Revolutions

Or something like that.

So, we made it through the holidays.  Through the families, the presents, the well wishes, the slightly inappropriate comments, the drunk uncles, the yelling the screaming and the hugs at the end of the night.  Just like last year and just like next year and it all feels right and like home.  Well, except for that drunk uncle bit. 

So now it's the new year... so it's time to make all those changes in your life that you couldn't do until now.  If you're like me, you start each year with the best of intentions.  Then 4 months from now you realize that you haven't done a single thing you said you were going to and you figure that it's kind of late to start and call it a new YEAR's resolution since it's fully into Spring.  In the Fall, you realize that you MEANT to do all those things once you got through the Summer (because you're just so BUSY in the Summer you know, it's hard enough just to get everything done on those 16 hours of daylight that we get) but you didn't do them and now you may as well wait for the new year since it's almost here anyway.

Or is that just me.

This year I decided to make some of my resolutions public.  They aren't all public because some of them aren't your business.  Like, for example, what if one of my resolutions was to seduce my married next door neighbor?  That would be something that I should keep private.  And just for clarification, that's NOT one of my resolutions... my next door neighbor is a) not really my type and b) gay.  Nor is he married.  He doesn't even have any hot friends.  Of course, now I've digressed again.  And no, greater attention to my own train of thought is NOT a resolution.

So, here we go:

1)  make a budget and stick to it.  If I hope to own a condo/house/cardboard box of my own, I need to start saving the money that I would otherwise be spending on the mortgage.  I've been doing this haphazardly, but it's time to make it "real."  My Dad says that this is very mature which makes me not want to do it at all.

2)  make my bed every day.  BEFORE 5 minutes before I get into it.  Today is January 2.. thus far I have done this never this year.  I'm not really off to that good of a start

3)  stick with my eyebrow program.  Remember that I said that I took care of those furry bits?  Apparently I am a bad eyebrow owner as my new eyebrowist (I don't know what they are called) says that I am now on a program and am not to touch them.  She tells me that I should have the PERFECT EYEBROWS in 3-5 more waxes.  Now I understand why Mrs Farcy, my drunk Social Studies teacher in High School just painted hers on.  At least I think her name was Mrs Farcy

4)  I will have smarter discussions with people.  I think my brain is actually shrinking from lack of use.  So I am going to find some friends/a group of people/strangers on busses that I can have meaningful conversations with without being told that sometimes I'm a boy.  (side note.. why is intelligence associated with men?  Why is it that if a girl wants to talk about planes on treadmills or her opinion on robots that it's not a feminine thing?  I can understand it making me a dork... but a guy??   Anyway, this is probably another post)

5)  take a cooking class.  There is a cooking school very near me and I keep meaning to take a class and this year I'm going to do it.

So, those are the public ones.  I'll let you know how I'm doing along the way.. and if it gets to be April and I pull a "oh shit, my bed hasn't been made in 3 months" then you know what timeline I'm on.

What's YOUR revolution this year?

~C