New Year's Feast

Happy New Year! To ring in 2013 we had a traditional dinner to bring us some folksy good-luck. Our spread included colcannon and black-eyed-peas to keep with tradition and pheasant because Ben is an excellent shot.

This year I will...

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Or I guess the title of this post should say, "This year I will attempt to", since I'm not too big into hating on myself for not keeping up resolutions. You do what you can, and life continues. Either way, here are the things I'll try and work on.

1. Be sure to turn out all the lights when going from room to room. Why is this so hard? Am I a 3rd grader?
2. Call my out of town friends more often, a duty at which I admittedly suck. Sorry, friends.
3. Bake more to share with others. You're welcome co-workers and those who work with my husband.
4. Try different food preparations regularly. I tend to roast or saute everything.
5. Take more home videos. I do video production for my day job, time to do it for my family.
6. Before taking on one new thing, remove myself from something in which I already participate.
7. Read more. For fun and not for work.
8. Judge others less. I'm happily imperfect and we're all in this together anyways.
9. Go out to the movies more often. I have seen roughly a dozen movies in a theater in the last ten years. Eight of them were Harry Potter.
10. Start with what I have before looking to acquire more. This applies to a few different areas.

So, there it is. Ten things I'm going to try and work on. Anything on your end?

A Toast to 2010

Most New Years Eve's are spent reflecting on the last 364 days of the year but 2010 is different for a very special reason. Instead of looking back this NYE, I'm looking forward to the many wonderful things that lie ahead in the second decade of 2000. After getting engaged in 2008 (which feels like just yesterday) we are tying the knot this year! 2010 seemed like so far away when we set the date and now it is here and I couldn't be more excited. Cheers to you, 2010.

I'm mostly looking forward to the moment that we are officially married but I'm anxiously awaiting the fact that weddings mean seeing friends and family you don't usually get to be around, more often than usual.

It will be a great year of preparation, celebration and happiness. So, here's to you 2009 and bring it on 2010.

Wishing everyone a wonderful New Year!