The time for resolutions is now.
1. Utilize the time I wait for Sam to fall asleep before nap/bed to write pages. Even if it is just the notes section on my phone. Take the great Anne Lamott advice: "Butt in chair. Just do it. You own everything that happened to you. You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart--your stories, visions, memories, songs: your truth, your version of things, in your voice. That is really all you have to offer us, and it's why you were born."
2. Spend one on one time, undivided attention, with the people I love. This list is numerous but begins with: Daniel, Oliver, Sam, Eli, Mom, Dad. So many more but those are the tops.
3. Put the damn phone down.
4. Limit Coca Cola intake to two of the places I love most. Chipotle. And grandma's house. Everywhere else equals water.
5. Walk. It's easy and free and I have no excuse. Could be combined with resolution number two.
6. Read, begin with the beautiful stack of Christmas presents and then get back to the library. Could be combined with resolution number five.
7. Meal plan. Buy the right groceries. Follow the plan.
8. Finish shutter wall in backyard. Attempt other maintenance projects out there too, but know the wall is the only thing that matters (to me).
9. Don't pretend that I intend or care to watch less tv in my life, but let it be an okay byproduct of this list that I might actually reduce my intake.
10. Be an adult and make a budget. Maybe? At least think about budgets and how useful they could be in our life and future. Talk to people I respect about their budgets and use them as peer pressure.
11. Be fucking grateful. In life and on paper. Make lists. Whenever wherever however long, just list my gratitude. Because lists are awesome. And so is being aware of what I've got.
