This year, I made good on 5 out of 8 of my New Year’s Resolutions, which is pretty damn good considering two of them (“write every morning for an hour” and “make a diorama”) are on there every year and I never complete them so they don’t even count. That’s baaaasically 100% victory. Note below that weight loss and not eating tacos weren’t goals; thus, my success.
2011 New Year’s Resolutions:
- Write every day for at least an hour (2012 Me: Psssshhhh)
- Send novel manuscript out again (2012 Me: DID IT! Rejected 5 times! New Record!)
- Finish Thriftfulness book proposal (2012 Me: DID IT! Rejected twice, but once they took awhile so I’m operating under the assumption that they stole my idea and am preparing my “suing” papers)
- Make a diorama (2012 Me: You spent half the year unemployed and you didn’t make a frickin’ diorama? What were you doing???)
- Pack lunch more (2012 Me: SUCCESS! Being unemployed half the year helped)
- Spend more time outside (2012 Me: What did 2011 Me mean by “more”? Does deck drinkin’ count?)
- Continue to garden (2012 Me: ACCOMPLISHED! And I’ve got the pesto breath to prove it)
- Get good sleep (2012 Me: Did I subconsciously know I was about to get laid off?)
Coming off of that kind of success, I feel like I can do anything!!! I’m going to start 2012 off with a silent bang. It will be a bang because I’m going to get a s*&% ton of stuff done. It will be silent because, get ready, I will not be using the Internet.
One of my 2012 Resolutions, beside “wear less burnt orange”, is to go “screen free” for January. That means no Facebook, no Twitter, no TV, no smartphone (I don’t have a smartphone. I like to throw myself bones). Probably, I will become so enlightened that when you check back in with me in February, I’ll have a long grey beard and wear a muumuu with metallic threaded moons and flowers on it and I’ll have decided that something I previously found essential to life is actually useless, like shoes or tacos or Cheers reruns. I might have purchased some kind of moped to drive around on and I’ll start bringing exquisite blades of grass to people who invite me to dinner instead of bottles of wine.You’ll probably be jealous. I just want to prepare you.
So I’ll be somewhere on a park bench reading Walden to the geese all through January. If you miss me you can reflect on some of my older awesome posts and look forward to all that is to come for Thriftfulness in 2012. Liiiike:
- I’m going to make crackers.
- More party themes including a special Valentines Day Party Ideas post.
- My ass is going to Hawaii so look forward to some coconut shell crafts and mai-tai drunken tweets.
- Find out how I learned how babies were made.
- More gifts for kids!
- A Thriftfulness Etsy shop. Could it be? Yes. It could. If your coordination skills could possibly be more off than mine (not likely), than you might not be able to make the crafts I make, so you could buy them instead. If you have more money than me (likely), you could buy them just to be nice.
If you don’t like any of those things, you don’t have to be such a drag about it. Here, I will give you two whole lines from a book that I read this year that I really liked and think about when I think about the new year because these particular quotes are about love and being a spaz and being hopeful. I made a computer picture to illustrate:
From Binnie Kirshenbaum’s An Almost Perfect Moment:
There. Now I’m leaving. Enjoy the Internet SUCKAS!!!
Love,
Annie
