We don’t need no steenking resolutions!

Happy New Year to all of my 2.8 readers!

Today was the start of a new year, obviously. It’s one that I hope will be significantly better than the last because, well, frankly 2013 sucked. 2012 sucked too but not quite as hard as 2013. 2013 was fraught with joblessness, money worries, relationship woes, pet health scares… all that wonderful stuff that makes for the sort of stress that see a person bury under a doona and watch Youtube 19 hours a day…

Oh… wait…

Yeah, I did that.

Really.

2014 will be interesting as I have some big thoughts bouncing around in the old grey matter – some good, some bad, some kick-arse and some arse-kicker.

Since starting on my “weight loss journey” a few years ago, I’ve gotten over the whole idea of goals and resolutions. I’ve found that limiting myself to a goal means that the achievement of such overshadows the effort to get to that goal. There’s much to be proud of by trying and failing as much as there is to succeeding.

I may not have reached a particular weight goal last year but I’m sure as hell fitter and stronger for trying.

I may not have gone out and been as social as I would liked to last year (even though what I did do was a still a major step forward for a home-bly hermit such as myself) but I made a huge group of new, wonderful friends in the process.

I may not have taken as many photographs as I would have liked or published many new artworks but I attended workshops and networked with artistic people and garnered new inspiration for future work.

I may not have made as much jewellery as I would have liked to but I’ve learned a fair few new techniques through the generosity of those new friends I made too.

In terms of what I would like to do this year… I guess I could list it but that would just be putting unnecessary pressure on myself.

But I won’t lie and say that my list of “to-dos” doesn’t include losing enough weight to fit into some regular size 16 jeans I have sitting in the bottom of my wardrobe.

(It may also include blogging every day – but we’ll see how that goes.)