.........counting down to 2010

Looking back, I didn’t have any epic fails concerning my resolutions for 2009 except for leaving the country. Didn’t make it out of the States. Hmmmm, maybe I’m more of a homebody than I thought! The writing went well, though I didn't finish the new mystery. I entered a writing contest, worked hard and polished several short stories as well as having a good outline for the new mystery. We did a lot more entertaining than in years past and loved it. I worked on my own hooked rug patterns and found that doing so frees the mind to think and juggle ideas and find better ways to express what I want in my writing. Still, the biggest thing to happen this year was the change in my thinking because of my emergency appendectomy. I might not have done the writing or anything else if I hadn’t finally realized how much I want to do and how little freaking time there might be in which to do it. I’m not in a position to give up work, and I actually love what I do, but I did turn down additional work at the end of the year. I made the decision to work less and write more, work less and entertain more, work less and live more.

For 2010, I’m going to blend resolutions with the determination to take the time to do what I need to do. Not make the time or find the time, but take it.

Finish the new mystery
Send out the old mystery (thanks, Em, for the kick in the pants about this).
Create a new hooked rug to enter into the 2011 KIA community art show.
Actually use the Wii fitness stuff.
Send out the short stories to find their way and place in the world.
Entertain more.
Go to a writers’ conference.

To quote Rainer Maria Rilke, “And now let us welcome the New Year, full of things that have never been.”