It’s almost 2008…
Kasia December 31st, 2007
…do you know what your resolutions are?
I stopped doing New Year’s resolutions years ago. I never kept them, always felt awful about it, and finally decided it was better just to skip ‘em. However, in the last six months or so I picked up the idea of doing monthly resolutions from Michelle at rosetta stone, and that’s been very helpful.
Last month I made resolutions in three areas, and was really only anywhere near good about keeping one of them (the face cleansing). I did make some progress on spending time with the Blessed Sacrament, which is good, but it was nowhere near the 15 minutes per working day I’d planned on. And the decluttering pretty much stopped dead early in December as the pre-Christmas madness really got underway. So…
I’m going to repeat the resolution about spending time with the Blessed Sacrament, but I’m going to start smaller: five minutes per working day. If I do more, great; but that gives me a minimal benchmark to start from.
I’m also going to resolve to pack my meals more. That will require a corollary resolution that I will be more diligent about grocery shopping. My goal: buy a maximum of one breakfast, one lunch, and one dinner out per work week.
That’s quite enough to be getting on with, I think.
Incidentally, I had made a sort of informal resolution to pare down my books to a certain level by the New Year. Specifically I wanted to be able to see all of the titles on the shelves. I’m not quite there yet, but I am extremely close, and there is still some space on the shelves (the books aren’t packed in as tightly as they could be), so I’m going to call it “close enough for jazz” and be pleased with myself for now. It’s unfortunate that I didn’t get the boxes of books to be donated all catalogued and down to the library for this tax year, but that’s OK; it’ll be a bonus in 2008.
Happy New Year to all, and may it be a joyful and peaceful one.
I guess we’ll have to recind your membership in Book Horders Anonymous
Oh, I wish I could say you could do that!!! I was shocked at some of the things I found. Worst of all, there were loads of books that I couldn’t quite bring myself to get rid of that I know darned well I ought to. ARGH!
Put it this way: when I was in seventh grade or so, I asked my father for a copy of all of Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales for Christmas. He got me a beautiful leather-bound copy with gilded-edge pages. The next year I asked for the Poems, and he got me a much less beautiful edition of the complete stories AND poems. I still have both, and I can’t seem to bring myself to get rid of either. I mean, the one is sooooo beautiful, but the other has the POEMS TOO! And the *worst* part is, I’m really not even that big a Poe fan!!!
Sigh. I am powerless over book-hoarding; my life has become unmanageable… (wry smile)