Okay, I admit it. I’ve never been very good at the making or keeping of New Year’s Resolutions. While I almost always have the best of intentions, one of three things usually happens:

A.) January 1st rolls around, and, being in the grip of my semiannual winter cold and convinced I won’t live to see the first bloom of Spring, I renounce the making of resolutions as a luxury reserved for those who don’t have one foot in the grave.   By the time I recover, I’m so relieved that I’m not going to die that I forget all about resolutions.

B.) Having in the previous year come up with all manner of excellent resolutions for the betterment of myself and the world around me, and with every intention of implementing them first thing on New Year’s Day, I somehow manage to forget all about them and not recall them again until a week after Easter.

C.) Having neither forgotten nor been too sick to make them, I happily and with a profound sense of accomplishment set about implementing all of my brand new resolutions. This lasts until about March, when most, if not all, have been labeled “impractical” and are abandoned.

Given this less than impressive track record, one might think that I’d give up on this whole business of making New Year’s Resolutions, that I’d direct my energies in more fruitful directions.  One would be wrong.  :-)

Maybe I’m just hard-headed (I could probably produce some witnesses to testify to that effect), but I prefer to think of myself as an optimist.  Either way, here, for your consideration, are my New Year’s Resolutions for 2010:

  • Blog more often.  I started blogging on xanga almost four years ago, but have fallen away from it in recent months (due in part to some really gross and inappropriate stuff starting to show up on xanga’s front page).  My goal is to write a new post at least once a week (maybe every two weeks, during busier months).  This new wordpress blog is my first effort in that direction.
  • Read 50 books.  This is a goal I’ve set myself for the last two years, and it’s one of my favorites.  Among others, I’m hoping to read more Gene Stratton-Porter, and to finish the works Jane Austen.
  • Spend more time in the Bible.  I hate to admit it, but my Bible reading in recent months (years?) has been sporadic at best.  My goal is to read at least one chapter a day, preferably more.   I’ve been at this since January 1st, and it’s already become an essential part of my day.  I really, really wish I’d started this one sooner.  (Also, I’m debating about whether or not to count the books of the Bible toward my 50 book goal.  Hmm…)
  • Read through C.S. Lewis’s George MacDonald Anthology.  I’ve been taking a passage out of this every morning after my Bible reading and a devotion from My Utmost for His Highest.  Seriously, it’s the best time of the day.
  • Learn to use my spiffy new camera.  Last year I bought myself a very nice Digital SLR camera from a very nice Canadian camera store (thank you, eBay!).  Now it would be very nice to learn how to use some of the settings beside “automatic”.  :-)
  • Watch less news.  By news, I mostly mean political news.  It stresses me out, makes me cranky and/or depressed, and frankly, I’m sick of it.
  • Watch less TV.  I watch too much tv.  Way too much.  Besides, less tv means more time spent with a book…or listening to music…or walking around in the sunshine.  Yes, much less tv.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, there are only 341 days left in this year, and as you can see, I have a lot to do. 

:-)

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p.s.  I’m sure that there are some people who will say that January 24 is far too late to be writing a post about New Year’s Resolutions.  I’ve decided that those people are mistaken.  ;-)

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