heck that you might break them because for one thing they are meant to be broken. Some of them are just impossible to keep anyway. Be crazy about it. Make outrageous resolutions just for the heck of it. Why? Well, because you can and also you know you won't keep them. It's just for laughs and we know we need plenty of those. So, here I go and some of them are pretty outrageous and some I really do hope I can keep them this year : )

1. Reread all the writing books I have in my bookshelf.
2. Finish reading all the novels I haven't gotten around to read in my bookshelf.
3. Go to bed by midnight the latest.
4. Tidy my room.
5. Resist the clutter monster.
6. Reread all my Writer's Digest Mags.
7. Write 10 minutes every day.
8. Make use of my writing prompts.
9. Check my drawer.
10. Visit my blogs.
11. Spend more time planning vacations : ) (Outrageous I know)
12. Scour the newspapers for bizarre stories to use in my writing. Always forget to note them down after reading about them : (
13. Go through my bookshelf once a month.
14. Screw my head on tightly and in the correct manner.
15. Finish my project assignments before the end of February 2009. (At last a solid, logical resolution)

Will add more later ....

Until my next appointment ... Ciao and Happy New Year and may all your resolutions be as outrageous as mine if not more.