Happy New Year (one week late)!

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Happy New Year everyone! Seems weird that the date is now 2010 and oh how time is still flying on by. Was it just 10 years ago that the electronic world was going to come to a halt because anything computerized was not going to be able to handle the date change to 2000? What a wild New Year Eve that was for me 10 years ago. I was walking the streets of San Francisco with my dear friends Jerre and Selena along with 500,000 other people (at least). To say the least, it was crazy and so out of the norm of my typical celebration of New Year's Eve. This year was so typical for me, I really don't like being out in the crowds or driving after 12:00 with the drunks. My dear friend Dawn and I went to dinner at a new restaurant that we have wanted to try and then went to see Avatar in 3D. Was in the comfort of my own home by 10:30. Very nice (I was up way past the ball dropping in California time- I was not that huge of a party pooper).

I have come up with a list of New Year's Goals that I want to try to accomplish this year. Not resolutions, because to me making a resolution means that I need to correct something that has been incorrect or not right. There may be some truth to my goals about needing resolutions but not completely. So, I have goals this year. One of my lifetime sayings is, "If you aim for something, you will hit something, but, if you aim for nothing, you will hit anything". Here are my 2010 goals, in no particular order:

• Finish last year's read through the Bible in a year plan. Currently, I am about 3/4 of the way done. After I am done with that plan, I want to read through different New Testament books each month, the whole month through the same book.
• Read one leisure book a month (this will have to mean less TV and computer time).
• Memorize scripture
• Start a single gals monthly prayer time
• Get my WSI certification (water safety instruction).
• Keep going towards my weight goal, taking it nice and slow. I did not put on this weight overnight and I can't expect to take it off overnight.
• Order my creative wall expression for "We Are Family, All Of My Sisters and Me" and hang family photos on one of my hallway walls.
• Deep clean and organize my closet.
• Travel more, make specific time ahead of time to take trips including little day trips.
• Plan out my summer plans ahead of time, not every little detail but the big things.
• Join a Christian online dating site. I can not even begin to tell you how much I dislike online dating sites but God just might use this avenue to allow me to meet a Godly man.
• Take a photography class.
• Enter the county fair for a few photos, some of my herbs, maybe something from the garden and a jar of my apple sauce.
• Cook one recipe for family and/or friends and take one trip of a point of interest highlighted in each month's addition of Sunset Magazine. I would like to blog on each of these each month, possibly starting up a new blog called From Dawn Into The Sunset.
• Save $ into a specific bank account for fun money for purchases for my home.
• Hike all of the trails in Briones Regional Park with Suzanne (this actually needs to be completed by 11/11/10).
• Teach a canning class to the woman at my church.
• Have game nights at my home.
• Blog on what is growing in my garden, garden maintenance and what's at the farmer's market.
• Visit my beloved family in Coalinga often.
• Run a 5K, run/walk a 10K, and run/walk a half marathon.

Please feel free to ask me how I am doing of any of these goals at any point in time. God has programed me to need my cheerleaders along the way and accountability.