Happy New Year everyone! I know this message is coming a bit late considering the new year has been present for about 20 days now, but I’ve taken one of those long breaks from posting to accommodate for the holidays, family time, and life in general. I’ve even eased up on tweeting! This disconnect from the Net and social media is disconcerting at times, but sometimes necessary, especially when special attention needs to be paid to life outside the computer.
It’s a new year and new start though and I recently renewed my ownership of MiaHerrera.com (with hosting! Though I still need to code the site beyond the basic blog template), so I’m dedicated to another year or two of infrequent posting for anyone who is interested (a small number, in fact, that more often visits my site for my MonopolyCity and Felicia Day posts).
I entered this year without any intention of creating resolutions. I’ve made resolutions every other year, but I’d like to believe that change can happen at any time – not just on the first of January. As the year drew to a close, however, I discovered an unintentional list of resolutions that continually grew. By the time the clock struck midnight on January 1st, my list of resolutions included Continuing Education and French language courses, more time in church, more time on the treadmill, and more time by the stove learning how to cook.
As 2012 began, however, life brought along many surprise and blessings. I put a down payment on a house (move in date September 2012), ruling out further courses due to the need to save money at the moment, and my love of chocolate and proneness to accidents threw a few wrenches on my road of progress towards cooking, eating, and living healthily.
If this year has taught me anything so far, it’s that everything truly does happen for a reason. Like that cliché quote says, sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. I naturally love to plan and when plans wouldn’t work out, I’d feel lost as I scrambled to create another plan for the changed situation. This isn’t a bad thing but, these days, going with the flow has been really nice.
This year, I’ll adapt. I’ll purchase Rosetta Stone instead of attend Alliance Francaise or keep active but try not to beat myself up when I slip up. I’ve always striven to do absolutely everything before, that life sometimes became too hectic to do anything at all. I’ve decided to choose what’s important and focus on it accordingly. By the second week of January I already knew I needed to parse my ambitious list of resolutions down to allow for real life. And even if cooking, schooling, and running fell through, I was left with these final resolutions:
I want to Live Well (live life to the fullest), Live Right (be kind, thoughtful, and thankful), and Write. If all else fails, I want to do these three things and always keep life, love and passion in mind.
2012 will be a good year. Happy New Year everyone. I wish you all a happy and blessed one.