Status of New Year Resolutions

So far I'm keeping three of six resolutions, what you ask, you only listed five? Yea, let's talk about that...I forgot to write one down. Doh! The missing resolution has to do with Boo and I doing something new / different each month.

It can be as simple as dining at a restaurant that we've passed multiple times and muttered our intention to eat there someday or trying a new adventure / getaway. We have done two new things this month, in addition to me reading the Bible daily and spending more time with my mom.

So basically I'm at 50% in keeping my resolutions. Not a figure to brag about this is certain, it can equally be said that three weeks into the new year I have a 50% failure rate! I choose to be a glass is half full type of gal so I'm going with the success rate.

Did you make any resolutions? What's your success rate?

You've Got Mail!

I spent the day with my mom and had a great time. We didn't do anything special or different, we dined together, ran errands and did grocery shopping all things that made me very appreciative to have my mom in my life to do these things with.

We watched the film You've Got Mail on the 'E' cable channel and I was reminded of my father-in-law, the only person in my life who used and loved AOL. The man loved hearing three words: You've Got Mail.

Without fail each visit resulted in me repairing his OS, fixing something awry with AOL, reinstalling AOL or uninstalling AO-Hell after an automatic update that wasn't ready for the wild or updating drivers.

The one consistent thing my FIL and I shared was his love and addiction to AOL and my ability to keep his addiction operating smoothly. It might take me an hour or two each visit to get things working again but I never failed him.

He's departed earth for almost four years this February and as much as his AOL-related tech support taxed me and made me nuts, I now reminisce with very fond memories.

Happy New Year!

So 2010's arrived and it sounds so Sci-Fi to me, like I'm not living it but reading about it in a book. I can't believe it's 2010 and I'm living it. It's surreal.

So after last night's celebration and preparing to celebrate with family today, I started thinking about the good old New Year Resolutions. Admittedly I try not to make any because, like most people, I don't keep them.

I've managed to successfully keep one resolution which is to read the Bible daily. I've actually done this several years in a row and then in 2009 I took a break to see how knowledge of the Bible's teachings influenced my life. Had I retained anything? Or, was I simply performing the task of rote reading without learning anything?

I discovered I'd retained many lessons from the Bible and realized that I missed reading it daily. I felt empty.  Disconnected.  Lonely. I can't explain why I felt this way only that I did and I found myself wanting to read the Bible mid-summer.

So I surprised myself when I easily came up with five resolutions:

1. Lose weight


2. Read the Bible daily


3. Spend more time with my mother. Maybe start a new tradition of Sunday dinner.


4. Take a photo a day


5. Learn to play Mahjong (I own two sets and have not learned how to play!)

Let's see how I fair!