Happy New Year, friends!
I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season filled with joy and laughter and family and friends and a metric shit-ton of cookies.
Because cookies are good.
But now it's day four into a BRAND NEW YEAR and many of you probably figured somewhere around mid-December that you had many, many very obvious, horrid, inexcusable, COMPLETELY INHUMAN flaws in your life that needed to be changed immediately in two weeks...
...after getting completely shit-faced the night before...
...and then spending the first day of the rest of your life horribly hungover.
GOOD. PLAN.
I stopped making serious New Year's resolutions a long time ago (though if you see below, I did set some very inconsequential ones, just for fun).
There's nothing worse than getting halfway through January and feeling like a total and complete failure because you missed the gym twice, or indulged in that cookie (did I mention that cookies are good?), or used four curse words in a two minute time span IN FRONT OF THE CHILDREN...and you said no more cursing! Or pasta! Or couch, er, napping!
Instead, I'm a big fan of being introspective, oh, pretty much all the time. I try to figure out what I'd like to change about my life, and start changing it when I think it's a problem...not when 300 million other people are trying the same thing (because good fucking luck getting stuff for salad from the grocery store on December 31. It will be GONE, I promise you).
That's right. I'm a New Year's Resolution HIPSTER.
All snark aside (seriously, I just want my damn bag of spinach), I'm glad you've set that NYR or goal and I really hope you accomplish it. But give yourself a break, okay? Break up those resolutions into manageable mini-goals and pat yourself on the back when you reach one. Celebrate the small successes.
And by all means, if you DO end up using the f-bomb 7 times more than you've decided to allow yourself for 2012, just remember that the world will not end. We'll all still be here. You will still be you, and it will be okay.
Anyway, here are MY not-too-serious-but-still-good-for-me goals of 2012
1. Take a yoga class once a week.
After the fourth or fifth time being encouraged to do so by both your chiropractor and your doctor, two professionals who have often uttered the phrase, "Oh my. These muscles are pretty...tense," it's probably not a bad idea to try it. Plus, it helps that my hair stylist is an instructor and she looks amaze-balls all the time. I thought it would be a great addition to my overall health and fitness whatnot.
2. Stop buying things in shades of gray.
Obviously, if I buy another gray sweater, the world will not end. But the fact is, I own a shit-ton of things in the color gray...including a couch and an entire bedding set and about 4,323 clothing items. I love it (it's only the best neutral EVAR)...but it's also trending toward boring. Bring on the color!
3. Another one that--in an effort to not scare the children--I will not share here...
...but rest assured, it's going to make me a much happier individual.
And that, folks, is the number one reason you should make a NYR in the first place. :)