Welcome to another installment of what Whitney and I call ‘collective blogging.’  This means that we have each written a blog post on the same topic – but we wrote our posts separately.  Her take may not be the same as mine, and that’s the fun of it!  We got this idea from Melissa and Amy, who have also written collective blogs from time to time.  If you’re interested in reading my past collective blogs, please click here.

Today’s Topic:  New Year’s Resolutions

To read Whitney’s post about New Year’s Resolutions, please visit her blog, My New Chimerical Kit.

I’ll be honest, when Whitney and I first discussed writing about our New Year’s resolutions, I wasn’t sure what I’d write.  It’s been a few years since I truly made a New Year’s Resolution, because I don’t see the point.  I don’t think I know anyone who has kept a resolution like the ones you typically hear about around this time of year.  And I think there’s a reason for that.  New Year’s resolutions are notoriously high-reaching and unrealistic.  “This year I will climb a mountain.”  “This year I will lose 50 pounds.”  “This year I will find love.”  All nice goals, to be sure, but I think most people become overwhelmed by goals like these once the initial anticipation-high wears off.

So I was initially going to write: I have no New Year’s resolutions.  End of post.

But then I started thinking a bit about the coming year, 2010.  I’ve got one VERY big thing happening, with some small things that could happen mixed in.  Perhaps this, I thought, is the kind of year when a person should make New Year’s resolutions.  So, here they are, in no particular order:

Resolution 1: Quit whining and complaining and playing my tiny violin about being unhappy with my body and go do something about it.  Preferably well before June.

Resolution 2: I’m already pretty good about money and saving, but if Alex and I want to buy a house within a year of getting married, I need to become even better about it than I am now.  To that end, I will cook at home more and wait at least 2 days before buying something I don’t actually NEED.

Resolution 3: Relax about the little things more often.  (This one is for you, Alex!)

Resolution 4: Finish my NaNovel.  I mean really finish it.  I haven’t written anything about the Collective NaNovel since NaNoWriMo ended, and there is a reason for that.  My Collective NaNovel sort of turned into a spin-off story from my first NaNovel (written in 2008).  What I’d like to do is put the 2 novels together into 1 story, which I think actually has a lot of potential!

Will I stick to these things?  I hope so.  We are at Day 8 in 2010 and so far I’m doing OK… so stayed tuned!

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