New Year's Resolutions.

Here are mine, have you made yours?

1 Get the rest of my adipose tissue reduced. It is keeping me from being the beautiful butterfly even old age cannot erase. It's also keeping me from getting a lot of stuff done, like keeping a neat house or having enough people over for dinner to eat all the food I'm capable of creating in any 12 hour period. Company and dinner parties are too much fun to forgo (Fargo?) for the rest of the days left to my lifetime.

2.Practice spinning every day. If nothing else, it will remind me that owning a wheel after all these years of wanting a sheep farm in Scotland, or even a horse ranch in Montana, is a privilege. Of course that has nothing to do with sheep, but it was a Goal at one time. And, unless things have changed, both animals still are quadrupeds, and the rule is based on good, solid scientific longings.

3.Keep knitting those two big projects. Try to get some stitches in everyday, and maybe even an inch worth, each. Also, save and knit with the hair I pull out, trying to keep up the afore mentioned resolution. Picture frames are good projects for this hursuit employment.

4.Walk everyday for 20 minutes and then 10 minutes later. While I'm gasping for breath, keep the old feet shuffling along so that the nice new pedometer counts the steps. Waist not want not. er.. ya, I really meant that to be that way.

5.Keep sewing as I need clothing, and I want to make quilts again. As I get thinner, I will need to wrap up in these quilts, and pile more of them on the bed.

6. Play my ukulele everyday, learn new chords, tunings and riffs. Play the quitar to make sure I maintain the calloused incase I am overwhelmed by the whiney sounds of the Uke.

7.Keep getting rid of things no longer useful. This is relative and changes daily. But mostly it means to give away things that have no real purpose in my life anymore, like the gumball machine, which will go the the kids, or that banjo that I no longer want to play. S has the dibs on that or it would go off to ebay.

8.Stop staying so focused on negative news, but stay informed. I don't want to miss a single war that I can comment on bitterly. It is my reason for being a Quaker after all. Wars suck.

9.Finish off remnants of ceramics. Well, I'll try. But there are tea pots and sewing doll pin cushions in those molds, to say nothing of the Santa Clauses.

10.get all yarns organized, cataloged and photographed. This is pretty straight forward. I'll do this without having to make any quick two wheel left hand turns against traffic.

11.Take care of my garden, feed the little rooted ones. Since it is better to have live rooted ones rather than dead or rotten ones, this one is a straightforward goal. I adore my tiniest plants so not a single little succulent must fear it will not get my full attention. I like them. They are almost raised to the status of a Pet.

12.Use my vacuum all the time; instead of hating it, I will love it. It is my friend. The vacuum is a gift from the Goddess. How could I not recognise that fact all these years. The enemy of a house is dust and chaos, and the vacuum conquers the one while holding at bay the other. It is a machine of perfect and delicate balances of the natural forces in the entire Universe. We should be bowing down to the vacuum cleaner.

13. Drink more champagne and eat more chocolate. It's what helps when nothing else will.