Since it’s coming up on the end of the year I’ve been taking a look at the past year and seeing what I could do in the coming year to make it better. I’ve decided to call this coming year – the year of living cautiously.
What I mean by living cautiously is, paying closer attention to my budget. I did a pretty good job this year, but I want to do better. I keep hearing we’re out of the recession but I personally haven’t felt it. So I will commit to really sticking to my budget. No straying from the budget unless it’s an emergency. And an emergency is sports related injury, car troubles. Not my yarn stash is getting low and I need to replenish.
I’m also calling this the year of cleaning up the WIPs (for all you non-knitters, that stand for Works in Progress). I’ve got at least 4 on the needles right now. The plan is to either frog (rip it all out) entire project or finish it. I will not have more than 2 projects on the needles at once. It sometimes help to have another project to work on when the first project stumps you. And while I’m on the knitting, I would like to start the one big project a month again. I know I have more than enough patterns that I want to do, and I should have enough yarn to at least knock out 2 of them.
And the last thing I’d like to do this coming year is to bring back the one race a month challenge. I got a little sidetracked when I did it last time. So hopefully this year will be a better year for challenging myself.
As for NaNoWriMo, well I’m waving the white flag. I’m done. I didn’t get to 50,000 words. I got to 30,000 and then I just couldn’t get anything else out. I may pick up where I left off after the New Year. But for now I’m happy with what I’ve done and maybe I’ll try again next year.
Santa dropped off an early Christmas present for me… my KitchenAid Mixer! I had no idea that Santa shopped via QVC. Thanks Santa! Next year I’ll be sure to whip up some cookies, bread, cake and a pie all using my KitchenAid mixer!
One last thing, I have a crush on a couple of the guys on Saturday Night Live.
Bobby Moynihan – He plays Guy Fieri and in the most recent episode of SNL he played Jake “the Snake” Roberts on What Up With That? sketch. He’s just genius.
Jason Sudeikis – He plays Joe Biden. One of my favorites is the Rear Window sketch they did recently or the Cloud Gazing sketch. His timing is spot on and his delivery is genius. Not to mention, in the “What Up With That?’ sketches, he’s one heck of a dancer. He’s the one in the red track suit.
Oh very impressive New Year’s resolutions. I like that very much. Last year I did not put anything on my resolutions about budge and I really really should this year.
I like your crafty resolutions though. A big project a month! Yummy. Hope that works out for you.