The new year and resolutions…

January 1, 2019 Patricia24 Comments

Happy New Year! catplaidhat

New Year Resolutions?
Nope.
None for me!

I have made resolutions in the past. I don’t remember what they were but I do remember that I didn’t keep them. So, now I just don’t make them so I don’t feel bad at the end of the year when I realize that I am a resolution failure.

That’s all I have to say on the subject!
Now on to other stuff.

I do reflect on the year gone by.
This year there are things I am happy about
and some things not so much.

Happy stuff…

time spent with friends
lots of time to read…76 books read in 2018
going to bed late and sleeping til nine or ten
started keeping a journal
organizing closets
finishing the kitchen…except for crown molding

Not so happy stuff

didn’t get the living room painted
decluttering still a work in progress
falling behind in all things blog related

About the blogs…I have been neglecting most everything blog related.

I apologize to all who have participated in the In Other Words challenge for not spending time with you. I do appreciate your writing and linking your poems and stories. Please forgive me.
I have also been negligent in responding to comments in general. I have no excuse. I just have not been making good use of my time when it comes to the computer.
I have not been to visit blogs I follow, and I am sorry. Again no excuse.
The most recent blogs were written in November and scheduled for December with the plan to update as the month progressed. Just didn’t happen.

One thing I have found in retirement is that the less you have to do the less you do. When I worked I made myself get other things done. In retirement, I tell myself I will do whatever needs to be done later. Of course, later never comes it just gets put on tomorrow’s to-do list.

Maybe I do have one resolution…
GET IT DONE!

Quotes and Questions, 2018 #1

January 6, 2018January 2, 2018 Patricia2 Comments

Q&Q

“Now there are more overweight people in America than average weight people. So now overweight people are average. Which means you’ve met your New Year’s resolution.”
Jay Leno

I think this bad news is good to hear.
It is nice to keep a resolution.

What do you think?

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New Year’s resolution…

January 1, 2018 Patricia18 Comments

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Happy New Year
2018

“Let our New Year’s resolution be this:
We will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity,
in the finest sense of the word.”
Goran Persson

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Saturday, resolve…

January 1, 2011May 12, 2011 Patricia4 Comments

Today is the first day of the New Year, 2011.

As I reflect on last year my first thoughts are that it was just another year. No mountain tops and no deep pits. No real forward motion but no slipping back, just holding steady. The only thing that stands out is the death of my cat. Other than that there is nothing about 2010 that had any lasting impression on me.

But with further thought I realize I am more content and at peace with the world and myself than ever before. That alone makes last year one worth keeping in a treasure chest marked “Remember”.

Being content and at peace with the world and self does not come with trumpets and parades and loud hurrahs. It slips in quietly, unnoticed and unheralded, and takes up residence without a fuss.

How awesome is that?!

I don’t make New Year’s Resolutions but if I did I would resolve to more readily recognize the grace of contentment and peace that blesses my life.

Who, on earth, knows what 2011 will bring? What I do know is that I will keep my “Remember” treasure chest close at hand. And I will keep my heart open to all the grace and blessings of contentment and peace that is yet to be revealed .