I’m in the Christmas Spirit. Don’t get me wrong but Christmas is quickly approaching and all the planning that I had dreamed about is passing me by. The list I had made for gifts and cookies I was going to bake is getting longer and longer. I’m slowly chipping away at it. I’ve found that keeping Christmas shows on while I am baking seems to lighten the load of cookie dough all over the kitchen.(I actually enjoy cooking rather than baking)
Each January I get a new calendar, start a diet, try to learn a new computer program and make all the New Year resolutions that most of us try for.
This year I am starting my New Years List early. I am not waiting until the day of New Years to make the list. My New Years Eve is usually the same each year, snacks with the family and later when everyone is asleep I watch “the Ref” starring Denis Leary.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSjvTyGG45k&feature=related
On New Years Day I make the list and I dread writing all the things that I should be doing correctly during the year. Start a diet, that by February will be on shaky ground. That’s around the time the swimsuits come out on the racks and I’ll get pretty discouraged and go home and eat a dish of pasta.
This year I started the list already. I’ve changed the list to eating more vegetables, limiting fast foods , a lot more fish and no more diet sodas. You know that coffee will remain on each and every list but I can live without the sodas that only make me more thirsty.
Since I enjoy writing I’m going to add to the list, finish my novel which I have been working on for a few years now.
One more thing, redo my address book.
Making the list now has made New Years a little less intimidating. Hope this helps me and all of us that are dreading that list each New Years day . The lists usually include things like, go on a diet, learn to surf,etc. Just do it now and enjoy New Years day, just remember to eat more vegetables.
