Two Zero One One
Hello everyone! How were your holidays? Mine were great, filled with family and food and sinus congestion. But now that they're over (and I can breathe through my nose again), we can focus on what is really important.
Its 2011!
Granted, its only three days old, but I thought that was enough time to warrant a year-to-date round up of what I've learned in 2011:
has an awesome . So you don't have to wait for the cart to come around when you need another water! You just touch the screen, and Bam! Water. It's almost as amazing as, um, a faucet.
Taking down the tree is less labor intensive than putting it up. Vacuuming up all those needles, however…
And the most important thing I've learn in 2011…
Clean your computers. Else, when the TSA decides to swab it (because MacBooks look so very, very evil) it could come back as having dangerous dust particles on it, which causes the TSA to decide you look particularly nefarious, and give you a pat down. Which was nice.
Traditionally, the New Year is not a time for round up lists, but resolution lists. But resolutions are tricky: I have learned that if the resolution is too large, or if there are too many of them, you will give up altogether and quickly resort to your previously established behavioral patterns. So they have to be small things, some might even say silly things, which you CAN do without changing your life beyond recognition.
So I have decided on my two little resolutions, which will hopefully make my life a little better.
In 2011, I will:
Floss daily.
No, seriously. Flossing is not only going to make my dentist happy, but it's supposedly good for heart health (how, I don't know, but that's what they said on the TV. And the TV wouldn't lie to me.)
(Yes, I always floss while wearing bright red lipstick. Why do you ask?)
In 2011, I will also:
Write daily.
'Um, but you're a writer,' I can hear you saying. True, I am a writer. And I do write the majority of days. But there are days that I'm travelling, or days that I'm researching, or days that I have just sat in the WORST RUSH HOUR TRAFFIC EVER and I don't want to do anything but drink a glass of wine and go to bed. And the biggest lesson I have learned in 2010 is that the more those days pile up, the harder it is for me to get back into my writing. So, to make my life easier, I will write daily. Even if its just a page, or a paragraph. To keep my head in the game.
That said, I should probably get to it. That's all for today, happy January, happy 2011, and happy reading!
