Resolutions

I'm a list person, so the idea of New Year's resolutions always appeals to me. And, I know January 3 isn't really the "right" time to make a post about New Year's resolutions, but I have been out in the Wild West, without Internet, for the last week and a half, so January 3 it is. Besides that, I tend to start my resolutions when I think of them (even if it's in November or March), so this is pretty much just a formality.

Last year, I only had one item on my list, but it was enough to keep me busy all year: Do hard things. So here are some of the things that fit under that category for me in 2012.

• Began a running program
• Took a job that required me to be a "Chief" and not just an "Indian"
• Took another job, tutoring a class I had never tutored before and which included a math component, of all things.
• Prepared to teach a training course for adults 
• Faced my own mortality--on paper, as we worked on our wills, and in real life, following my little fainting trick
• Stopped the running program
• Re-started the running program
• Made a permanent decision about having (or, I guess, not having) more babies
• Read Victor Hugo's Hunchback of Notre Dame

This year, I'm going with more of a traditional list:

• Try new things
• Be emotionally invested in people and activities
• Seek new friendships/improve existing ones
• Write something every day
• Spend more time reading the Bible and praying
• Learn to drive the Infiniti (a standard)
• Drink more water

Happy 2013, everyone! I hope it is your best year yet!