Cat Tales: Miscellany and Mischief

January 1 (30DBC)

30DBC January 1 Prompt: What is the most fun you've had breaking a NY's resolution?

Hmmm. This is a really thought provoking question. Like most people, I tend to make a few resolutions around the new year. I have the best intentions of keeping them…until it's not so easy to keep them. Like not having dessert every single day, or organizing something that I've been putting off (ahem...all my winter clothes are still in a box and not in my closet like they're supposed to be).

But typically when I do break them, I don't intend to break them. I always INTEND to keep them perfectly--until I don't, and then I sit there and get mad because doggone it, I did so well for the first two weeks (or two days). I can't seem to think of a particular time that I had fun breaking one. I get too mad at myself to even enjoy "breaking the rules."

However, if there was a resolution I'd enjoy breaking, it would be because it was a stupid resolution in the first place--one that I shouldn't have made. Like a resolution that was too detail-oriented ("organize clothes by color", or "Write down every dream you can remember in one particular journal" or "Read books in alphabetical order"). I'd have fun scribbling down dreams on sticky notes or random loose-leaf paper, or just hanging my clothes next to what I normally wear together, or picking up whatever book I'm most excited about and reading it first.

Speaking of resolutions, since we're on the topic, I'd like to scribble down some of the ones that have been floating around in my brain for a while.

Read more books in 2017.

By read more, I mean taking out a big chunk of my TBR pile. I think I want to take on 50 this year. They can be fiction, devotional, non-fiction, whatever. I just need to start and finish them, and they must be NEW. No re-reads can count toward the 50.

Write 300 words a day.

It can be for blog posts, outlining, journaling, whatever. No emails or SM words. But 300 words. Every. Day. (That's one reason I'm drafting this response in gel pen in the backseat of my car on the way to Holy Mass).

Ride in the backseat more.

This is something more personal, and it relates to my travel anxiety. My husband wants us to start going to Holy Mass more often. Trouble is, the nearest Traditional Latin Mass is two hours from home and in another state. Back in November of '15, I had my first wreck which really shook me up. I wrecked because I was speeding and didn't know it (very subtle hill).

Because my husband has a lead foot, I often get super anxious when he's behind the wheel. But I found riding in the backseat to be a good way to block out most of the road and focus on other things (like writing ). So to save his poor ears from a lot of my nagging, I'd like to sit in the backseat whenever I'm not behind the wheel.

I also have a lot more project-specific goals related to my writing (which I might talk about on my site/WDC in a separate post). I know I want to finish another book this year and get more organized with my book-keeping (as I'm self-employed). There's a lot I am going to have to come up with an action plan for. But at least I'm not planning a wedding, moving twice, and publishing a book like I was in 2016 (at least I hope not).

I hope everyone has a great NYD! Start on those resolutions (or break a few!) Here's to a great year!



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