2012

Happy New Year.

I know everyone's reader is going to be clogged with an insane amount of new year posts.

Sorry to be a cliche in the blogging world on this 3rd day of 2012.

I spent a much needed vacation (my one and only of the year, after I canceled my scheduled one to move and start a new job in two weeks...) reading, relaxing and being with dear friends.

After a few days relaxing on my couch and reading,  I headed to Boone, NC with a group of friends to spend time in a mountain cabin consuming delicious chili and wine with great company. 

I spent the new year in a backwoods NC ski resort lodge trapped somewhere in time between 1968 and 1972. But I have to say, the band was incredibly good as was the people watching and I wouldnt have wanted to ring in the new year anywhere else with anyone else. 

 Onto resolutions.

Do you make them?

I get that on top of posting about the new year along with every other blogger, actually making resolutions is another cliche I happen to find myself repeating over and over each year. 

I think it's good to make a list out of goals and resolutions. I have found, as I age (I just wanted to write that clearly for humor) That the key to resolutions is dropping the guilt that is normally associated with failing at them and instead, just trying to stay conscious of what you would like accomplish and set your sites on those things with grace and kindness to yourself. 

Any goal has a better rate of success with grace pushing it forward rather than guilt, right?

So with that said here are my resolutions a la the iphone notepad

And I decided to make a blog goal.

I would really like a new design. I really hate this one. It's just not me. 

So at some point, I want to accomplish that. 

Cheers to the new year.