Resolved

I'm not the most social person ever.  Most times, I would prefer to stay home with my book rather than venture out with a group of friends.  For the most part, I've been generally okay with being a hermit.

As much as I have been enjoying my own company, I realize that having a full and well-rounded life means having experiences and adventures, and some of the best experiences and adventures are those that are shared with others.

I have resolved to build better relationships with people who are not my family and boyfriend.  I would like to think that I have established fairly good relationships with them, and I need to work on my friendships.

As I mentioned previously, I want to flesh out this resolution to make it more specific so it easier to follow and accomplish.

I have resolved that I will hang out with a friend once a week.

It sounds small, doesn't it?  But I think I'm off to a great start, and I'm looking forward to building better friendships with my new Maui friends, and I hope to open doors to more exciting adventures.

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Resolutions

Last year, I posted a few resolutions:

1) drink more Green Tea
2) drink less Diet Coke
3) write more
4) do more pull-ups

I didn't do so great on drinking Green Tea specifically, but I fell in love with Tejava, an organic, bottled Black tea which is oh so good and refreshing.  I became a diehard Tejava fan when I kicked my Diet Coke habit.

That's right, I did a great job on drinking less Diet Coke.  I went cold turkey for about a month, maybe more, and now I don't crave it as I used to.  I still drink it every once in awhile, but it's not something I need to have every day.

As for the writing resolution...I didn't do so great.  I wrote on the blog and wrote in my own journal, but nowhere else.

Although 2011 was a lazy writing year, I know that 2012 is going to be a great launching point for writing more.  I've done some networking with restaurant coworkers who have their own businesses and need some assistance in creating prose for their websites to help advertise their great work.  I'm thrilled for the opportunity, and I've done a huge amount of brainstorming.  It's always fun collaborating, and I'm looking forward to starting these new projects.

Of course, I'm hoping that working on other people's personal projects will help inspire me to do creative stuff of my own.

As for those pull-ups...yeah, that didn't really happen.  But I'm really happy with my overall improvements in my fitness, even if I can't do more than 3 pull-ups at a go.

I haven't hammered down my resolutions for this year.  I am looking for resolutions that are simple, obtainable and measurable.  I find that most resolutions I make are a little vague, so this year I plan on being a little more specific so I know exactly when I've achieved my 2012 resolutions.

Expect those to be posted within the next few days.

What resolutions have the rest of you come up with?  Or are you skipping making resolutions for 2012?  It may be an exercise in futility considering that the Mayans predicted that the world was going to end...

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Happy New Year

I'm never ashamed to repeat myself, especially when it's to share something this good.  Just in time for the New Year, I will once again post Neil Gaiman's New Year's wishes:

May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art – write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. May your coming year be a wonderful thing in which you dream both dangerously and outrageously.

I hope you will make something that didn’t exist before you made it, that you will be loved and you will be liked and you will have people to love and to like in return. And most importantly, because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now – I hope that you will, when you need to, be wise and that you will always be kind. And I hope that somewhere in the next year you surprise yourself.

Wishing you all the best in 2012.  Cheers, Paige

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