The only thing that makes me twitch more than incessant whining is incessant whining about something that can be controlled. Whine about the weather, whine about your boss' love of singing hamster screen savers, but for the love of my sanity, don't whine about how you're bored or you're hungry or you're too fat or your shirt is ugly or whatever. Just do something about it.
And that is why I don't do New Years resolutions.
I've always been of the opinion that if I wake up one day and think something like, "Self, you eat worse than a goat walking through a landfill after smoking a joint. You really should start eating healthier food," I should probably just go ahead and make that change right away. Waiting until the calendar says it's a good day to start new things is the exact sort of procrastination I just don't need.
And, yet, this year I've been itching to make a list of somethings that might be mistaken for New Years resolutions.
I don't know if the itch is because I'll be turning 35 in a few weeks (O.M.G. ACK!) or if it's because last year really kind of sucked. It might be because this year started off so very perfectly. I dunno. I just know I feel like making a few . . . um . . . let's call them "goals" so I can keep a little bit of my dignity.
- I have GOT to start using my tripod and the remote for my camera more often. (Er, if you, um, maybe read between the lines, I'm saying I need to take more pictures that have me in them. EEK!)
- The playroom. It *IS* going to be fully decorated in the next few months. Hound me on this one, internet.
- Get some stuff hung on the walls all over the house. It's sort of embarrassing how bare many of our walls are.
- Get with the cooking. Before Alexis, I was pretty good about preparing meals filled with fresh and healthy stuff. We were essentially HFCS-free before it was cool to be HFCS-free. And then that whole time suck thing happened and I got lazy. She's independent enough now for me to not use her as an excuse. Besides, I fear that she may think that mashed potatoes come out of a box, and we can't have that.
- I'm working on having more days like this because I know it's up to me to decide to have them.
- Get better at using light effectively in photography.
Not resolutions. Goals. Actually, no, they're promises.
And, hey! I'm off to a good start on a couple of those, thanks to a day with this little one:
(That's Jack's baby brother.)