Is Christmas really over? Well, not in my heart of course. But everywhere else it is. I know this because I had leftover salmon for lunch and there are a bunch of cookies waiting for me at home. Those are the two main indications. I’m itching to get the Christmas stuff down because I got new candles from mom that I want to put out, but I’ll probably wait until next week for all that.
I had a fabulous Christmas this year. Everywhere I went, I kept bumping into good things. I gave gifts I loved. I got gifts I loved. I saw and talked to people I love. There were cookies, which I love. And now I’m back at work with some new technology in tow and an eye towards the new year.
My resolutions, then:
1) To finally get down the novel I’ve had swimming around my head for ages. I have pages of notes, two false starts, a playlist, concepts, characters, most of the plot. Believe it or not, I think I actually needed all that percolation to prepare. I’m ready now to write. Not-False Start #1, here we go.
2) To practice guitar again. I need the music to help counter words when I’m in the middle of writing something– it’s thinking without sentences, and it can be a real relief.
3) To finish: All the time travel stories in my anthology, the Goon Squad book, The Unnamed, Who will work at the Frog Hospital, The Imperfectionists, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dollhouse, some of Fringe, one Beth Moore book, my new Spurgeon devotional.
4) To start: Memorizing bible verses, embroidery, cooking more. (Becoming an old-timey housewife much? I’m sorry world, I can’t help where my interests lie.)
Mostly though? I’ll be spending most of 2011 trying to work on my novel. Pray for me, folks. In the meantime there will be HD tv channels to soothe my time travel addled brain.
Speaking of time travel, does time fly by or what? I feel like I just got married yesterday.
