A New Year
Words can’t describe what this past year has been like for me. What a year. Sitting down last night I got to thinking that while I’ve never been much of a ‘new years resolution’ person I am indeed a list/goal person. So why the heck not this year? Some how I feel like if I post this it’ll be more legit….
I have decided to go for 2 catagories: Habits, and checklist. The first one being things that startng this year I want these all to be a more permanent part of my life. The second, well just things to actually accomplish.
Part I: Habits
1. Daily Devotions: at one point I had this down pat about a year ago, lasted 3 months and then I came back to the US of A and left that routine behind. I want that comfort back
2. Prayer: once again another habit I lost at some point. This christmas I realized that are a lot of people in my life that need someone to be a prayer warrior for them, and heck I need it myself. Get ready God, here it comes!
3. Eat one vegetable and fruit a day pretty straight forward right?
4. Tithe, to go with the theme, I need to give all my worries to God, including the financial ones and not think twice about giving back to God.
5. Stick to one form of a calendar this may not be hard for most people yet somehow I usually end up with about 5 different calendars and therefore not very good of keeping them all up to date. Still deciding if I want to give into the electronic (comp/phone) one which is very practical, yet there’s something so sentimental about having my trusting art one that I can look back and see just what I did and when with whatever thought was there.
6. Art journal once a week this was something my high school teacher ingrained in us, no matter what project you had, if you were in the midst of something or stuck with no ideas, you had to do an entry. I loved this and the 3 I have are some of my most precious belongings to me. Being an art major I think I’ve forgotten about the simple joys of doing art for arts sake and for my own. Not for a project, but for memories and a place to put them, paint them, draw or write them.
7. Start writing more either blog/tumble/or journal. I realize once again that’s a bit of my sanity that I forfeit this past year. And I wonder why I can’t make sense of my life some days….geez
8. Work out/do something active 5 times a week basically sweat enough to warrent a shower asap.
Part II: the Checklist
1. survive my Senior Show and not only survive but feel that I did a kickass job of it. It’s going to be a crazy 12 weeks to get there, but i’m optimistic that I can be on top of my schedule and lose my mind but feel proud of the end result.
2. Go to a new country wherever that may be, I want to see some place I haven’t before
3. Go up to Vancouver B.C. pretty sad that I’ve lived in Seattle the past 4 years and have yet to go back up there.
4. Graduate college at first I thought this was a funny one to put up because it doesn’t seem like a huge deal. Then I thought about the fact that for many people this is something that would never make a checklist. I had to step back and realize that this is no small resolution for some and it shouldn’t be for me.
5. Read one classic novel a month I’m a huge reader yet some how I’ve apparently missed out on some of the ‘greats’. I suppose I should figure out what some of these books are all about.
6. Go on a mission trip this needs to be a priority this year, there’s too many oppourtunities that I neglect because of thinking about my own schedule or financial state.
7. Write a letter once a week because let’s face it, everyone loves snail mail. There’s a lot of people that I think ‘oh, I should message/text/call them’ yet I never do for one excuse or another. That’s only 52 letters, I can do that.
8. Have my artwork up in a show, that’s not my Senior show, even if this is a coffee shop I’ll take it. I realize I’m always really nervous about people seeing my stuff. While confident in many things I lack confidence in my work and I don’t want that to stop me.
9. Make a t-shirt quilt/blanket this has been a goal since high school. I have lots a t-shirts that have meant a lot to me. I couldn’t wear them any more but I didn’t want to part with them because of what they meant to me. So i decided that I would cut them all up, saving my favorite part of the shirt, and then buy an awesome plain sweatshirt blanket and start sewing all these pieces of my shirts onto them. Hopefully I won’t complete it. What I mean is, I want this to be a project I start, use all that I have right now, and still have more space to add to it in the coming years. I’m quite excited about it, I just need to finally start….and learn to sew…
We shall see how this works out. I feel like it’s decently reasonable for me, or at least it should be. This is a new year, lots of things have changed and it’s time for me to strive to be a better me. It’s fascinating looking at something I wrote a year ago, about where I thought I could potentially be right now. It made me laugh and cry. So 2012, here goes nothing.
